The international SMB MVP Community Roadshow is coming to Microsoft San Francisco office on Saturday, February 18^th, 2012 for a special all-day event – and you are invited!

This is your last chance to hear first-hand from your peers in the field how they are implementing the New SMB Stack from Microsoft and see it actually demo’d on current shipping HP Hardware. This is not a canned sales pitch, this is a live demo by some of the SMB MVP’s on real world scenarios they are deploying today.

Topics to be covered include:

·        Windows MultiPoint Server

·        HP SMB Server Hardware

·        SBS 2011 Standard/Premium/Essentials

·        Swing Migration

·        Best Practices

There will be plenty of time for questions and discussion on real-world application of technology important to the SMB space.

Breakfast and lunch are included – and this is a FREE event, but you must register to attend.  Attendance is strictly limited to 90 attendees.

Register at: http://mvptour2011.sbsmigration.com/event_selector.php?event_id=1 78

Meeting Agenda:

NetApp:
We will be welcoming Nathan Hall and Scott Werntz with NetApp to go over their storage solutions and products.

NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business breakthroughs. Our dedication to the principles of simplicity, innovation, and customer success has made us one of the fastest-growing storage and data management providers today.

Customers around the world choose us for our “go beyond” approach and broad portfolio of solutions for server-to-storage virtualization, business applications, data protection, and more. Our solutions and virtualized storage technologies can provide nonstop availability of critical business data and speed product development, so companies can deploy new capabilities with confidence and get to revenue faster than ever before. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.

Microsoft: BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite):
We will be having an overview of Microsoft’s BPOS offerings and the newly announced Microsoft Office 365. More details on this soon.

Microsoft: MDOP (Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack):
We will be having an overview of Microsoft’s MDOP technology suite by Jennelle Crothers. Jennelle will give an overview of what is in the desktop optimization pack, key features and benefits of each application to help you decide if they will be useful in your organization and feature improvements in several of the application since MDOP was first introduced.

As normal, we will have a Q&A plus general discussion about recent conferences and tech news announcements.

Presenters Bio’s:

Scott Werntz: Scott is a Virtualization Solutions Architect at NetApp and works for NetApp because he thinkings they have the Best Enterprise storage for Virtualized Environments!  He has worked at Abbot laboratories, PacBell (Before AT&T), Charles Schwab, BofA, Industrial Light and Magic, Inktomi, Ironport Systems, BT-INS, and TaTa Consultancy Services (TCS). He has been in IT for over 18 years and has been a Virtualization Architect for the last 4 years now with NetApp.

Jennelle Crothers: Jennelle is a Microsoft MVP in Windows Desktop Experience and a Sr. Network Administrator at the Conservation & Liquidation Office, in San Francisco. She maintains her blog at www.techbunny.com which covers a wide range of topics for IT Professionals and she is also on twitter.

Giveaway: Regular raffle items

REMINDER: RSVP so we know how much pizza to order! Food arrives between 5:30 and 6pm.

Location:
Microsoft, San Francisco Office
835 Market Street, Suite 700
San Francisco, CA 94103

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- Doug, Ed and Jennelle

Tuesday DECEMBER 2nd 2-5

835 Market Street, Suite 700
San Francisco, CA 94103

(This is is the same building as San Francisco State’s downtown campus, half a block from Nordstrom.)

From Market Street, enter the building at 835 Market Street, between 4th and 5th and take the elevator to the 7th floor. After 5:30pm or so a card key is required to access the 7th floor. Security should be at the desk and if you inform them you are there for the user group meeting they should badge you up in the elevator..

BART/MUNI – Use Powell Street BART/MUNI station. After exiting BART/MUNI (on the same level as the exit gates) find the entrance to the San Francisco Shopping Center Food Centre. There are two entrances, use the one on the 4th street side.) Take the escalator up the the street level of the Westfield shopping center and locate the elevators to go up to the 7th floor. If you are having trouble locating the office elevators go out to the street and enter at 835 Market.

Parking – There are two parking garages within 2 blocks. The one with the most parking is on Mission between 4th and 5th. The Mission Street Garage is across the street from the San Francisco Shopping Centre. It is easiest to exit the shopping centre on Market Street and re-enter at 835 Market then trying to find the hallway to the office elevators.