Pacific IT Professionals » Meetings http://www.pacitpros.org Sat, 14 Aug 2010 01:58:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Sept 7th – Compellent and Microsoft OCS http://www.pacitpros.org/sept-7th-compellent-and-microsoft-ocs/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.pacitpros.org/sept-7th-compellent-and-microsoft-ocs/#comments Sat, 14 Aug 2010 01:57:50 +0000 ehorley http://www.pacitpros.org/?p=566 Meeting Date and Time: Sept 7th, 2010 – 6:30pm

Meeting Agenda:

We will be welcoming John Mallory with Compellent who will be going over their Fluid data storage solutions. In addition, we will be having Wendy McCall presenting on Microsoft’s OCS solution, what is coming out and some of the exciting things you can do with it.

Presenter: Bio’s to be posted shortly.

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

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Meeting Agenda:

We will be hosting a general meeting. PacITPros member Sam Bowne will be presenting a recap of items that came out at Defcon and Blackhat. In addition, Doug will be talking about security items related to the recent Microsoft Zero day exploits that have come out.

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

]]> http://www.pacitpros.org/august-3-general-meeting/feed/ 0 July 6th – General Meeting http://www.pacitpros.org/july-6th-general-meeting/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.pacitpros.org/july-6th-general-meeting/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:18:31 +0000 ehorley http://www.pacitpros.org/?p=558 Meeting Date and Time: July 6th, 2010 – 6:30pm

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

Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook!

- Doug, Ed and Jennelle

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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

]]> http://www.pacitpros.org/june-1st-citrix-xendesktop/feed/ 0 May 4th – Microsoft App-V / Med-V, IT job skills, Office and SharePoint 2010 Launch events http://www.pacitpros.org/may-4th-microsoft-app-v-med-v-it-job-skills-office-and-sharepoint-2010-launch-events/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.pacitpros.org/may-4th-microsoft-app-v-med-v-it-job-skills-office-and-sharepoint-2010-launch-events/#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 18:41:36 +0000 ehorley http://www.pacitpros.org/?p=517 Meeting Date and Time: May 4th, 2010 – 6:30pm

Meeting Agenda:

We will be welcoming Jeff Asis with Microsoft who will be going over App-V and Med-V two new virtualization methods for Windows 7 and Server 2008-R2. If you are not familiar with VDI or App-V and Med-V  we encourage you to attend to learn about these new technologies.  Jeff has some pretty cool demo rig to show off all this stuff, it’s worth showing up just to check out this laptop alone!

Presenter: Jeff Asis is with Microsoft and presents regularly on deployment tools.

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

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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

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