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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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
VitalSigns™ Program from Core Connex
Sign up for the VitalSigns™ program and receive Business Intelligence (BI) you can use:
• Set and track financial performance goals
• View trends in your business to see where adjustments are needed
• Compare your performance to industry benchmarks
• See forecasts based your company’s trends
• Receive business alerts to keep you focused
SMBTN Membership not required. Set up of Corelytics™ financial dashboard, trend analysis and goal setting session done with business advisor.
Contact bob@coreconnex.com or call 425-533-0773 to learn more about this valuable business resource.
VitalSigns™ program page: http://www.smbtn.org/vitalsigns.htm
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.
