Topic 1: Exchange 2010 SP3 / Exchange 2013 CU1 Update
Learn about some of the new features in Exchange 2010 SP3 and Exchange 2013 RTM CU1, as well as Exchange 2013?s new servicing model.

Topic 2: Deeper dive on Exchange 2013 Public Folders
Hear some more on Exchange 2013?s new public folder architecture, see a walk-through of migrating on-premises public folders from Exchange 2010 SP3 to Exchange 2013 CU1, and also what you may be able to expect when using public folders with Exchange Online.

Speaker: Brian Day, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Brian is a Sr. Program Manager on the Exchange Customer Adoption Team. The ExCAT team focuses on deep technical issues covering Exchange in order to develop customer guidance, support statements, and documentation as well as bringing real-world feedback to the development arm of Exchange for future consideration. Brian was once upon a time Exchange Architect for a large organization in Boston. He remains very active on the TechTips Listservs for both ExchangeServerBoston and WindowsBoston, for which we say Thanks!

Meeting Downloads

Exchange Presentations (Download PDF)

Topic: IT Audit Overview

Speaker: Michael Hammond, Director of IT Audit Services at O'Conner & Drew P.C.

Audits are never fun. But, Michael Hammond, Director of IT Audit Services at O?Connor & Drew P.C. will help to give insight into the IT Audit process, what can cause an Audit, how Auditor?s think, and what can make for good interaction between Auditor and Auditee.

Meeting sponsored by O'Conner & Drew, P.C.
Established in 1949, O'Connor & Drew, P.C. is one of the most well respected regional accounting firms in New England. They are proud to say that they have operated independently for over sixty years. They provide Tax, Accounting, Audit, and IT Assurance services to companies and individuals throughout the New England area.

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Surviving an IT Audit (Download PDF)

Topic 1: Microsoft Certifications discussion

Speaker: Clyde Johnson

Links:
   Microsoft Certification Overview
   Microsoft Virtual Academy
   Certification introduction and a VERY basic certificate

Topic 2: Windows 2012

Speaker: Clyde Johnson

We connected a windows 2012 workgroup server to our management console on the network, also discussed the new ability to update an OU with Group policies.

Meeting Downloads

Meeting Agenda (Download Powerpoint)
Windows Server 2012 Early Experts (Download Powerpoint)

Windows Server 2012 Load and Lab - Our primary focus was on installation and management, with a dose of Hyper-V. These were all day training events for the North East US (New England) Region.

Links:
   November 16, 2012 Event Highlights
   December 1, 2012 Event Highlights

Event Downloads

Lab Introduction (Download Powerpoint)
Loadfest Introduction (Download Powerpoint)
Virtualization Enhancements (Download Powerpoint)
Labs (Download Zip)
Errata (Download Word)

Topic 1: Microsoft IPAM - Planning, tracking, and managing the Internet Protocol address space used in a network

Topic 2: The UBCD - Assembles over 100 PC hardware diagnosis tools into one bootable CD to analyze and repair hard drives and boot problems

Speaker: Clyde Johnson

Meeting Downloads

Meeting Agenda (Download Powerpoint)
IPAM Presentation (Download Powerpoint)
UBCD Presentation (Download Powerpoint)

Topic 1: What is "SSD Caching" and can it hurt me?

Speaker: VeloBit

Solid State Drives can deliver high performance, but their prices still break the budget. SSD caching is a lower-cost method to improve application performance by taking advantage of fewer Solid State Drives to improve I/O. This session goes over SSD performance characteristics, best practices and risks of SSD deployment, as well as how SSD caching works and whether it can improve your performance.

Meeting Sponsor: VeloBit provides plug & play SSD caching software that dramatically accelerates applications at a remarkably low cost.

Meeting Downloads

Solid State Drives: Use, Performance, Caching, and More (Download PDF)

Topic 1: A Quick Look At The ?13 Previews? Exchange 2013, Outlook 2013, and Office 365.

Speaker: Lee Benjamin, ExchangeGuy Consulting

Topic 2: What Is Load-Balancing and Why Does Exchange Care?

Speaker: Kemp Technologies

Meeting Sponsor: Kemp Technologies leads the industry in driving the price/performance value proposition for application delivery and load balancing to levels that our customers can afford.

Topic: Discussing the top challenges enterprises are facing in managing Windows Servers from an operational, security and compliance perspective. With the ever increasing scrutiny and increase in regulation, managing these multi-faceted challenges requires careful attention. Ensuring proper controls and visibility is key to minimizing risk and optimizing efficiency in the Windows world.

Understanding the Who, What, Where and When for Windows Servers
- Configuration Management & Server Baselining ? Are your servers secure and compliant to your internal policies and best practices?
- Who has access to what, How did they get access, and What are they doing with it?

Speaker: Brett Fernicola, Director of R&D for STEALTHbits Technologies

Meeting Sponsor: STEALTHbits Technologies, Inc. provides Access Intelligence solutions for the Microsoft platform and unstructured data, addressing security, audit, compliance, and operational management requirements through a truly unified technology platform for some of the largest organizations in the world.

Clyde Johnson

Introducing Windows 2012

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Introducing Windows 2012 (Download PowerPoint)

Tim Mangan

The Top 15 Ways Windows Uses Caching to Improve Performance

Based on the book of the same name (to be released) this session will be a dive into understanding one particular technique to improve system performance: caching. Microsoft Operating Systems (desktop or server, physical or virtual) use caching and caching-like techniques in many different ways. In this session, Tim Mangan will reveal the top 15 ways Microsoft uses caching and demonstrate how some of those work. Tim will include some new research and new free tools he developed to expose these caching features that have never seen anywhere before.

Tim Mangan is the Owner of TMurgent Technologies LLP, which specializes in Microsoft App-V. Previously, Tim was with many software and hardware companies including Softricity, Sync Research, Tylink, Avanti Communications, Memotec, Teleglobe, Infinet, and ComputerVision. Somewhere in between, he did consulting work for the WAN side of a major US bank. At one point, he was President of the Frame Relay Forum, an international consortium of communication carriers, vendors, and users. Tim speaks at many conferences and has been awarded by Microsoft as a MVP for terminal services in 2007 and MVP for application virtualization in 2008 and since. He was also awarded Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) in 2010 and since. Tim is also currently President of Virtualization Group Boston, a user group in New England.

Meeting Downloads

The Top 15 Ways Windows Uses Caching to Improve Performance (Download PDF)

Lee Benjamin, ExchangeGuy

Exchange Server Service Packs 1 and 2

Clyde G. Johnson

Scripting 101 on Windows Powershell

Clyde G. Johnson has remodeled his scripting 101 presentation to focus on Windows Powershell. Including running commands in batch files and as scheduled tasks. I will also be demoing the powershell scriptomatic and the power of the Windows Powershell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE).

Topics will include:
- Accessing WMI
- Coloring Output, outputing to html and excel
- Piping and Pipelines
- Variables and Arrays
- Registry, File System and Active Directory Scripting

Meeting Downloads

Attacks on the Internet Trust Fabric (Download PDF)

Paul Thurrott

Paul shares his thoughts and insights on Windows 8.

Paul is the creator of Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows (www.winsupersite.com) and host of the Windows Weekly Podcast (www.twit.tv/ww).

Scott Rea, Sr. PKI Architect at DigiCert Inc.

SSL Certificate Authorities are under attack, what does that mean for the enterprise? DigiCert will present a summary of the recent attacks on CAs and Internet PKI's, some of the proposed remedies, and how upcoming changes could affect your Exchange deployments. How do you ensure that your own PKI trust chains are configured for maximum compatibility and security.

Scott Rea, a CISSP, is the VP of Government& Education Relations and the Sr. PKI Architect at DigiCert Inc. DigiCert is a premier internet trust service provider supporting nearly 50,000 government, education and Fortune 500 clients. Mr. Rea has performed application integration, and designed and implemented PKI for some of the largest and most well known trust communities based on that technology, including U.S. federal government and the International Grid Trust Federation. He received his MS from Queensland University of Technology in Information Security in March 1999, and has subsequently been working in his field of discipline as a PKI/Security consultant, expert and speaker.

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Attacks on the Internet Trust Fabric (Download PDF)

Jack Daniel and Clyde G. Johnson

"Cloud Basics and an Overview of Cloud Vendor Offerings"

Jack Daniel recently joined the product management team at Tenable Network Security, bringing more than 20 years of IT security expertise to bear. In addition to his position at Tenable, Daniel is co-Founder of Security Bsides and Director of the National Information Security Group (NAISG), a non-profit organization focused on promoting IT security awareness. Before joining the company, he served as Community Development Manager at Astaro AG, a Sophos company, where he grew Astaro's partner and customer, and IT and security communities. Jack is also Consiglieri of the Boston Area Windows Server User Group (BAWSUG).

Clyde Johnson is President of the Boston Area Windows Server User Group (BAWSUG) and MCITP: Enterprise Administrator with 26 years of Network / Systems administrator experience.

Meeting sponsored by Tenable Network Security (www.tenable.com)

Tenable Network Security provides enterprise-class solutions for continuous monitoring and visibility of vulnerabilities, configurations, user activity and system events that impact network security and compliance.

Tenable's award-winning products are used by many Global 2000 organizations for PCI auditing, federally mandated compliance testing, log collection and risk management. Tenable is the creator and manufacturer of the Nessus vulnerability scanner.

Meeting Downloads

Jack's presentation (Download Powerpoint)

Richard Knowles - Co-Founder - VP, Advanced Technology - FilePilot Software

"Copy 60 TB in 12 Hours? It's Been Done"

If you have tried RoboCopy and SecureCopy, but keep missing maintenance and cut over windows there is a better way to handle your next server migration, server to server DR set up, NAS upgrade, or any copy project. This detailed vendor briefing will highlight how "wire" speed and other hardware considerations are not typically the mitigating issue, but in fact it is the software tools being applied and how they handle specific technical issues that normally arise. The result is a software utility called FilePilot Copy from FilePilot Software that will be featured at the end of this presentation.

Richard has been a strategic leader of multiple engineering organizations for over 13 years. Technologies covered are number crunching, networking, security, web, OS internals, thin client, virtualization, streaming, storage, and real-time. The common threads that can be found in the products delivered are exceptional performance, visually intelligent to the user, and each solves a real problem. Prior to co-founding FilePilot, Richard was VP of Engineering at AutoVirt, a developer of virtualization software. Richard holds a BSEE from Northeastern and an MSCS degree from the University of Massachusetts.

Meeting Sponsored by FilePilot Software (www.filepilotsoftware.com)
All members that attend will be eligible to purchase a one year, unrestricted use site license of File Pilot Copy for just $1,500. At least two 30-day unrestricted site licenses will be raffled off as well (but anyone may download a free evaluation copy from the company's web site at www.filepilotsoftware.com).

Jack Daniel, Tenable Network Security (www.tenable.com)

"How to prepare your digital world for the traveling world"

We have a hard enough time trying to secure our systems when we are at home or in the office, venturing out into the world can be downright scary. Jack will provide tips and tricks for the savvy digital traveler to keep their systems and information safe when traveling abroad, or even in your own neighborhood. There are a variety of steps you can take, from causal to paranoid, you have to decide for yourself what is appropriate- this talk will help you do that.

Jack Daniel recently joined the product management team at Tenable Network Security, bringing more than 20 years of IT security expertise to bear. In addition to his position at Tenable, Daniel is co-Founder of Security Bsides and Director of the National Information Security Group (NAISG), a non-profit organization focused on promoting IT security awareness. Before joining the company, he served as Community Development Manager at Astaro AG, a Sophos company, where he grew Astaro's partner and customer, and IT and security communities.

Meeting Downloads

Slide presentation (Download PDF)

Scott Helmers, Harvard Computing Group (www.harvardcomputing.com)

Scott Helmers will be presenting several interesting network-related Visio add-ins, that make network discovery and documentation a lot easier.

Scott Helmers is Vice President of Product Planning and Support at the Harvard Computing Group (HCG), a software and consulting firm that assists organizations with understanding relevant technologies and making decisions about business applications and processes. Scott is a co-inventor of TaskMap, a Visio add-in that that allows anyone to document all of the important aspects of any business process. He is a Visio MVP and is the primary Visio expert at Experts-Exchange.com.

Meeting Downloads

Slide presentation (Download PDF)
Resources for using Visio to document your networks (Download PDF)
Whitepaper on documentation your network (Download PDF)

Kyle Donovan, Microsoft

Thinking about ?The Cloud?? The Microsoft Office 365 service offering combines the familiar Office desktop suite with the latest, cloud-based versions of Microsoft?s next-generation communications and collaboration services: Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online, and Microsoft Lync Online. These services work together seamlessly to provide the best productivity experience on PCs, phones, and browsers.

We?ll discuss what?s available in each service including:

• Exchange Online ? Not convinced moving everyone to the cloud is the right approach, how about a hybrid model?
• Lync Online ? Microsoft employees schedule 190,000 online meetings and 380,000 adhoc meetings per month ? Lync makes it happen
• SharePoint Online ? Interested in collaborating with external customers/partners ? SharePoint Online makes it easy
• We?ll also review what?s new in Office 365 vs. BPOS and Kyle will demonstrate what living in ?The Cloud? means for both Administrators and End Users

Kyle Donovan works at Microsoft as an Office 365 technology specialist. Using his passion for technology, Kyle helps Enterprise customers find the right solutions to solve their critical business problems. Prior to joining Microsoft, Kyle was a customer for 9 years working in IT development, infrastructure, and management roles building collaborative solutions. Kyle holds an MBA from Babson College and a Bachelor?s degree in Industrial Engineering & MIS from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

John Kelbley is a Unified Communications Specialist with Microsoft focused on helping State and Local government agencies increase productivity and reduce costs by using Exchange and Lync. Previous to John?s UC-focused role, John was a Technical Product Manager in the Windows Server Platform Strategy team where he focused on Virtualization and Open Source / interoperability. He blogs (not as frequently as he should) at http://blogs.technet.com/enterprise_admin.

Lync Server 2010 is the communication ?mortar between the bricks? for the Microsoft Office suite and server products, enabling Instant Messaging, Web Conferencing, telephony, video and presence. Come hear how you can deploy and use Lync to not only enhance end user productivity, but as a replacement for aging/expensive PBX and video conferencing systems.

Clyde has recently done an audit of his Windows 7 and Windows XP Group Policies and plans on sharing what he has learned and what he thinks ?best practices? are. Whether you are an enterprise administrator, working with much smaller domains, or even a home administrator, I think you will benefit from the discussions I hope to start.

Presentation - Clyde Johnson - "Windows 7 Group Policy Preferences" (Download PPTX)
Presentation - Clyde Johnson - "Windows 7 Group Policy" (Download PPTX)

Talbott Crowell is a solution architect with 30 years of experience developing software. He has consulted and trained employees at Microsoft, HP, Sun, Intel, Motorola, the US Military, Bank of America, Ernst and Young, Deloitte, Pfizer, and many other Fortune 500 firms on various technologies. Talbott began teaching as a technical trainer for IBM in the early 90?s, and a Java Instructor for Sun Education in the mid to late 90?s. In 2000, Talbott authored of one of the first courses on C# and conducted training to early adopters such as HP, Compaq, and Thompson Financial. Talbott has always had a special interest in pivotal languages such as Java, C#, and F#. Talbott is a co-founder of the New England F# User Group, Boston Area SharePoint User Group, and speaks regularly at community events. Talbott and his company ThirdM organizes and hosts SharePoint Saturday Boston, a free community event which occurs every 6 to 12 months.

Talbott's blog is at http://talbottcrowell.wordpress.com and his Twitter handle is @talbott

Jason will present exciting new information on their upcoming release of WhatsConnected. This Mapping and Discovery tool is part of the WhatsUp Gold IT Management Solution Family.

Charisse will be speaking on virus removal tips and techniques. Including a real world removal of the sasser virus.

Meeting sponsored by IPSWITCH (www.ipswitch.com)

Ipswitch makes software for businesses to manage networks, securely transfer files, and communicate via e-mail. Our products are designed to increase productivity for people and organizations. Ipswitch products save time and money by being easy to learn, use, support and maintain. Focusing on these priorities has helped us meet the needs of millions of customers around the world since 1991.

Dan Stolts, the local IT Pro Evangelist from Microsoft Corporation (http://blogs.technet.com/danstolts)

Join us in this session to learn how to ?Monitor? (and even manage) your critical infrastructure with the Management Packs for Operations Manager 2007 R2. We will take a look at how to deploy management packs and begin managing your File and Print server, Exchange, SharePoint, Active Directory and other critical infrastructure servers. You will learn how to keep your critical infrastructure humming by using Operations Manager 2007 R2. You will learn how to change from a reactionary mode to a proactive mode when it comes to your infrastructure. You will leave this session with a deeper understanding of what these powerful management packs can deliver and how they can meet your needs for monitoring and managing such critical applications in your business.

Speaker: Burt King

Burt is presently working on upgrading several hundred SQL Servers from SQL 2000 to 2005, has more than 10 years experience and still hasn't lost a single database.

Presentation - Burt King - "So You Don't Want to be a DBA?" (Download PDF) (Download PPTX)

Meeting sponsored by One Communications (www.onecommunications.com)

OneSolutions Hosted IP PBX

You may not have an enterprise budget. But you can still have an enterprise solution.

OneSolutions Hosted IP PBX is an award-winning, network-based integrated service that allows you to replace premise-based Key or PBX systems, while integrating your voice and data services in one convenient, cost-effective solution. It?s ideal for small- and medium-sized businesses with limited IT resources and budget that want the features and functionality of a powerful IP system?such as traditional calling features, Unified Messaging, and other advanced features?without the price tag that comes with it.

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).

"Visualizing Your Network - Featuring Visio 2010"

Prior to Visio 2007, Visio had interesting but hard-to-use data visualization capabilities. Visio 2007 and Visio 2010 radically improve the ways that Visio can represent data in Visio diagrams, whether that data resides in Excel, Access, SQL Server or a SharePoint list. The focus for this presentation is to show real world examples for visualizing business data about networks, servers and business processes. Along the way, we?ll explore some of the new features of Visio 2010 including lists and containers, live preview, Visio services, BPMN diagrams, business rules and SharePoint Workflow Designer integration.

Scott Helmers is Vice President of Product Planning and Support at the Harvard Computing Group (HCG), a software and consulting firm that assists organizations with understanding relevant technologies and making decisions about business applications and processes. Scott is a co-inventor of TaskMap, a Visio add-in that that allows anyone to document all of the important aspects of any business process. He is a Visio MVP and is the primary Visio expert at Experts-Exchange.com.

Scott has worked with clients in Afghanistan, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Jordan, Egypt, Ireland, Saudi Arabia, Canada and the United States on projects involving knowledge management, specification of new IT systems, process mapping and redesign, and technology training. He is the author of Data Communications: A Beginner's Guide to Concepts and Technology (Prentice-Hall) and has been an Adjunct Professor at both Northeastern and Boston Universities.

All lab materials are now available for download!

Introduction (PPTX)
Keynote (PPTX)
Viewfinity Suites Sponsor (PPTX)
Lab 0 - Table of Contents (DOCX)
Lab 1 - Creating the Environment (DOCX)
Lab 2 - Setting Up the DC (DOCX)
Lab 3 - Install and Configure DHCP (DOCX)
Lab 4 - Windows Deployment Services (DOCX)
Lab 5 - Creating a Deployment Share (DOCX)
Lab 6 - Using WDS to Install Windows7 (DOCX)
Lab 7 - Generate a Media Image (DOCX)
Lab 8 - Create a Bootable Device (DOCX)

Microsoft Lite Touch Deployment Demo (video)

Jack Daniel, Community Development Manager, Astaro Corporate (www.astaro.com)

"Astaro Update"

Jack will provide an update on what's new at Astaro and what's coming.

"A Bunch of Security Stuff"

As usual, Jack has a more topics than time.

Presentation - Jack Daniel - Astaro Update (Download PDF)
Presentation - Jack Daniel - A Bunch of Security Stuff (Download PDF)
Presentation - Tsahy Shapsa - Aprigo Ninja (Download PDF)

Meeting Co-Sponsored By Astaro (www.astaro.com)

Astaro simplifies network security. Small and medium-sized businesses in particular are able to shape a comfortable, yet more effective network environment through Astaro solutions, protecting against data theft, viruses, spyware and spam. Astaro's unique approach includes the integration of ten diverse security applications in a single appliance. Based on the proven quality of the Linux platform, Astaro integrates "Best of Breed" solutions through a combination of open source and leading commercial security products. This concept forged the most feature rich "all in one" appliance for network security on the market today. Astaro Security Gateway integrates network protection, web filtering and email security into an intuitive and easy to use, web based user interface.

Meeting Co-Sponsored By Aprigo (www.aprigo.com)

95% of the file servers in the world go unprotected from unauthorized access, those both on site as well as in the cloud. Aprigo has developed a first of kind, suite of unified data governance applications delivered in an easy to use SaaS. The benefits provided are:
1. Gaining visibility into violations of user access policies
2. Remediation of those data vulnerabilities
3. Continuous monitoring and receipt of alerts to any changes in those access policies
Business users have long enjoyed the benefits of SaaS. It?s time for IT professionals to do the same!

Clyde Johnson

"Windows7 Deployment Tips and Techniques"

Ever want to know how the Microsoft OS works? Join us as Tim Mangan takes us through how the kernel does its job, and gain insight into troubleshooting performance issues in your servers and Terminal Servers. This talk will specifically focus on CPU scheduling, Memory, and File System caching, both how the OS works and how it behaves when something is wrong.

John Kelbley, Senior Technical Project Manager, Microsoft

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

John did an impromptu 45 minutes on what he's working on and stories from the field.

Panel discussion on Exchange Migration

Tim Mangan of TMurgent Technologies (www.tmurgent.com)

"Inside the OS"

Ever want to know how the Microsoft OS works? Join us as Tim Mangan takes us through how the kernel does its job, and gain insight into troubleshooting performance issues in your servers and Terminal Servers. This talk will specifically focus on CPU scheduling, Memory, and File System caching, both how the OS works and how it behaves when something is wrong.

Presentation - Tim Mangan - Inside the OS (Download PDF) (Download PowerPoint PPTX)

Whats in your toolbox (Round 2)? Members discuss their favorite tools and utilities.

Data Robotics Inc - Drobo
Charisse Sebastian - Memory Wipers
Clyde Johnson - Tiny Time Tracker (http://sourceforge.net/projects/tinytimetracker), Dumpsec (http://www.systemtools.com/somarsoft)

Meeting Sponsored By Data Robotics Inc. (www.drobo.com)

Data Robotics - the makers of Drobo, self-managing storage, develops automated data storage products designed to ensure data is always protected and easy-to-manage.

Patrick Hynds (www.patrickhynds.com)

How to survive at IT in this depressed economy. Tips for preventing project failure and project specification for survival and profit.

Presentation - Patrick Hynds - How to Prevent Project Failure (Download PDF) (Download PowerPoint PPT)

Eric Harrison, Product Manager, Mimosa Systems (www.mimosasystems.com)

Archiving and Retention in Exchange 2010 enhance the overall information archiving and compliance landscape. New integration opportunities exist for ISV's. Exalted Product Manager will explore how Mimosa Systems sees the new integration possibilities and how they will build upon them. (www.mimosasystems.com/blog/Exchange2010)

Barbara Quinn, SE, Mimosa Systems (www.mimosasystems.com)

NearPoint is not longer just for Exchange. Mimosa Systems has added SharePoint and Files to their Exchange archiving, compliance, and discovery offerings. The new functionality is based on the same architecture Eric presented to the Exchange Server Boston User Group back in February 2005 (sneak preview before the product shipped). Barbara Quinn, SE Extraordinaire, will review and update us on these functions. Lots of demo is promised.

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

In depth look at Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Come with your questions and leave with the answers. We will look at Migrating from XP to Windows 7 (yes there is a path for upgrading) then we will look at an overview of the new features of Windows Server 2008 R2. With whatever time is left over, we will look “live” at what you want to see in these two great products.

Many thanks to Microsoft for sponsoring this event (food and many give-aways).

(2) $50 Best-Buy Gift Certificates

Security Current Events
Fresh from the summer security and hacker conferences in Las Vegas, Jack will present highlights from BlackHat, DefCon, and Security B-Sides. Topics will include the latest in threats, both real and theoretical, as well as tools and trends in information security.

Presentation - Jack Daniel - Security Current Events (Download PDF)
Audio - Clyde Johnson - Meeting Introductions and TechTips Live - Part 1 (Download MP3)
Audio - Clyde Johnson - Meeting Introductions and TechTips Live - Part 2 (Download MP3)
Audio - Jack Daniel - Session 1 (Download MP3)
Audio - Jack Daniel - Session 2 (Download MP3)
Audio - Jack Daniel - Session 3 (Download MP3)
Audio - Jack Daniel - Session 4 (Download MP3)

Many thanks to Ingle & Company for sponsoring this event. Visit their website at www.ingle-cpa.com.

(2) $50 Best-Buy Gift Certificates

With over 20 years experience in the messaging industry, Lee runs ExchangeGuy Consulting Services (www.exchangeguy.com), specializing in everything about Exchange including: migration and upgrade advice, technical writing and evaluation, product strategy, and training and courseware development. Lee is chairman of the largest Exchange user group in the world, Exchange ServerBoston (www.exchangeserverboston.org), Vice-President for BostonUserGroups (www.bostonusergroups.org), an umbrella organization of over 50 user groups in the New England Area, and on the Global Board of Culminis (www.culminis.com). Lee is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer, and a regular speaker at industry and vendor seminars and conferences such as Exchange Connections and TechEd.

Exchange 2010 Beta

The June 3rd Meeting of the Combined ExchangeServerBoston and WindowsBoston User Groups will be focused on Exchange 2010, so mark your calendars. We'll have an overview and demonstrations of course. Lee met with the product team on April 14th in Boston and the week before in Dallas and we will have an Exchange Team Product Manager with us on Wednesday, June 3rd, hopefully in person with Live Meeting as fallback.

The Exchange 2010 Beta is now available for download. Lots of very neat stuff in this version and we highly recommend taking a look and kicking the tires.

Audio - Clyde Johnson - Meeting Introductions and TechTips Live Part 1(Download MP3)
Audio - Clyde Johnson - Meeting Introductions and TechTips Live Part 2(Download MP3)
Audio - Lee Benjamin and Harold Wong - Part 1 (Download MP3)
Audio - Lee Benjamin and Harold Wong - Part 2 (Download MP3)
Audio - Lee Benjamin and Harold Wong - Part 3 (Download MP3)
Audio - Lee Benjamin - Part 1 (Download MP3)
Audio - Lee Benjamin Part 2 (Download MP3)

Audio - Clyde Johnson - Meeting Introductions and TechTips Live (Download MP3)
Audio - Paul Thurrott - Part 1 (Download MP3)
Audio - Paul Thurrott - Part 2 (Download MP3)
Audio - Paul Thurrott - Part 3 (Download MP3)
Audio - Paul Thurrott - Part 4 (Download MP3)

Presentation - Igor Moochnick - All About PowerShell (Download PDF) (Download PowerPoint 97-03) (Download PowerPoint 2007)
Audio - Clyde Johnson - Meeting Introductions and TechTips Live (Download MP3)
Audio - Igor Moochnick - Session 1 (Download MP3)
Audio - Igor Moochnick - Session 2 (Download MP3)
Audio - Igor Moochnick - Session 3 (Download MP3)

Jack Daniel - Session 1 (Download MP3)
Jack Daniel - Session 2 (Download MP3)

An Entire Security Portfolio at your Fingertips.
The Astaro product portfolio features easy-to-use "all-in-one" security gateways that enable IT managers to effectively protect their network from malicious Internet-based threats. Additional management tools support Astaros Gateway products with centralized management and reporting facilities.

Peter worked at Groove Networks prior to coming over to Microsoft as part of an acquisition. Over the last 22 years Peter has worked at Apollo, HP, Progress Software, Sybase, Centra, Groove and now Microsoft.

Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS)

Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS) delivers hosted communication and collaboration tools that features high availability, comprehensive security, and simplified IT management. Services in this suite include: Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Communications Online, and Office Live Meeting.

Thanks to Peter for a great presentation, both describing all the capabilities of BPOS plus the potential business opportunities for reselling the solution. (Download PowerPoint2007) or (Download PDF)

With over 20 years experience in the messaging industry, Lee runs ExchangeGuy Consulting Services (www.exchangeguy.com), specializing in everything about Exchange including: migration and upgrade advice, technical writing and evaluation, product strategy, and training and courseware development. Lee is chairman of the largest Exchange user group in the world, Exchange ServerBoston (www.exchangeserverboston.org), Vice-President for BostonUserGroups (www.bostonusergroups.org), an umbrella organization of over 50 user groups in the New England Area, and on the Global Board of Culminis (www.culminis.com). Lee is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer, and a regular speaker at industry and vendor seminars and conferences such as Exchange Connections and TechEd.

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2

Lee discusses the changed and new features of the just released OCS 2007 R2.

Clyde Johnson - Meeting Introductions and TechTips Live (Download MP3)
Lee Benjamin - Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 (Download MP3)

Clyde Johnson - Introductions (Download MP3)
Jack Daniel (Download MP3)
Ted Vahey (Download MP3)
Tim Callaghan (Download MP3)
Tim Mangan (Download MP3)