January 19, 2012 PSSBS Meeting CANCELED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER
December 15, 2011 PSSBS Meeting
Would like to thank Daniel Vaz and John Fazio with Datto for their presentation this evening, and for providing dinner for the group. For more information on Datto, check out their Website at http://www.dattobackup.com/ and their BDR info page at http://www.bdrfacts.com/.
November 17, 2011 PSSBS Meeting
Todd Wolpert – Senior Account Manager NorthWest Territory for Zenith RMM. Todd has spent the last 13 years in the technology sector with the last 5 years focused on account management of Managed Service Providers. During this time, he has managed over 1300 partners for Zenith InfoTech and now over 2300 partners for Zenith RMM.
Todd Wolpert and Derek Owen (Technical Account Manager NorthWest Territory for Zenith RMM), would like to discuss the newly acquired managed services line of business from Zenith InfoTech by Summit Partners. We will be able to field questions about the acquisition and discuss future plans for the solution. We look forward to meeting with everyone on November 17th.
Todd Wolpert | Senior Account Manager | ZenithRMM.com
Tel: 724.935.4211 | Fax : 866.4451420
Zenith will be providing dinner for the group. The meeting space and beverages graciously provided by Microsoft.
We will meet at our usual location, at Microsoft’s Lincoln Square offices in downtown Bellevue (700 Bellevue Way NE - Lincoln Square, Bellevue, WA 98004).
Park in the Lincoln Square garage and meet at the elevators on the first floor by 6 PM to head up to the meeting (take a ticket when you enter the garage, but parking will be free for the evening).
Meeting will be from 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
September 17, 2011 SMB MVP Community Roadshow
Join us at Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters for the “home-field” event of the SMB MVP Worldwide Roadshow. This is one you will not want to miss!
We’ve joined forces with our friends to the south in Portland, The Technology Wizards (www.technologywizards.com), to bring in nine Microsoft MVPs for two power-packed days, Friday in Portland, and Saturday in Redmond. For the Redmond event, arrive at 9 AM for coffee and pastries and a chance to mingle with the MVPs before our 10 AM event start time. If you’re feeling the need for travel, sign up for Portland and Redmond’s events and join us for the train ride Friday evening back to Seattle!
Presentations will cover:
SBS 2011 Essentials
SBS 2011 Standard & Premium Add-on
Windows MultiPoint Server 2011
Windows Storage Server 2008 R2
Migrations (Jeff Middleton is in the house!)
HP Servers & PCs
Expanded discussion and Q&A time!
Continental breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snacks will be provided. The Redmond event is sponsored by PSSBS, HP, Microsoft, and SBS Migration. Admission is free. Registration is limited to 125, so register today!
http://www.smbmvptour.com/register
Scheduled to present:
Steve Banks
Susan Bradley
Dana Epp
Cliff Galiher
Andy Goodman
Russ Grover
Jeff Middleton
Kevin Royalty
Charlie Russel
The event will be at Microsoft’s Redmond Campus - Redwest Building E Emerald Auditorium - 5600 148th Avenue N.E.REDMOND, WA 98052. This is the same building we were at for Mark Russinovich’s Zero Day Malware Cleaning with the Sysinternals Tools event in July.
We will have a person at the main entrance of Redwest E to direct you to the Emerald Auditorium. For Bing directions to Redwest E Building, use the following link: http://binged.it/olOevZ
This event replaces our September 15th meeting.
August 18, 2011 PSSBS Meeting
For this month’s meeting we will be our group doing a roundtable on the past month’s issues with Small Business Server (like the SharePoint Service Pack), what’s happening with our SMB MVP Roadshow Tour stop in Redmond next month on the 17th, SMB Nation 2011 in Las Vegas and the SMB Nation Third Tier pre-day event. We will have a drawing tonight for a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate compliments of Microsoft too!
Pizza is on the menu for this evening, so if you have a few bucks to contribute to the pizza fund, great, if not, you’re still welcome to join us and have a slice! The meeting space and beverages graciously provided by Microsoft.
We will meet at our usual location, at Microsoft’s Lincoln Square offices in downtown Bellevue (700 Bellevue Way NE - Lincoln Square, Bellevue, WA 98004).
Park in the Lincoln Square garage and meet at the elevators on the first floor by 6 PM to head up to the meeting (take a ticket when you enter the garage, but parking will be free for the evening).
Meeting will be from 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
