Meeting Agenda:

We will be hosting a general meeting. Doug Spindler and Sam Bowne will be presenting on some of the computer forensic items they have picked up recently. In addition, Doug will be talking about some  new features in Microsoft AD that are useful to IT Pros and some general news from TechEd.

Hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable 4th of July!

Fun stuff: 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:

We will be welcoming Mark Vinokur with Citrix who will be going over XenDesktop (and how it feeds into XenClient.) For those that have not been keeping up with Citrix and what they have been doing this will be an excellent chance to ask questions and see what they are doing.

Presenter: Mark Vinokur is a Systems Engineer covering Enterprise accounts Head Quartered in the Bay Area. He will cover how at Citrix, employees can simply subscribe to a service IT provides, and how IT can on the fly assemble the right desktop to the right user whenever.

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

Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook!

- Doug, Ed and Jennelle

Neustar has been kind enough to provide the slide decks from their presentations so I am making them available here.

Jennelle is at the Microsoft Management Summit 2010 this week, if you are attending please swing by the Microsoft booth area as she and several other Microsoft MVP’s will be helping there. She also has a great blog at http://www.techbunny.com/ – check it out.

TechNet Plus subscription discount, thanks to Chris Avis, Microsoft IT Pro Evangelist. Check out his blog at http://blogs.technet.com/chrisavis/archive/2010/04/02/new-discount-off er-for-technet-plus-direct-subscriptions.aspx – the offer gets you 25% off the list price.

We are asking our existing members to contact at least two IT professional colleagues you know and ask them to sign up as a member. Remember, membership is free and our IT Professional User Group has gotten high marks year after year from both our members, Microsoft and other sponsors. They can join at http://www.pacitpros.org/join-pacitpros/

- Ed

Meeting Agenda:

We will be welcoming Neustar® who will be presenting on two of their solutions, UltraDNS® and Webmetrics®. Neustar’s managed services support companies that rely on the Internet for critical processes and applications. Neustar®  UltraDNS® services power the DNS resolution of more than 30 million domains globally (www.ultradns.com). Neustar® Webmetrics® web performance monitoring and load testing services ensure online performance, competitive advantage, and a positive end-user experience (www.webmetrics.com).

Presenter: Alex Barajas is currently working as a Sales Engineer for Neustar, Inc.  Alex has worked for companies such as Microsoft, PeopleSoft and Novell in various technical sales and marketing roles.

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

Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook!

- Doug, Ed and Jennelle

Ed’s Windows 7 Deployment Overview slide deck is available here. The Microsoft Application Compatibility slide deck is available also.

Jennelle’s Remote Desktop Services slide deck presentation is available here. She also has a great blog at http://www.techbunny.com/ – check it out.

Please fill out a survey for both Ed and Jennelle’s presentations (yes, you can fill out the survey form twice – it is okay since you will submit listing different presenters) – the survey is located here.

For those that missed the TechNet Plus subscription discount – go to: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/default.aspx – The code is TNWIN7. That should get you 28% off but expires March 31, 2010. If you need a code after that date please tell us and we can get you an alternate code.

We will be having UltraDNS sponsoring the April 6th meeting. Don’t forget we will be having a special April 12th meeting on computer forensics. More details and costs for that special event will be posted shortly.

- Ed

Meeting Agenda:

Jennelle Crothers, Microsoft MVP in Desktop Experience will give an update on Remote Desktop Services.

Ed Horley, Microsoft MVP in Enterprise Security will present on Windows 7 Deployment and a brief overview of Microsoft’s Application Compatibility Toolkit.

Doug Spindler will be talking about the recent APCUG event he attended in Arizona plus his usual rantings and we will have a guest presenter Allen talking about some of the newer issues you may face with storing Health Care information of any kind within your organization.

Giveaway: Regular raffle items plus some extras that Ed and Jennelle brought back from the Microsoft MVP Summit

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

This event is a registered Microsoft Springboard STEP event – the survey for the event is here.

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

Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook!

- Doug, Ed and Jennelle