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

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- Doug, Ed and Jennelle

Joanie Rhine with Microsoft presented on the results of the latest Security Intelligence Report , Microsoft’s review of the state of the security landscape covering a 6 month period.  Joanie is a Senior Security Technology Specialist with Microsoft and previously presented to our group on Security Essentials.  Joanie provided us with several resources available for download:

• Security Intelligence Report – Key Findings
• Security Intelligence Report – Volume 7 (full report)
• Presentation Slides

Jennelle Crothers, Microsoft MVP in Desktop Experience, presented an overview of new features and functions in Terminal Services for Server 2008 and how it compares to Citrix’s solution.  You can find additional information on her blog, www.techbunny.com or download the presentation here.

Ed Horley, Microsoft MVP in Enterprise Security, presented an overview on using rfc and bogon lists as filters to help protect your network at the edge.  Find his slide presentation here.  You can also find additional information on his blog, www.howfunky.com.

Meeting Agenda:

Joanie Rhine with Microsoft will be presenting on the results of the latest Security Intelligence Report (Microsoft’s review of the state of the security landscape covering a 6 month period.)  www.microsoft.com/sir

Joanie is a Senior Security Technology Specialist with Microsoft and previously presented to our group on Security Essentials. We are excited to have her back and in person to present on SIR and the interesting information that Microsoft collects and assembles into this extensive report.

Jennelle Crothers, Microsoft MVP in Desktop Experience will present an overview of new features and functions in Terminal Services for Server 2008 and how it compares to Citrix’s solution.

Ed Horley, Microsoft MVP in Enterprise Security will present an overview on using rfc and bogon lists as filters to help protect your network at the edge.

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

I hope everyone can help congratulate Jennelle at the next meeting, she was just awarded Microsoft MVP status in Windows Desktop Experience on January 1st. This is a pretty big deal as there are only approximately 4,000 MVP’s worldwide. We are fortunate enough to have several associated with our user group but adding another is wonderful!

Congratulation to Jennelle, great job and keep up all the good work. If you haven’t checked out her blog yet you should, it is at www.techbunny.com. She is also on twitter.

- Pacific IT Professionals

Meeting Agenda:

We will be hearing from Amit Malhotra with Bakbone Software. Amit has 15 years in technology, product development and leadership experience with companies such as HP, Sun, Xerox and Trilogy. As part of his role in Corporate Development and Strategy, Amit is leading efforts to introduce new technologies and offerings to BakBone’s customers and evolving a customer centric strategy for solutions that are relevant, simple and effective. Amit will be presenting on the NetVault®: FASTRecover™.

NetVault®: FASTRecover™ provides disk-based, real-time data protection for Exchange, SQL Server and Windows File Servers.  Lightning-fast recovery of these applications and associated data to any-point-in-time is made possible with patented Virtual On-Demand Recovery ™ technology, which makes very large data objects available for use almost immediately after recovery has been initiated.  For example, Exchange databases can be mounted before the recovery is complete, allowing users to send and receive email. NetVault: FASTRecover works with existing backup applications, so no rip and replace is required.

Bakbone is on twitter.

Giveaway: Regular raffle items plus Bakbone will be having a drawing for ten $25 gas cards

REMINDER: RSVP so we know how much pizza to order!

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