April 15, 2010 PSSBS Meeting
Taxes done yet? If not, file an extension and get over to Microsoft’s Lincoln Square offices for this month’s Puget Sound Small Business Server User Group Meeting.
Matt Beyer will be presenting this evening on behalf of Zenith Infotech. Matt builds Zenith’s partnership base within several states throughout the greater Pacific Northwest and Western Canada.
Zenith Infotech is an international company serving IT Service Providers worldwide. Their US-based headquarters is in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Zenith provides three separate and distinct services. A Managed Service Infrastructure, a Virtual Help Desk and a Business Continuity Solution. Zenith’s mission is to help IT Service Providers grow their business without increasing their overhead.
Thank you to Microsoft’s WSSG (WHS, SBS, EBS) and Windows Server teams for providing the room and beverages, and to Zenith for covering the cost of the pizza for tonight’s meeting!
Date: Thursday, April 15, 2010
Time: 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: Microsoft’s Lincoln Square Offices, Bellevue, WA
Street: 700 Bellevue Way NE
City/Town: Bellevue, WA
March 18, 2010 PSSBS Meeting
Nancy Williams, Vice President, Community Relations, with Cloud Services Depot, Inc. presenting Cloud Services Depot’s offerings.
About Nancy Williams -
●2004 Started at SMB Nation as first employee. Hired to ship books while finishing graduate school
●2006 Started working as independent contractor for MSPSN and SBSmigration.com
●2009 Hired as Vice President – Community Relations for Cloud Services Depot, formerly known as Securemycompany.com
Cloud Services Depot (www.cloudservicesdepot.com) is a wholesale distributor of Managed Services software and private-label services for Managed Services Providers (MSPs). In addition to providing IT Center powered by Kaseya, Cloud Services Depot provides private-label 24/7 Help Desk, Project and NOC services for Managed Services Providers. Cloud Services Depot’s combination of Managed Services software and private-label services offers MSPs a flexible, turnkey Managed Services solution without any minimum purchase or long-term commitments.
Cloud Services Depot is sponsoring the dinner, and Microsoft is providing the room and beverages.
Date: Thursday, March 18, 2010
Time: 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: Microsoft’s Lincoln Square Offices, Bellevue, WA
Street: 700 Bellevue Way NE
City/Town: Bellevue, WA
February 27, 2010 PSSBS SQL Saturday
Bring your lunch (usual soft drinks, coffee and juice will be provided) and join the Puget Sound Small Business Server User Group for a half-day (10 AM - 2 PM) of SQL training as it relates to Small Business Server environments. Mike England, Senior Database Administrator for Best Buy, will be presenting from 10 AM - 1 PM, with questions and answers from 1 PM - 2 PM. We will be meeting at our normal location at Microsoft’s offices in Lincoln Square in Bellevue, Washington - 700 Bellevue Way NE - Lincoln Square, Bellevue, WA 98004 (http://www.pssbs.org/about).
We will be collecting $20 a person at the event to compensate Mike for his time. There is a US Bank ATM on the first floor of Lincoln Square if you need to grab cash on your way. We will meet on the 1st floor of Lincoln Square and take the elevators up to the meeting room, so please be there by 9:45 AM. Call Steve at 206-255-3214 if you arrive late or have questions Saturday morning.
Steve Banks, SBS MVP
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February 18, 2010 PSSBS Meeting CANCELED
There will NOT be a meeting Thursday, February 18, 2010. Due to scheduling conflicts with the Microsoft 2010 MVP Summit, we are “moving” the meeting to Saturday, February 27, 2010. We will have a half-day SQL Server training session from 10 AM - 2 PM on 2/27, with more information to follow, so please check back here for location and agenda updates.
Thanks,
Steve Banks, SBS MVP
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January 21, 2010 PSSBS Monthly Meeting
The focus of this month’s meeting is the running of your SMB consulting practice. To start off the conversation, join us for a presentation by PSSBS member, Brenda Luper, with the Washington Branch of Franklin Computer Services.
The Franklin Moves division of Franklin Computer Services was started in 2001 when several of their clients were looking for project help during their move process. Franklin’s services helped facilitate the needed communication and tasks between IT, General Contractors, Facilities, and Employees and enabled their clients to achieve a well executed move.
Franklin Moves For Small Business is a service that Franklin Moves can provide to your client with the tools and services necessary to execute a successful, organized, cost-effective move, resulting in minimal downtime, enabling your clients employees to return to their primary tasks as quickly as possible. Franklin’s process involves your input to the plan so you remain the clients trusted advisor before, during and after the move.
Following Brenda’s presentation, we will be continuing the conversation in a roundtable between all members of the group, so bring your business questions and we’ll do the best to answer them for each other.
Meeting will be at our normal location in Microsoft’s Lincoln Square offices in Bellevue, WA. Pizza and beverages will be sponsored by the Microsoft SBS team thanks to Jim H., so be sure to thank him when you see him at the meeting!
December 17, 2009 PSSBS Monthly Meeting
Microsoft Exchange Team Veteran Scott Roberts will be at the PSSBS meeting tonight in Redmond!
Scott Roberts has 12+ years at Microsoft under his belt and is currently the Test Lead for the Exchange CXP [Sustained Engineering] team here in Redmond. For over 5 years, he has been on the Exchange CXP team and before that he was the tester for DSAccess and other Directory related tools. Scott was also responsible for manually testing IMAP/SMTP/POP3 for an older Microsoft Product called MCIS.
Scott lives in Redmond and has resided in Washington for over 12 years. He is looking to attend several of the Washington State user groups over the next year to answer any questions that may arise around servicing, tools, Microsoft Update, and other related areas so that he can ensure that the CXP team properly understands the customer scenarios that are out there.
If you are a user group leader in the northwest and would like to get connected with Scott for possible presentations, drop me a note with your email address and I’ll make sure it gets over to Scott. Possible topics he’ll consider for group meetings include:
1. Servicing via Microsoft Update, WSUS, SMS/Systems Center, 3rd Party
2. Silent install versus UI based install
3. Servicing Cluster Scenarios
4. Servicing E14 DAG Scenarios
5. E12 specific servicing pain points
6. E14 Rollup 1 experience
7. Servicing SBS
For those of you in the Bellevue area tonight, head on over to the Puget Sound Small Business Server User Group meeting in Lincoln Square. Check out http://www.pssbs.org/about/ for directions.
November 19, 2009 PSSBS Monthly Meeting
Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer Tool
Shawn will be giving an overview of the tool & demo at this month’s PSSBS meeting over at Lincoln Square.
Since Microsoft is presenting and already providing the room and beverages, bring a few bucks to chip in for pizza.
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September 17, 2009 PSSBS Meeting
Symform’s Praerit Garg will be presenting at this month’s Puget Sound Small Business Server meeting on Symform’sbackup solution that goes live next week. To quote what I heard another Symform beta partner say earlier in the week, “Every once in a while a technology comes along that makes your head spin and Symform is one of them. They have created a distributed cloud computing solution for online storage that is absolutely amazing and all so practical for our industry.”
You won’t want to miss this!
Steve
User Group Meeting April 2009
Join us this month for a special Microsoft sponsored event. April 16th, 6 PM at Microsoft’s Lincoln Square offices in Bellevue, WA (click here for address):
Looking at the issues, challenges, and industry from an IT Pro perspective, Thrive provides resources and pragmatic guidance to enable IT Pros to thrive in these challenging times. Thrive focuses on three pillars:
Career Care
· Anticipate and manage career change with guidance from career experts and IT leaders
· Connect with communities and peers to expand your network
Technical Competency
· Save money and time with Microsoft technologies you already own
· Enhance your technical skills to get ahead of the curve
Business and IT Alignment
· Be a more effective advocate for you and your team
· Align IT goals with your company’s business objectives
Presented by Steve Banks, Microsoft SBS-MVP. We will have give-away drawings for Microsoft provided MS Press books, as well as some “mystery prize” cards. Pizza will be sponsored by Microsoft (in addition to their normal sponsorship of the room and beverages).
Tying into the business focus on technology of tonight’s meeting, we will have a second presentation showcasing a new joint effort of CoreConnex and SMBTN:
Using Business Intelligence to Improve Performance
Presented by Bob Taylor – VitalSigns™ Program Manager
Bob will be discussing the importance of using BI to get a clearer picture of current trends and financial patterns in your business to improve profitability and long-term sustainability.
After these two presentations we will have a brief roundtable discussion.
