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 - August 4, 2010 at 6pm

Clyde Johnson presents "Real-world file/print server migration"

Clyde will present an overview and some step-by-step of the entire process (at a large company).

On a Sunday afternoon, he migrated his file and print server from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 R2. He came in at 6am on Monday morning to resolve any issues. Two weeks later, none of the users have reported any issues (they don't even know a migration has occurred). And, by the way, it's now completely virtualized on VMware ESX and a Netapp storage area network (SAN).

Recommended Reading - Great Blogs

John Kelbley, Senior Technical Project Manager, Microsoft

Because it's everybody's business
John Kelbley's real life enterprise interop and administration

Dan Stolts, North East IT Pro Community Guy, Microsoft

Random Notes from the North East IT Pro Community Guy

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General Meeting Information
The group meets on the first Wednesday of the month at Microsoft in Waltham, Massachusetts at 6:00pm.

The actual address is as follows:
  201 Jones Road
  6th Floor MPR-A
  Waltham, MA 02451

Click here for directions.

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

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 Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
  (c) 2009 www.windowsboston.org