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.
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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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Thursday, November 19, 2009
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6:00pm - 8:30pm
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Microsoft’s Lincoln Square Offices, Bellevue, WA
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700 Bellevue Way NE
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Bellevue, WA
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