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Our Next Meeting
is June 4, 2013
Topic:
PowerShell – “Making Life Easy for the Administrator”
For our May meeting we will have another open round table discussion of whatever topics the members present bring up. If you couldn't make it last month or didn't have time to ask your questions, here is a second chance. Also my friend and fellow SBS-MVP Amy Babinchak is going to be popping in via Lync to talk to us for a little while and make one attendee very happy. Here are the details from Amy: You may have heard about Third Tier’s Enterprise
Solutions for SMB Project but as I found out as Xchange last month, most
people know it by the name SMBKitchen Crew project. Third Tier has teamed up
with 7 experts to train, inform, and plan the next phase of small enterprise
solutions for those of us that have been primarily SBS shops. This includes
everything from client selection, hardware selection, to deployment. And
yes, it also includes Cloud solutions. We’re all going to be supporting
hybrid environments from now on. We’re going to do this via chat, video,
papers and webinars for 12 months. Hopefully at the end we are all wiser,
better trained and more informed. If you’d like me to introduce the project
to your members I’m happy to call in and do so. You can learn more about the project
http://www.thirdtier.net/enterprise-solutions-for-small-business/ and
the SMBKitchen Crew
http://www.thirdtier.net/smbkitchen-crew/
Boy we just escaped the bullet on that one
:>) Also while I have your attention, as you may know I have been trying to help get the Charlotte Chapter of IAMCP off the ground. It is the closest one to the Triad, so if you are interested in a closer connection with Microsoft you might want to consider getting involved. There is a meeting on 3/19/2013 here is a link to more info. And last but certainly not least my friend Dave Sanders is holding his annual IT Pro Appreciation Day on the 29th of March, an all day event full of training and networking and almost free, details at the CITPG website.
Meeting Space
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Mark Crall was nice enough to offer to fill in to help us out. It’s time to move beyond
backup and start focusing on recoverability! Mark Crall,
recovering VAR/MSP owner, IT channel veteran and Sr. Channel Account Manager
for StorageCraft will be in town to share not only the latest in recovery
technologies, but the methods to market, sell, implement and support those
solutions. Join us for a business and technical deep dive into
“Beyond Backup” and learn:
·
What’s new with
StorageCraft – Quick briefing on the new features in ShadowProtect V5,
ImageManager V6 and StorageCraft Cloud Services
·
How build your
own BDR – Learn how to build a backup and disaster recovery server with
industry standard hardware
·
How to offer RaaS
– Learn 3 simple steps to go from simply selling backup solutions to
offering your own Recovery as a Service (RaaS)
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At Our Meeting
February 5, 2013
GFI MAX In the House Yes that's right my old pal MAX, unfortunately he can't make it himself but he is sending Bill Wilson- GFI MAX Sales Engineer and Jeff Hardee-GFI MAX South Sales Executive will be presenting on February 5th. Bill will speak on the new features of the dashboard that were released on December 20th. It was an early Christmas gift. He will be discussing and demonstrating them as well. Our Linux agent went into RC, OSX is in Beta, new ESXI scripts, CART (Competitive Agent Removal Tool), and finally a System Tray Application. Jeff will also add a few ideas or pointers on how to grow your business (If time permits). The guys and GFI will be buying us pizza and soft drinks, so I need you to let me know if you plan on attending so I have a count for dinner. Also any special dietary concerns.
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There will be
NO
MEETING
in January 2013
The SMB 150 voting is
open once again, please make sure to vote for your favorite SMB Leaders,
Influencers and Experts at
http://smb150.com/
Have a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
At
Our Meeting
December 4, 2012
Located in Vancouver, WA, CRU-DataPort is a pioneer in data security and
data mobility devices. The company's flagship DataPort®, along with Data
Express® and RhinoJR® (formerly StorCase), and WiebeTech™ product brands of
removable and external hard drive enclosures are the de facto standard for
physical data security and safe data transporting in government, education
and business markets. Jerry McLean is the Eastern Region Sales Manager for
CRU-DataPort. He has over 13 years in the industry working for CRU-DataPort
and LaCie. This has allowed him to gain strong knowledge in the storage
industry with a specific focus on the SMB Market. There will be a special
offer made to members who attend and sign up for their Partner Program.
We will also do a
drawing for a
populated
ToughTech DUO 3SR.
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I know a lot of you already resell Calyptix, but this is your
chance to get some face time with one of our favorite vendors. More details
to follow next week, just a quick reminder while I am traveling so you can
block out the time!
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At
Our Meeting
October 2, 2012
My history is 24 years of working with Unix and Linux.
I actually started with Linux about 1990(ish) and have used or explored many
of the Linux distributions. I didn’t get into the mini-distro
that focus on firewall or appliances. I was always searching for the
Linux Desktop. I started in the industry with Sun Solaris and
IBM AIX. I worked as a Unix System Admin and middleware admin
for many years and until joining with Jr, I was with IBM as an Oracle team
manager. Windows was a necessary evil but at IBM, they
developed a Linux Desktop that I used everyday and rarely touched a Windows
desktop. It was very exciting. There are several possible replacements for the SBS
server in the Linux space. I would be happy to share an overview of
them and explore the possibilities.
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At
Our Meeting
September 4, 2012 On Sept 4th, Michael Vanderhoff of Kerio Technologies (www.kerio.com), will be presenting on Kerio's suite of products which target SMB. Kerio Technologies is most known for an Exchange alternative called Kerio Connect, but they also fill the space in voice, document collaboration, and security. Many Small Business Specialists look towards Kerio for alternatives to Exchange and Sharepoint. With the recent news of SBS going away, Kerio is becoming a topic of interest as a replacement solution for on-premise email. With the help of JR Tatum, you all will see product demos of Kerio products, and have the chance to ask questions to both JR and Michael.
Kerio will provide food and drinks, and we look
forward to seeing you all on Sept 4th!
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At
Our Meeting
August 7, 2012 This month we are going to have a split format, I know you have questions after Microsoft's announcement of the end of life for SBS, a couple of days after our last meeting, so we will devote the first part of the meeting to discussing what that means to us and doing business in our space. Then our longtime friend Jason Harrison the president of Harrison Technology Consulting will do a review of some real world alternative solutions, something his company has been doing for quite some time now. By the end of the meeting I am hoping
we can pull you all back from the ledge before you jump off, by showing you
there is a road whichever way you choose to go with or without Microsoft or
possibley with some hybrid of the two.
Here is the schedule for the meeting
I would recommend getting there early this month
as I have a feeling we may not be able to hold off the discussion until 6:30
:>)
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At
Our Meeting
July 3, 2012 I realize this meeting is the day before the 4th of July so I figured I better come up with something exciting to get y'all to show up. I think I have found just such an exciting topic. I will be doing a live demo of how to create a Windows 8, Windows To Go USB Drive this is one of the cool new features of the upcoming Windows 8 operating system. I will be building it on the public RC (Release Candidate) so you can go home and try it yourself after watching how it is done. Windows 8 is expected to be released later this year. Meeting Space compliments of
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At Our Meeting June 5,2012 We had a very interactive open discussion, a numner of us were leaving the next day for New Olreans for the IT Pro Conference 2012 by SBSmigration.com
And yes we had a great time, here is a pic of the dinner the last night
notice tSBSg had its very own table :>) At Our Meeting May 1st Coming up in May our old friend Yung Chou will be coming up to show us what he can of Windows 8, of course some of the Windows 8 details are still under an NDA Embargo, but Yung will do his best to get you up to speed on as much as he can. Windows 8 is a direct
response of consumerization of IT from Microsoft. It's an all-new touch
interface and full of exciting new features and capabilities. Yung Chou, Sr.
IT Pro Evangelist from Microsoft, will show how you can quickly become
productive using Windows 8. This is to reimagine Windows for the future and
the future is now. Meeting Space compliments of
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Hope you
can make it to the meeting,
Our Last Meeting was April 3rd
Business Intelligence: What can SharePoint
2010 do for your organization?
Presented by Charles Traywick (Principle –
Infotronics)
Often mislabeled and misunderstood, SharePoint is arguably one of the most
successful server level software products in recent decades. Now in its
fourth major release, SharePoint 2010 offers significant features for
business intelligence, collaboration and centralization of work processes
(portal) and hosting of standard applications.
This session will provide an overview of the integration of business
intelligence features and how to use them to make analysis easier and more
fluid for decision makers. Will we explore how to connect to back end
databases and expose the “intelligence” buried in standard transactional
data and show how easy it is to make this data accessible for users.
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Hope you
can make it to the meeting,
At Our Meeting March 6th 2012 Ignore those rumors that
there is no meeting for March, there is a regular meeting on our regular
date March 6th! I am sorry I did not get the
word out sooner, I have been on the road since the 17th and buried with
commitments and travel.
1)
how to install an
OS directly into a VHD on an unpartitioned hard drive
2)
boot directly
from the VHD
3)
add another VHD
to the partition and have a menu at boot time to choose which OS to boot Hope you
can make it to the meeting, Meeting Space compliments of
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At Our Meeting February 7th 2012 Again this month we will have on open discussion of whatever y’all want to discuss. Bring your tough problems or your cool tips and tricks. Remember Mr. Neil was good enough to block us out into lab a so you can bring your food and eat in the room with the concrete floor. See you at 6:00pm we will get serious at 6:30
At Our Meeting January 3rd 2012
Well with the holidays I fell asleep at the switch and have not lined up
anyone to present for our January meeting so we will be starting the new
year off with on open discussion of whatever y’all want to discuss. Bring
your tough problems or your cool tips and tricks. Remember Mr. Neil was good
enough to block us out into lab a so you can bring your food and eat in the
room with the concrete floor. See you at 6:00pm we will get serious at 6:30.
Until then Happy New Year! Meeting Space compliments of
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At Our Meeting December 6th 2011 A couple of months ago I got a note from my pal Grey "Gramps" Lancaster asking me if we had any interest in seeimg him show off the new HomeServer (Gramps is the first ever HomeServer MVP) and how to run multiple instances of it in Hyper-V on an HP MicroServer. Gramps will also be showing DPM so you will get to see the full range of Microsoft backup offerings. I said of course, when do you want to come out. Well he was busy for October & November and we had StorageCraft already lined up, so he said how about December. I said you got it. So for our meeting on December 6th Gramps will be showing off a few of his favorite toys as he likes to call them :>)
Also Grey has
gone through the necessary paperwork to become an OEM (not system builder
but full-fledged OEM) with Microsoft and will be marketing his own brand of
WSSE box to a select group of partners and will have one of the prototypes
with him to show off to us. ECPI has arranged for us to use the room with the concrete floor, so you can bring your dinner with you if you like. Hope you can make it, should be a lot of fun!
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At Our Meeting November 1st 2011 While I was at SMB Nation in Las Vegas I bumped into the gang from StorageCraft and harrassed them about neglecting us for so long and guess what, our pal Matt Rutter is coming out to do our November meeting. StorageCraft has lots of new stuff to show off, it should be a great meeting. I know a few of you have had questions lately, so bring them along and let make it an interactive session, they are the best for all of us. StorageCraft also has a new and improved partner program, how do I know you ask, because I helped shape it :>) Due to the rules about food in the classrooms, I turned down their offer to buy dinner, it was just going to be to much of a hassle and distraction, so eat before you come or you are welcome to eat in the lunchroom, see note below.
Please remember you are welcome to bring food or drinks with you,
but
you must eat them in the cafeteria,
not in the classrooms anymore, due to new carpeting. If you want to eat your
din din in the lunchroom get there at 6:00PM. The actual meeting will start
at 6:30pm. Meeting Space compliments of
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At Our Meeting
October 4th 2011
I will still be on the road between
SMB Nation
and the SMB MVP
Roadshow, and Kay Tatum has once again stepped up to be your
stand in group leader, thank you Kay! For October, one of our members John Zielke would like to lead an open discussion of favorite apps y'all use. So please bring a list of your top 5-10 favorite apps or tools and be prepared to discuss what you like about them. This type of open discussion always ranks near the top when I pole you guys about what kind of meetings you would like, so here is your chance, sorry I will not be there, I like these as well.
Also Kay will have some exciting news to share with you at the
meeting, she is under strict NDA until then.
At
Our Meeting
September 6th 2011 Jonathan Cogley is the Product Manager and CEO at
Thycotic Software which is headquartered in Washington DC and makes
enterprise password management tools including Secret Server. Secret
Server is a web-based password vault for storing privileged passwords. Over
30,000 IT administrators worldwide trust Secret Server with their
infrastructure passwords. Secret Server also integrates with AD so you can
apply permissions for access to passwords and it can even change passwords
for servers, network devices and workstations automatically across the
network.
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At Our Meeting August 2nd 2011 We will be hosting a stop of the International SMB MVP Community Roadshow sponsored by HP & Microsoft and produced by SBSmigration.com. This is a going to be a big meeting for us and we will be taking advantage once again of the Regus Conference Center next door to ECPI. You will need to register for this event as we will likely sell out and I want to make sure you don’t get turned away at the door, so please register early. Registration is open at smbmvptour.com/register . You can get more information about the tour at smbmvptour.com. Food will be provided by the sponsors. Here is the news blurb; The Triad SBS Group is proud to host a stop of the
International SMB MVP Community Roadshow for our August meeting. This is a
chance to hear first-hand from our 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 my fellow SMB MVP's on real world scenarios they are
deploying today. Each stop on the tour will be a little different as the
presenters change as the tour progresses and they also have to flexibility
to shape the discussion to fit the local audience. The format will follow
our normal 3 hour meeting, 30 minutes to eat (food supplied by tour
sponsors) and mingle, 120 minutes of presentation and 30 minutes of
networking to close the meeting. Presenters: we are lucky to have two
outstanding MVP’s presenting at our event, first possibly the most awarded
person in SMB IT Amy Babinchak of Harbor Computing & Third Tier and also SBS
MVP Cliff Galiher who is an independent consultant and also works for Third
Tier in his spare time. (Note: If you are a group leader and would like to look into having the tour stop at your group see http://www.sbsmigration.com/it-pro-community/signup.php and follow the instructions there. Also watch for a direct mailing from Jeff Middleton with more details.)
At
Our Meeting
July 5th 2011 After last month's meeting a few of us were talking in the parking lot (the famous meeting after the meeting) about who used the advanced features of LogMeIn and Dick Snow offered to do a demo of some of them including Ignition . So this month he has agreed to do that demo and then we will have a random access session after that where you can ask your questions of the group and/or share any tips you find useful. Yes I know it is the day after the holiday, but that is when you are supposed to get back to normal, so I hope to see many of you there being normal :>)
Please remember you are welcome to bring food or drinks with you,
but
you must eat them in the cafeteria, not in the
classrooms anymore, due to new carpeting. If you want to eat your din din in the lunchroom get there
at 6:00PM. The actual meeting content will start at 6:30pm.
Coming up for our August 2nd Meeting
we will be hosting a stop of the
International SMB MVP Community Roadshow sponsored by HP & Microsoft and produced by SBSmigration.com. This
is a going to be a big meeting for us and we will be taking advantage once
again of the Regus Conference room next door to ECPI. You will need to
register for this event as we will likely sell out and I want to make sure
you don’t get turned away at the door, so please register early.
Registration is open at
smbmvptour.com/register
. You can get more information about
the tour at
smbmvptour.com.
Food will be provided by the sponsors. (Note: If you are a group leader and would like to look into having the tour stop at your group see http://www.sbsmigration.com/it-pro-community/signup.php and follow the instructions there. Also watch for a direct mailing from Jeff Middleton with more details.)
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At
Our Meeting
June 7th 2011
We would took a look at
Windows Storage Server R2 Essentials
previously known as code name Breckenridge. This is a server based on the
common Colorado technology under the hood for SBS 2011 Essentials (Aurora)
and Windows HomeServer 2011 (Vail). If you are looking for a backup solution
for your SBS 2008 or SBS 2011 Standard this will fit the bill. Microsoft
heard us when we said we needed a solution that was not called HomeSever and
stepped up to the plate and delivered WSSE. We will also have some time to
discuss current issues you may be having.
Please remember you are welcome to bring food or drinks with you,
but
you must eat them in the cafeteria, not in the
classrooms anymore, due to new carpeting. It will take me a while to set
everything up so if you want to eat your din din in the lunchroom get there
at 6:00PM. The actual presentation will start at 6:30pm.
Still time to register and attend the upcoming TechStravaganza in
Atlanta June 3rd
Not too late to register for SMB Nation Spring Conference in
Toronto, Canada
We have an exciting opportunity
coming up at ECPI. On Friday, June
3 from 11am - 2pm we will hold our annual Advisory Board Meeting.
We invite industry professionals to join us in a round-table discussion
on what you think students should do to prepare themselves for success in the
corporate world. This includes
technologies that they should learn and skills that you think will be beneficial
for them to have. Areas of interest include: - Web Design - Electronics - Network Security - Mechatronics - Business Administration Lunch will be provided to all
participants. Please feel free to
forward this email amongst those in the SBS Group, or any professional that
qualifies to attend this event. A
response via email would be greatly appreciated!
Any questions, just let me know. Thanks a bunch! Jewel Watts, (Greensboro) <jwatts@ecpi.edu> Instructor, ECPI College of
Technology 7802 Airport Center Drive Greensboro, NC 27409 Phone: (336) 665-1400 ext. 69439 Fax: (336) 664-0801
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At
Our Meeting
May 3rd 2011
A couple of weeks ago
I presented
Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 to Amy's brand new IT Pro Group
see blog post
and it was very well received. I figured I would do that same presentation for
my own group for our upcoming May meeting . I would not want my peeps to feel
cheated :>)
Please remember you are welcome to bring food or drinks with you, but
you must eat them in the cafeteria,
not in the classrooms anymore, due to new carpeting. It will take me a while to
set everything up so if you want to eat your din din in the lunchroom get there
at 6:00PM. The actual presentation will start at 6:30pm.
Upcoming TechStravaganza in Atlanta June 3rd
Kevin Royalty and I will be answering questions about WMS on TechNet Radio on
May 4th at noon eastern time
And finally Jewel from ECPI has a request for some participation from some of
our members which I will post here,
We have an exciting opportunity
coming up at ECPI. On Friday, June
3 from 11am - 2pm we will hold our annual Advisory Board Meeting.
We invite industry professionals to join us in a round-table discussion
on what you think students should do to prepare themselves for success in the
corporate world. This includes
technologies that they should learn and skills that you think will be beneficial
for them to have. Areas of interest include: - Web Design - Electronics - Network Security - Mechatronics - Business Administration Lunch will be provided to all
participants. Please feel free to
forward this email amongst those in the SBS Group, or any professional that
qualifies to attend this event. A
response via email would be greatly appreciated!
Any questions, just let me know. Thanks a bunch! Jewel Watts, (Greensboro) <jwatts@ecpi.edu> Instructor, ECPI College of
Technology 7802 Airport Center Drive Greensboro, NC 27409 Phone: (336) 665-1400 ext. 69439 Fax: (336) 664-0801
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At Our Meeting April 5th 2011
Post Meeting Update: We had a pretty good turnout with the weather and all,
a few of you who could not get to the meeting asked about recordings. Their
will be a virtual event on 4/13/2011 where you can get the content you
missed, register at
When I warned you last month that this meeting would sellout fast, even I
was surprised at just how fast. The SBS 2011 Partner Road Show is going to be
doing our April meeting we had already booked 58 attendees well past the 30
seat limit of our regular meeting space. I went back to Microsoft and they
have authorized some additional funding for a larger space so we will be
meeting in the building next door to ECPI. If you have not registered yet,
we have 2 slots still open, but cut off is today 4/4/2011 at 2:00pm Eastern.
Please Note the location for the April meeting is the Regus Building
At Our Meeting March 1st 2011 I was out of town at MVP Summit and MVP Nation so Kay has offered to run the meeting which seems appropriate since JR will be doing the presentation. Just think of it as an evening with Performance Dimensions, Inc Here are the descriptions of
the two applications JR will demo'd
SmoothWall Express Firewall 1. Be simple enough to be installed
by home users with no knowledge of Linux 2. Support a wide variety of network cards, modems and other
hardware 3. Work with many different connection methods and ISPs from
across the world 4. Manage and configure the software using a web browser 5. Run efficiently on older, cheaper hardware 6. Develop a supportive user community 7. Use sponsorship from SmoothWall Limited to further these
goals Zentyal - The Linux Small Business Server Finally Microsoft UGSS (User Group Support Services) would like you to fill out a short survey before the end of February CLICK HERE for the survey or HERE for more details.
At Our February Meeting It had been quite a while since we had a member to member meeting, and these have been very popular in the past, so for February you brought your tough problems and the group put on their thinking caps and solved them for you with a little give and take. All questions related SMB Business and/or Technology were fair game. I also gave a sneak peak at the new Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 and now some of you are as anxious for it to RTM as I am,
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At
Our January
Meeting
Due to some major
miscommunications (probably my fault) between, Karl Palachuk, Intel, Dave
Sanders and myself it has turned out that our Intel Hybrid Cloud meeting is
happening on the right date in the wrong city. I spoke to Dave and Karl and
everyone is bending over backwards to work this out. So based on your wiliness
to help as well, we are going to make it a joint meeting between CITPG and TSBSG
and meet in the Charlotte location on our meeting date.
Karl has asked that you please register on
HIS SITE to confirm your attendance and
be eligible to win the Grand Prize, a Lenovo TS200v Server. See
HIS FLYER for more specifics about the
event.
For more information about the venue and directions please see the
CITPG WEBSITE it says food is $7.00
but Intel is picking up the tab.
If you plan to eat please make sure to
click the CITPG link above and check the box for food so Dave has an accurate
count for the chef. Yes that's right CITPG has it's very own chef, see what you
can do with a huge membership!
It will say the cost is 7.00, but worry
not, Intel is sponsoring the food completely, as long as you register!
I am sorry about the requirement for dual registration for this
event, but it is out of my control.
Thank You Again To Everyone For Your Flexibility With The January
Meeting Arrangements.
PS next month things will be back to normal and we will be back
home meeting at
ECPI, topic ytbd
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