Boston Area Windows Server User Group
Background Info

Clyde Johnson
User Group President
chair@windowsboston.org

Clyde Johnson is the lead person to coordinate future topics and speakers.  Once a topics list is drafted, the Steering Committee meets monthly to finalize the group's direction and confirmed topics.


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Next Meeting : May 1, 2013 at 6pm

Note the venue change, this month's meeting is at the Microsoft Sales Office at 1 Cambridge Center.
Please use the entrance on the side of the building across from Rebecca’s café and near Chipotle’s.


Topic: Dell OpenManage Essentials and some command line management (WS-MAN)

Speaker: Dave Pavone, On-Site System Engineer for Dell Corporation


General Meeting Information
The group meets on the first Wednesday of the month at 6:00pm at 1 Cambridge Center in Cambridge, MA. Please use the entrance on the side of the building across from Rebecca’s café and near Chipotle’s.

The actual address is as follows:
  1 Cambridge Center Center
  Cambridge, MA 02142

Click here for directions.

Meetings are free to attend; pizza and beverages are provided at the meeting.

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John Kelbley, Senior Technical Project Manager, Microsoft

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Goals of the group
The Boston Area Windows Server User Group (BAWSUG) helps IT Managers and Administrators deploy Windows Server Technologies on the Internet and within the enterprise, specifically:

  » improve our core technology disciplines in Windows NT, 2000, 2003 and 2008 Servers
  » expose members to technologies and best practices not normally found in our day-to-day jobs
  » invite speakers from both Microsoft and non-Microsoft resources
  » incubate and encourage a great peer-peer support vehicle
  » provide a forum for selective third-party Windows NT/XP/2000/2003/2008 products
  » get to know your peers and have some fun at the monthly pizza & schmooze session
Website Information
  » hosted at GoDaddy (www.godaddy.com)
  » developed using a combination of ASP (vbscript) and ASP.NET (c#), running under IIS6
  » backend is Microsoft SQL Server 2005
  » maintained in and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
  (c) 2009 www.windowsboston.org