Windows Server 2003 End of Life is slowly creeping up on us. Are you ready to migrate those critical workloads that keep the lights on in your datacenters? Join Microsoft Sr. Technical Evangelist Joey Snow as he provides presentations and live demonstrations on how the new Windows Server 2008 R2 migration tools can simplify the migration of Windows Server roles. The session will include migrating file services, DNS and DHCP to Windows Server 2008 R2.

RSVP at meetup.com/pacitprosla

It’s 2012 and time to Virtualize.  Doug Spindler will be giving a live demo of Microsoft’s Hyper-V.  Tips, trick on how to get you virtualizing.  Bring your question to share with the group as Doug gives you a live demo.

RETAIN: E-mail and collaboration archiving system for MS Exchange and how to implement it in the cloud

For over 10 years, GWAVA http://gwava.com has been focused on providing solutions for e-mail and collaboration systems – providing best of breed archiving software for e-mail systems, anti-spam and anti-virus protection, backup and disaster recovery, and email system management.

Over 10 million end users use GWAVA products to complement their e-mail and collaboration systems. GWAVA has offices in the United States, Canada, Germany, Great Britain, South Africa and Australia. We support Microsoft, Novell, Research in Motion, and other enterprise infrastructure platforms.

Come join GWAVA’s senior engineer, Colin Bretagne, where he will present RETAIN, a best of breed archiving solution for MS Exchange, and soon Office 365 and live@edu

• Learn how to Retain works with Exchange, Office 365 and live@edu
• Prepare your organisation for litigation
• See how Retain can reduce your administrators load by allowing users to retrieve their own archive
• See how Retain implements seamlessly into your environment
• Learn how to reduce your storage needs for your Email system
• Learn how to archive Emails, Journal, Online archive and recoverable items
• Learn about all the components required to run Retain
• Learn how to manage your archive effectively

Colin Bretagne, Senior Engineer & Quality Analyst at GWAVA

Colin Bretagne is a Senior Engineer and Quality Assurance Analyst for GWAVA in Montreal. He has more than 20 years active experience in the computer industry. Before joining GWAVA, Colin implemented systems in over 15 countries for companies like The Ritz Hotel, TTPCom and Motorola for various solutions from Novell to Microsoft and large SANs. He has extensive experience in hardware and software including Novell clustering, HP SANs, NetWare, GroupWise, BorderManager, Microsoft Exchange and BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Colin has been involved with GWAVA and GWAVA-related products since 2003 and has implemented GWAVA solutions in very large environments (35000+ users). He is a GWAVA Certified Engineer, and has a BSC in Computer Science.

It’s open mike night at Pac IT Pros.  Have a question, have an IT tip or or IT related solution to share?  The mikes yours.  (No sales pitches.)  We are making this a general meeting to give you an opportunity to mingle with your fellow IT Professionals.