Archived content from past meetings and events
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May 2010
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"Visualizing Your Network - Featuring Visio 2010"
Prior to Visio 2007, Visio had interesting but hard-to-use data visualization capabilities. Visio 2007 and Visio 2010 radically improve the
ways that Visio can represent data in Visio diagrams, whether that data resides in Excel, Access, SQL Server or a SharePoint list. The focus
for this presentation is to show real world examples for visualizing business data about networks, servers and business processes. Along
the way, we?ll explore some of the new features of Visio 2010 including lists and containers, live preview, Visio services, BPMN diagrams,
business rules and SharePoint Workflow Designer integration.
Scott Helmers is Vice President of Product Planning and Support at the Harvard Computing Group (HCG), a software and consulting firm that assists
organizations with understanding relevant technologies and making decisions about business applications and processes. Scott is a co-inventor of
TaskMap, a Visio add-in that that allows anyone to document all of the important aspects of any business process. He is a Visio MVP and is the
primary Visio expert at Experts-Exchange.com.
Scott has worked with clients in Afghanistan, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Jordan, Egypt, Ireland, Saudi Arabia, Canada and the United States on
projects involving knowledge management, specification of new IT systems, process mapping and redesign, and technology training. He is the author
of Data Communications: A Beginner's Guide to Concepts and Technology (Prentice-Hall) and has been an Adjunct Professor at both Northeastern
and Boston Universities.
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April 2010
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Jack Daniel, Community Development Manager, Astaro Corporate (www.astaro.com)
"Astaro Update"
Jack will provide an update on what's new at Astaro and what's coming.
"A Bunch of Security Stuff"
As usual, Jack has a more topics than time.
Meeting Downloads
Presentation - Jack Daniel - Astaro Update (Download PDF)
Presentation - Jack Daniel - A Bunch of Security Stuff (Download PDF)
Presentation - Tsahy Shapsa - Aprigo Ninja (Download PDF)
Meeting Co-Sponsored By Astaro (www.astaro.com)
Astaro simplifies network security. Small and medium-sized businesses in particular are able to shape a comfortable, yet more effective
network environment through Astaro solutions, protecting against data theft, viruses, spyware and spam. Astaro's unique approach includes the
integration of ten diverse security applications in a single appliance. Based on the proven quality
of the Linux platform, Astaro integrates "Best of Breed" solutions through a combination of open source and leading commercial security
products. This concept forged the most feature rich "all in one" appliance for network security on the market today. Astaro Security Gateway
integrates network protection, web filtering and email security into an intuitive and easy to use, web based user interface.
Meeting Co-Sponsored By Aprigo (www.aprigo.com)
95% of the file servers in the world go unprotected from unauthorized access, those both on site as well as in the cloud.
Aprigo has developed a first of kind, suite of unified data governance applications delivered in an easy to use SaaS. The benefits provided are:
1. Gaining visibility into violations of user access policies
2. Remediation of those data vulnerabilities
3. Continuous monitoring and receipt of alerts to any changes in those access policies
Business users have long enjoyed the benefits of SaaS. It?s time for IT professionals to do the same!
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March 2010
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Clyde Johnson
"Windows7 Deployment Tips and Techniques"
Ever want to know how the Microsoft OS works? Join us as Tim Mangan takes us through how the kernel does its job, and gain insight into
troubleshooting performance issues in your servers and Terminal Servers. This talk will specifically focus on CPU scheduling, Memory,
and File System caching, both how the OS works and how it behaves when something is wrong.
John Kelbley, Senior Technical Project Manager, Microsoft
Because it's everybody's business
John Kelbley's real life enterprise interop and administration
John did an impromptu 45 minutes on what he's working on and stories from the field.
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February 2010 - Joint meeting with the Exchange User Group
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Panel discussion on Exchange Migration
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January 2010
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Tim Mangan of TMurgent Technologies (www.tmurgent.com)
"Inside the OS"
Ever want to know how the Microsoft OS works? Join us as Tim Mangan takes us through how the kernel does its job, and gain insight into
troubleshooting performance issues in your servers and Terminal Servers. This talk will specifically focus on CPU scheduling, Memory,
and File System caching, both how the OS works and how it behaves when something is wrong.
Meeting Downloads
Presentation - Tim Mangan - Inside the OS (Download PDF) (Download PowerPoint PPTX)
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December 2009
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Whats in your toolbox (Round 2)? Members discuss their favorite tools and utilities.
Data Robotics Inc - Drobo
Charisse Sebastian - Memory Wipers
Clyde Johnson - Tiny Time Tracker (http://sourceforge.net/projects/tinytimetracker), Dumpsec (http://www.systemtools.com/somarsoft)
Meeting Sponsored By Data Robotics Inc. (www.drobo.com)
Data Robotics - the makers of Drobo, self-managing storage, develops automated data storage products designed to ensure data is always protected and easy-to-manage.
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November 2009
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Patrick Hynds (www.patrickhynds.com)
How to survive at IT in this depressed economy. Tips for preventing project failure and project specification for survival and profit.
Meeting Downloads
Presentation - Patrick Hynds - How to Prevent Project Failure (Download PDF) (Download PowerPoint PPT)
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October 2009 - Joint meeting with the Exchange User Group
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Eric Harrison, Product Manager, Mimosa Systems (www.mimosasystems.com)
Archiving and Retention in Exchange 2010 enhance the overall information archiving and compliance landscape. New integration opportunities
exist for ISV's. Exalted Product Manager will explore how Mimosa Systems sees the new integration possibilities and how they will build upon
them. (www.mimosasystems.com/blog/Exchange2010)
Barbara Quinn, SE, Mimosa Systems (www.mimosasystems.com)
NearPoint is not longer just for Exchange. Mimosa Systems has added SharePoint and Files to their Exchange archiving, compliance, and discovery
offerings. The new functionality is based on the same architecture Eric presented to the Exchange Server Boston User Group back in February 2005
(sneak preview before the product shipped). Barbara Quinn, SE Extraordinaire, will review and update us on these functions. Lots of demo is
promised.
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September 2009
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Dan Stolts, IT Pro Community Champ, Microsoft
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
In depth look at Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Come with your questions and leave with the answers.
We will look at Migrating from XP to Windows 7 (yes there is a path for upgrading) then we will look at an overview of
the new features of Windows Server 2008 R2. With whatever time is left over, we will look “live” at what you want to
see in these two great products.
Meeting Sponsor - Microsoft
Many thanks to Microsoft for sponsoring this event (food and many give-aways).
Premium Member Raffle
(2) $50 Best-Buy Gift Certificates
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August 2009
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Jack Daniel
Security Current Events
Fresh from the summer security and hacker conferences in Las Vegas, Jack will present highlights from BlackHat, DefCon, and Security B-Sides.
Topics will include the latest in threats, both real and theoretical, as well as tools and trends in information security.
Meeting Downloads
Presentation - Jack Daniel - Security Current Events (Download PDF)
Audio - Clyde Johnson - Meeting Introductions and TechTips Live - Part 1 (Download MP3)
Audio - Clyde Johnson - Meeting Introductions and TechTips Live - Part 2 (Download MP3)
Audio - Jack Daniel - Session 1 (Download MP3)
Audio - Jack Daniel - Session 2 (Download MP3)
Audio - Jack Daniel - Session 3 (Download MP3)
Audio - Jack Daniel - Session 4 (Download MP3)
Meeting Sponsor - Ingle & Company, PC - Certified Public Accountants
Many thanks to Ingle & Company for sponsoring this event. Visit their website at www.ingle-cpa.com.
Premium Member Raffle
(2) $50 Best-Buy Gift Certificates
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June 2009 - Joint Meeting with Exchange Users Group
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Meeting Speaker - Lee Benjamin
With over 20 years experience in the messaging industry, Lee runs ExchangeGuy Consulting Services (www.exchangeguy.com), specializing in everything about
Exchange including: migration and upgrade advice, technical writing and evaluation, product strategy, and training and courseware development. Lee is chairman
of the largest Exchange user group in the world, Exchange ServerBoston (www.exchangeserverboston.org), Vice-President for BostonUserGroups (www.bostonusergroups.org),
an umbrella organization of over 50 user groups in the New England Area, and on the Global Board of Culminis (www.culminis.com). Lee is also a Microsoft Certified
Trainer, and a regular speaker at industry and vendor seminars and conferences such as Exchange Connections and TechEd.
Exchange 2010 Beta
The June 3rd Meeting of the Combined ExchangeServerBoston and WindowsBoston User Groups will be focused on Exchange 2010, so mark your calendars. We'll have an overview and demonstrations of course.
Lee met with the product team on April 14th in Boston and the
week before in Dallas and we will have an Exchange Team Product Manager with us on Wednesday, June 3rd, hopefully in person with Live Meeting as
fallback.
The Exchange 2010 Beta is now available for download. Lots of very neat stuff in this version and
we highly recommend taking a look and kicking the tires.
Meeting Downloads
Audio - Clyde Johnson - Meeting Introductions and TechTips Live Part 1(Download MP3)
Audio - Clyde Johnson - Meeting Introductions and TechTips Live Part 2(Download MP3)
Audio - Lee Benjamin and Harold Wong - Part 1 (Download MP3)
Audio - Lee Benjamin and Harold Wong - Part 2 (Download MP3)
Audio - Lee Benjamin and Harold Wong - Part 3 (Download MP3)
Audio - Lee Benjamin - Part 1 (Download MP3)
Audio - Lee Benjamin Part 2 (Download MP3)
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All Day Training Event on May 8th in Waltham, MA |
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REGISTRATION FOR THE TRACK 1 LABS IS NOW CLOSED
The Boston Area Windows Server User Group (www.windowsboston.org) is sponsoring an all day lecture and lab event for their members and to the local technology community.
The morning lectures will feature topics ranging from Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V, and securing the desktop using Windows 2008 group policy and the registry.
After a working lunch, we are offering two lab "tracks" lasting the rest of the day:
Track 1 - Clyde Johnson - Windows Server 2008, Group Policy, and the Registry.
Track 2 - Dan Stolts - Virtualization.
The cost of attending the morning lectures and lunch is $10 for BAWSUG Premium Members, $15 for others. If you wish to attend Clyde's labs (Track 1), the full day cost is $20 for BAWSUG Premium Members, $30 for others.
There is no additional charge to attend Dan's labs.
Event details and registration information available at www.windowsboston.org\events\windows_2008_loadfest3
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Many thanks to StarWind Software (www.starwindsoftware.com) for sponsoring this event.
StarWind "Turns any Windows Server into a reliable and powerful iSCSI SAN". Use StarWind iSCSI Target to build shared storage for VMware, Hyper-V or Server Clusters for SQL Server, Exchange and SharePoint.
StarWind develops an iSCSI SAN that is scalable, reliable and easy to manage. Our iSCSI Target software converts any Windows Server into a high-performance IP SAN.
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May 2009
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Meeting Speaker - Paul Thurrott (SuperSite for Windows @ www.winsupersite.com, Windows Weekly Podcast)
Paul shares his thoughts and insights on Windows 7.
Premium Member Raffle
Office 2007 Professional Edition (Retail Copy)
Meeting Downloads
Audio - Clyde Johnson - Meeting Introductions and TechTips Live (Download MP3)
Audio - Paul Thurrott - Part 1 (Download MP3)
Audio - Paul Thurrott - Part 2 (Download MP3)
Audio - Paul Thurrott - Part 3 (Download MP3)
Audio - Paul Thurrott - Part 4 (Download MP3)
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April 2009
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Meeting Speaker - Igor Moochnick - All About Powershell
Igor has over 18 years of software development experience in leading and development of cross-platform and cross-technology (.NET, JAVA)
web-service-oriented Enterprise Systems. Speaker for multiple code camps and events and a big supporter of the usergroup community.
Owner of IgorShare Consulting company (www.igorshare.com). Visit his
blog at www.igorshare.com/blog.
Raffle Sponsor - SAPIEN Technologies (www.sapien.com, www.primaltools.com)
SAPIEN Technologies is out to make Windows administrative tasks — whether you're scripting, working with databases,
working with XML, or related technologies — simpler.
We offer more than just software: We give you more than 20 years of experience, powerful software applications,
authoritative books, supportive communities, and real-world training. It's everything you need to learn new technologies,
advance your skills in existing technologies, and work more effectively and more efficiently.
SAPIEN has provided a stack of Windows Scripting and Windows Powershell books for our raffle.
Raffle Sponsor - Microsoft (www.microsoft.com)
Microsoft has provided a number of books for our raffle.
Premium Member Raffle
Windows Vista Ultimate Edition (Retail Copy)
Meeting Downloads
Presentation - Igor Moochnick - All About PowerShell (Download PDF) (Download PowerPoint 97-03) (Download PowerPoint 2007)
Audio - Clyde Johnson - Meeting Introductions and TechTips Live (Download MP3)
Audio - Igor Moochnick - Session 1 (Download MP3)
Audio - Igor Moochnick - Session 2 (Download MP3)
Audio - Igor Moochnick - Session 3 (Download MP3)
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March 2009
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Jack Daniel
Jack presents what's new in the Astaro product line as well as a handful of current security topics.
Current Security Topics Presentation (Download PowerPoint2007)
Astaro Presentation (Download PowerPoint2007)
Clyde Johnson
Windows 7, hands on first impressions.
Windows 7 Hands On (Download PowerPoint)
Audio Recordings from the Meeting
Jack Daniel - Session 1 (Download MP3)
Jack Daniel - Session 2 (Download MP3)
Meeting Sponsored by Astaro
An Entire Security Portfolio at your Fingertips.
The Astaro product portfolio features easy-to-use "all-in-one" security gateways that enable IT managers to effectively protect
their network from malicious Internet-based threats. Additional management tools support Astaros Gateway products with centralized
management and reporting facilities.
Premium Member Raffle: $100 Best Buy gift certificate!
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February 2009 - Joint Meeting with Exchange Users Group
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Peter Duffey, Microsoft
Peter worked at Groove Networks prior to coming over to Microsoft as part of an acquisition. Over the last 22 years
Peter has worked at Apollo, HP, Progress Software, Sybase, Centra, Groove and now Microsoft.
Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS)
Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS) delivers hosted communication and collaboration tools that features high availability,
comprehensive security, and simplified IT management. Services in this suite include: Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Communications Online,
and Office Live Meeting.
Thanks to Peter for a great presentation, both describing all the capabilities of BPOS plus the potential business opportunities for reselling the solution.
(Download PowerPoint2007) or
(Download PDF)
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Lee Benjamin, the ExchangeGuy
With over 20 years experience in the messaging industry, Lee runs ExchangeGuy Consulting Services (www.exchangeguy.com), specializing in everything
about Exchange including: migration and upgrade advice, technical writing and evaluation, product strategy, and training and courseware development.
Lee is chairman of the largest Exchange user group in the world, Exchange ServerBoston (www.exchangeserverboston.org), Vice-President for BostonUserGroups
(www.bostonusergroups.org), an umbrella organization of over 50 user groups in the New England Area, and on the Global Board of Culminis (www.culminis.com).
Lee is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer, and a regular speaker at industry and vendor seminars and conferences such as Exchange Connections and TechEd.
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2
Lee discusses the changed and new features of the just released OCS 2007 R2.
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Audio Recordings from the Meeting
Clyde Johnson - Meeting Introductions and TechTips Live (Download MP3)
Lee Benjamin - Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 (Download MP3)
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Premium Member Raffle
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This months Premium Member Raffle is a 1 year Safari Library subscription, courtesy of O'Reilly.
The Safari Library subscription provides online access to all O'Reilly books, as well as books from many other publishers. It also includes video access from many
popular video training providers, including Lynda.com. This is a $472.89 value!
For more inforation on Safari Books Online, goto www.safaribooksonline.com.
Remember that you must be present to win and you cannot win more than once in a 3 month period. If you'd like to become a premium member click here for details.
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January 2009
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Sessions 1 and 2 - Must Have Utilities, What's in Your Toolbox?
Looking for tools and utilities to make your life easier? (you should be)
Members of our group will each present some of their favorite tools in a 25 minute time slot. After the meeting we will be adding a "BAWSUG Recommended"
section to the website to help our members save time on the job.
Tim Callaghan will present:
Vice-Versa, commercial, www.tgrmn.com
Utility for file synchronization, replication, backup and comparison.
Xobni, free, www.xobni.com
Microsoft Outlook add-on for instant email search, email analytics, social network discovery and more cool features.
CCleaner, free, www.piriform.com/products
Utility to clean up and optimize your windows computers. CCleaner safely removes temporary files and privacy information from Internet Explorer,
Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari. It also provides a registry cleaner and is able to remove temporary files from many popular applications.
Defraggler, free, www.piriform.com/products
Defragmentation tool that differs from other offerings in that you can select which files to defragment, as opposed to defragmenting the entire disk.
Jack Daniel will present:
Nmap, free, www.nmap.org
Security scanner for network exploration and hacking.
Ted Vahey will present:
Process Explorer, free, technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
Utility to display information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.
Other Utilities, free
Ted will also discuss a handful of useful tools that he's collected over the years.
Tim Mangan will present:
TMNetSim, free, www.tmurgent.com/Tools.aspx
Tim built this tool for use in his labs and has proved quite popular. It is like a bad WAN on a PC. You can control latency and loss, and inject jitter on
the connection to better simulate a shared WAN. It works on one protocol at a time to aid in the investigation of performance implications.
PingTool, free, www.tmurgent.com/Tools.aspx
Tool to throw packets around. Tim developed this tool when he was working for router vendors and needed to stress things.
It does more than just ICMP, and improperly used it can be a security risk.
Audio Recordings from the Meeting
Clyde Johnson - Introductions (Download MP3)
Jack Daniel (Download MP3)
Ted Vahey (Download MP3)
Tim Callaghan (Download MP3)
Tim Mangan (Download MP3)
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Premium Member Raffle
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This months Premium Member Raffle is a $100 Best Buy Gift Card. Remember that you must be present to win and you cannot win more than once in a 3 month period. If you'd like to become a premium member click here for details.
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December 2008
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Meeting presentations available for download:
- Cyber-Ark : Reasons for Password Management (Download PowerPoint Presentation)
- Cyber-Ark : Enterprise Password Value Overview (Download PowerPoint Presentation)
- Cyber-Ark : Enterprise Password Vault Demo (Download Executable)
- Marathon Technologies : Marathon Overview (Download PowerPoint Presentation)
Session 1 - Managing Identity and Security presented by Cyber-Ark Software (www.cyber-ark.com)
Cyber-Ark's Enterprise Password Vault™ enables organizations to secure, manage, automatically change and log all activities associated with all types of
Privileged Passwords such as administrator on a Windows server, Root on a UNIX server, Cisco Enable on a Cisco device, as well as embedded passwords found
in applications and scripts.
The presentation will demonstrate how Cyber-ark Security software integrates with LDAP to Manage & update privileged user & administrative passwords.
The demonstration will show a Virtual Environment configured with an AD / IIS Server, Windows Server Hardened with Cyber-Ark Server, and an XP computer.
Cyber-Ark has developed solution sets for securing sensitive information within the following markets:
- Financial Services
- Pharmaceutical
- PCI Regulations
- SOX Regulations
- and more
Cyber-Ark supports Strategic Partners and Reseller Partners.
Session 2 - Thinking Outside of the Box - Protecting non-cluster aware applications. Presented by Marathon Technologies (www.marathontechnologies.com)
During this interactive and white board focused educational presentation, we will discuss best practice high availability and disaster recovery
options that are available to you when you are in need of protecting non-cluster aware applications in your Microsoft applications
environment. We will also talk about SMS Systems Center, SharePoint Index Server and will additionally provide a demo showing you some
"out-of-the-box" methods for protecting non-cluster aware applications.
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Premium Member Raffle
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This months Premium Member Raffle is an XBox 360 Pro 60GB. Remember that you must be present to win and you cannot win more than once in a 3 month period. If you'd like to become a premium member click here for details.
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November 2008
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Scripting 101 for Administrators - Clyde Johnson and Ted Vahey
Clyde presents an overview of basic scripting techniques and methods at the command prompt, in VB Script, and using Visual Basic for Applications in Excel. (Download PowerPoint Presentation)
Ted presents scripting using Microsoft's PowerShell. (Download PowerPoint Presentation)
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Raffle Sponsors
Sapien Technologies (www.sapien.com)
Primal Script Enterprise Resource Kit; University VBScript on Disc set; Scripting Answers PowerShell Class on Disc set; ADSI Scripting TFM; Advanced VBScript for Windows Administrators;
2 copies of Windows Administration Automation Toolkit; Exchange Management Shell TFM; Windows Server 2008: Whats New/Whats Changed; Windows PowerShell TFM 2nd Edition; and a bunch of other Sapien Goodies!
Idera (www.idera.com)
1 license of PowerShell Plus Professional Edition
Special Operations Software (www.specopssoft.com)
1 license of Specops Remote Admin
/n Software (www.nsoftware.com)
Red Carpet Subscription
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Premium Member Raffle
8GB Microsoft Zune
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October 2008 - Regular Monthly Meeting
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Windows 7 - Paul Thurrott
Paul discusses Windows 7. Paul is the founder of Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows at www.winsupersite.com, news editor for Windows IT Pro, and co-host of the "Windows Weekly" Podcast.
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Premium Member Raffle
8GB Apple iPod
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October 2008 - Windows Server 2008 Training Part 2
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Windows Server 2008 Training Part 2
A follow up on our April 2008 Windows Server 2008 Training Event
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Event Sponsor
Our thanks to Astaro (www.astaro.com) for sponsoring lunch.
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September 2008
Dan Stolts (Microsoft IT Pro Evangelist) - Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 (PowerPoint07)
Lee Benjamin (The ExchangeGuy) - Exchange 2007 Certificates
June 2008
Tim Mangan (www.tmurgent.com) - An overview of server, desktop, application and presentation virtualization (PowerPoint)
Pano Logic (www.panologic.com) - Desktop Virtualization (PowerPoint)
Meeting Sponsored by Pano Logic
May 2008
Paul Parisi (DNSstuff) - DNS Health and DNSstuff (PowerPoint)
Juan Sanabria (Microsoft) - Forefront Security Story, Breadth and Depth
Meeting Sponsored by Mimosa Systems
April 2008 - Windows Server 2008 Training
Click to view the training agenda or to access the errata information
April 2008 - Regular Monthly Meeting
John Kelbley (Microsoft) - Windows Server 2008 and the Microsoft Hypervisor (Hyper-V) (PowerPoint)
Meeting Sponsored by
Sanbolic,
GroupLogic and
All Systems Integration
March 2008
Anthony A. Pino (Harvard College) - Understanding the expectations of tomorrow's user base (PowerPoint)
Steve Tassinari (Varonis Systems) - Fix access control on your file servers once and for all (PowerPoint)
Meeting Sponsored by Varonis Systems
February 2008
Lee Benjamin (ExchangeGuy and Exchange Chairperson) - Exchange and Certificates (web link)
Lee Benjamin (ExchangeGuy and Exchange Chairperson) - Introduction to Unified Communications (web link)
Meeting Sponsored by MXLogic
January 2008
IPSwitch - Network Monitoring with WhatsUp Gold (www.whatsupgold.com)
Clyde Johnson - Introduction to Group Polocies (pdf)(powerpoint)
Meeting Sponsored by IPSwitch
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