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

Sponsor: TBD

Technical Presentation:

Dave troubleshoots Exchange issues daily and has already conducted or assisted with more than 20 migrations to Exchange 2010, so he’d like to share the Top Five Most Common Migration-Blocking Issues that he encounters and try to answer any AD or Exchange architecture questions you might have.

Presenters Bio’s: Dave Shackelford is a consulting Exchange Server specialist. Among other things, he works for ThirdTier.net, has been an Exchange MVP for eight years, and has created SBS and Exchange courses for TrainSignal.

Giveaway: Regular raffle items

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

Location: BlankSpaces — 5405 Wilshire Blvd  Los Angeles, CA  90036 http://www.blankspaces.com/aboutus/map.php

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Meeting Agenda:

Sponsor: TBD
We will be having a TechDays event prior to the regular meeting time.

Technical Presentation: Todd and Mark will join us after TechDays to give short presentation and host an open discussion on where the Tech Industry and IT Pro jobs are headed.

Presenters Bio’s:

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

Meeting Agenda:

Sponsor: Citrix and AppSense
We will be welcoming Amir Zarsange with AppSense and Mark Vinokur with Citrix who will go over their products and how they can be leveraged together.

AppSense, the leading provider of user virtualization solutions for enterprises, makes physical and virtual desktop deployment possible by ensuring a seamless user experience across all delivery platforms. AppSense accelerates multi-platform desktop deployments by eliminating costly user management tools, enabling single-image application delivery, and ensuring users have the same experience from any desktop. AppSense technology is used around the world by companies such as JPMorgan Chase, United Airlines, RBS, the UK’s Department of Work and Pensions and TFL. Its technology alliance partners include Citrix, Microsoft, VMware and McAfee.
AppSense was founded in the UK and its development team is still based in Manchester, UK. Its corporate headquarters are now in New York, and it has additional offices in San Jose, Munich, Melbourne, Amsterdam, Paris and Oslo.

Citrix Systems was born from the idea of unlocking applications from datacenters and employees from the office – creating new ways for people and IT to work. Today, this is the promise of virtual computing, and Citrix is at the epicenter.

Technical Presentation: Microsoft System Center
We will be having Benny Ayalew, Senior Datacenter Technology Specialist with Microsoft doing a demo and walk through of System Center.

Presenters Bio’s:

Amir Zarsange is the Senior Solutions Engineer and Team lead for the West technical team at AppSense. He has over 15 years of experience in technology for companies such as AppSense, MokaFive, WebEx and Elemental Security. Within these experiences he has provided solutions in the SaaS, enterprise security and desktop virtualization space. He has helped build, design and sell virtual desktop solutions for large enterprises. He has extensive experience with VDI and security solutions, software and large deployments to fortune 100 companies. He has also been instrumental in building and helping design security and virtualization products to meet Enterprise needs.
Amir is a graduate from UCLA. When he is not spending time with his wife and 2 sons, ages 3 and 8, he is at the gym.

Mark Vinokur is a Systems Engineer with Citrix covering Enterprise accounts Head Quartered in the Bay Area.

Benny Ayalew is a Senior Datacenter Technology Specialist with Microsoft based in the Northwest District.

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

Meeting Agenda:

Sponsor: StorageCraft
We will be welcoming Lee Bender, Director of Sales Engineering & Training with StorageCraft who will be going over their shadow protect and ImageManager product. StorageCraft develops innovative disk-based backup, disaster recovery, system migration, data protection and security solutions for servers, desktops and laptops.

Technical Presentation: Microsoft Windows, Exchange and more
We will be having Chris Henley with Microsoft presenting on general Microsoft technologies why you should be using it and what you gain by using it. In addition, we will have Harold Wong with Microsoft presenting on Exchange.

Presenters Bio’s:

Lee Bender is the Director of Sales Engineering & Training for StorageCraft. Before joining StorageCraft Lee worked in a variety of IT Services and Management positions. He has spent more than 10 years working for storage industry leaders including Vinca, Legato and EMC. Lee has architected storage and disaster recovery solutions for Wachovia Banks, US Military and The US House of Representatives just to name a few. Lee holds a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Brigham Young University-Hawaii and is completing a Masters in Computer
Science from DePaul University.

Chris Henley is the author of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Administration Instant Reference by Sybex. Chris is an IT Professional Evangelist for Microsoft, has worked in IT for more than 15 years and specializes in client and server technologies. He is part of the Microsoft Technet team and handles the western US and speaks and presents at conferences all over the world.

Harold Wong is  an IT Professional Evangelist for Microsoft. He is part of the Microsoft Technet team and handles the western US and speaks and presents at conferences all over the world.

Giveaway/Raffle: Some small items

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

Location:
Quickstart
880 Apollo Street, Suite 200
El Segundo, CA 90245

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- Jessica and Joy