Windows Networking Solutions User Group
WiNSUG, Where IT Meets...After Hours!
Serving North County and the greater San Diego County in Southern California USA
If you have attended one of our meetings in the past, please join our Yahoo Group to stay in touch with the latest area and group happenings: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/winsug/
Past meeting and event highlights.
Topic: Cisco 201 - Hacking Cisco Routers for SBS Administrators by Eric Louie (our very own 'Cisco kid')
In July 2009 we got to see the Cisco 101 – Configuring Cisco Routers for SBS Administrators by Eric that focused on getting to know Cisco routers and using the command line interface. Now that we've gone through the basics its time to step up to hacking a Cisco router under the wise tutelage of our very own 'Cisco kid' (yes he worked for Cisco in the early 90's). Eric plans to bring some switches and routers to work on so be ready to get some hand-on experience.
There will be free food from Daphne's Greek Cafe (bring your own drink) & door prizes (Office 2007 Standard plus books on Active Directory, PowerShell 2.0, and on Exchange 2007)!
NEW LOCATION:
Christ Presbyterian Church
7807 Centella St
Carlsbad CA 92009-8316
[Bing map of location] http://tinyurl.com/ycpdngk
**Look for signs to meeting room location when onsite**
Coordinator: Rick Joyce
There has been a change of plans. Some of us will gather together for dinner at Sage Grill, 1506 Encinitas Blvd, Encinitas, CA 92024 http://www.sagegrill.com/ (in Erik Pfeiffer’s area for a change). No gift exchange. We’ll keep it simple and social. So far we have what looks like 8 people interested (including 2 guests). If you'd like to join in just drop me an email so we can get a table for everyone to sit at together. Let’s meet at 6:30PM there.
Coordinators: Karen Christian
Virtualization is one of the latest IT industry buzzwords. Does it make sense for you? This presentation will address some of your questions and help you avoid some of the more common pitfalls.
Do you know how to get the most out of virtualization? Is virtualization for small businesses or for data centers? What are the reasons for virtualizing? Does it make sense for me? What hardware do I need? Would you know why backup can be a problem and how to solve it? How do you virtualize if you need large amounts of disk space? How do you use SAN or NAS? What are some of the security concerns?
Coordinator: Eric Louie
October
8, 2009
*** DATE CHANGE DUE TO SMB NATION 2009 CONFERENCE
IN LAS VEGAS - SECOND THURSDAY ***
Are you
ready for the official Windows 7 launch on Thursday, October 22? To get
started there are video walkthroughs, webcasts and more at
TechNet
Springboard: Windows 7. For Microsoft information on Windows 7 go to the
Windows 7 Home and check it out now!
![Tim Barrett [SBS-MVP] - Louisville, KY USA](images/tim_barrett.jpg)
We have lined up 2 top notch presenters (via Office Live Meeting) to bring us up to speed on the latest with Windows 7. To see what's going on at the SBS Diva Blog go to http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/Default.aspx And to see the latest from the 'Geek in the know' go to: http://www.nogeekleftbehind.com/
Presenters:
Ms. Susan Elise Bradley , CPA, CITP, MCP, GSEC - Susan (''SBS Diva'') started her career in computing with IBM 8088 computers and Compaq "luggable" portables. To this day she is convinced that her right arm is longer than her left arm because she lugged those dang "luggables" for an entire summer at an audit job. Now she practically has an RJ45 connection growing out of her body.
Tim Barrett notes the following on his site: 'I’m a Microsoft Small Business Specialist. And I hate monkeys. A lot.
“No Geek Left Behind” - Tim Barrett’s official attempt at wasting two minutes of your life that you’ll never get back. Look for Microsoft Windows Small Business Server (SBS) news sprinkled amongst meaningless tripe & prattle.' His business is Applied Tech out of Wisconsin. http://www.appliedtech.us/
Coordinator: Erik Pfeiffer
Returning
tonight by overwhelming popular demand our own resident 'hacker' Mr. Silver Ace.
He'll be showing us how to create one of the tools of the trade that you'll want
in your toolbox. How safe are your computers?
Additional Info from Erik on 9/1/09:
Okay everyone, here is how it’s going to go.
There will be very little PowerPoint. I am not as good as Rick Joyce at putting together awesome PP. I will be covering everything step by step though. Sorry, Marty, that means you will be left out. I learned most everything from the website.
We will not be building the complete tool Thursday night, only covering how to build the tool. There is a lot of downloading of updates and compiling to be done and you would just be looking at boring screens.
I will be providing a complete DVD for people to copy and the raw ISO file to copy to laptops. Don’t worry about bringing thumb drives to build, but you can bring them to transfer files. The current ISO sits at 841 megs. You can copy the ISO to your laptop and burn and test onsite.
I will TRY and burn some copies to give away.
The important thing to remember is this quote, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” This is so true with this tool. I want everyone to be able to make this tool and update it with confidence by the end of the meeting.
When things cool down, I can host a Nerd Night at my house and we can cover this in more depth and help people build one onsite.
If you are still on the fence about whether you should attend to learn this tool, just ask Karen Christian or Jeff Adzima how useful this is. They both used a disk I gave them to work their way out of a sticky situation.
Presenter: Erik Pfeiffer is the owner of Silver Ace Consulting and an active member of the WiNSUG Steering Committee. He has been an independent consultant since 2002. Erik provides onsite IT services to small businesses and home offices. He is a security nut, and not all of it relates to computers. He is involved in a local 2600 group. 2600 is basically dedicated to ethical hacking. For fun he even hacked his Xbox and Linksys WRT54G router.
Coordinator: Larry Saunders
By
the time this meeting convenes, Small Business Server 2008 will have been
officially on the street for almost 10 months. Rick will outline the process for
migrating to SBS 2008 from SBS 2003, clarifying some steps and pointing out
pitfalls. For example, did you know that if you elect to install Microsoft
Forefront for Exchange during the SBS 2008 installation, it will be enabled when
you move your mailboxes and may strip off many of your saved attachments and
dump them in the quarantine folder? Rick will also discuss operational problems
that have emerged since the product shipped and how to fix them. You can enhance
the benefits you will derive from this presentation if you download and peruse
the SBS 2008 Installation Guide (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=123543)
and the recently
updated SBS2003 to SBS 2008 Migration Guide
(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=123547).
Better yet, install SBS 2008
yourself and get some hands on experience, or perform a test migration. If you
have a particular topic you would like Rick to discuss, or if you have any SBS
2008 experiences which will help others to avoid problems, please contact Rick
(rjoyce@jnetservices.com)
and provide details to incorporate into the presentation.
Presenter:
Rick Joyce is the owner of Joyce Network
Services, an IT consulting company specializing in small businesses. He has
been in the IT services business as a network administrator, an IT Manager, and
an independent consultant for over thirteen years. Rick holds MS degrees in
Engineering Electronics and Management. He is a Microsoft Small Business
Specialist, a Microsoft Certified Professional (SBS) and a Microsoft Certified
Systems Engineer (NT). Rick is a frequent presenter at WiNSUG meetings.
Coordinator: Karen Christian
Trend Micro will host FREE training (with certification upon completion) for the North San Diego area on Saturday, July 11. It will be from 9AM – 4PM and will include FREE continental breakfast, lunch and snack. This will be held at a business location near Melrose Avenue and Palomar Airport Road in Carlsbad (a client site). Details will be sent to all registrants. This will NOT be held at Coleman University. The key presenter from Trend Micro will be William Kam, Product Manager accompanied by Nicole Sharatt, SMB User Experience Architect and Angeline Rivero, Technical Marketing Engineer. Past presentations I have attended in Lake Forest (at the Trend Micro office) have been informative, educational and worthwhile. If you use Trend Micro’s products, have considered using them or are just interested in finding out what Trend Micro is offering these days then this is the program you will want to attend.
The content will include the following, as time permits:
1. Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security 6.0
2. Worry-Free Remote Manager 2.1
3. Worry-Free Business Security Hosted 2.5
4. InterScan Messaging Hosted Security 1.9
5. Trend Micro Security Site 1.5
Training
will also be available on the following dates in other areas:
South San Diego – Saturday June 20
Lake Forest – Saturday August 1
Pasadena – Saturday August 8
If you are interested in attending the Saturday, July 11 training session (to be held in Carlsbad) please add your name to the WiNSUG Yahoo Groups Database at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/WiNSUG/database?method=reportRows&tbl=9 A headcount is needed for location setup and food planning. NOTE: If you are not a WiNSUG Yahoo Group member and would like to attend you may email me directly at karen.christian@gmail.com to be included on the list and receive location information.
Coordinator: Karen Christian
Are you supporting Cisco devices for your customers or your company, and feel like you don’t have a clue as to how to configure or monitor those devices? Are you depending on the GUI for what would seem to be simple tasks, and frustrated when the GUI doesn’t do what you want? Here’s your introduction to the very powerful command line interface (CLI) for those devices. We’ll show you how to access the command line interface, both directly from the console port and via telnet, show some basic status and configuration commands, and even let you have some hands-on with these devices. The basic router commands and switch commands will be demo’ed, and there will be a few devices for you to mess around with. As a bonus, we’ll have a set of links that you can use in a pinch, and a short summary in a PDF document that you can carry around, along with some typical results and where the problems might be when you’re troubleshooting.
Coordinator: Rick Joyce
Yes – it is possible to survive and thrive during tough times. The key is to identify specific viable opportunities. Enjoy Harry’s often humorous presentation on top opportunities that are countercyclical in nature. These industries are historically underserved and technology hungry. This fast paced speech starts with Slumdog Millionaire and ends with “sinners.” Presented in a “photo essay” format that is a great break from traditional PowerPoint slide deck presentations. Based on the SMB PC magazine cover story with the same name by Harry (Issue 3-4, 1Q2009).
***START TIME FOR FOOD AND SOCIAL NETWORKING IS 5 PM***
UPDATE:
The June Super Meeting has gone thru a last minute 2.0 upgrade! We have a
sponsorship from CBeyond (http://www.cbeyond.net)
. We will start the meeting earlier now. You can show up starting at 5pm, this
coming Thursday, June 4th at Coleman University in San Marcos. This will be a
great time to meet other computer professionals like yourselves and social
network in person. You know you can still do that? Starting at 5:30pm, CBeyond
will be doing a 20 minute presentation about their services and how they relate
to our market space. Yes they will be bringing technical people to answer your
questions, so it won’t be just marketing fluff. I, Erik Pfeiffer, am a CBeyond
Channel Partner and have enjoyed the extra income it has brought me in these
difficult economic times. CBeyond will be providing food and drinks for all
those who attend.
We need to know how many people are showing up. Please click this link to register for this free event: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=138361 If you have any difficulties in getting registered, please email Erik Pfeiffer at ace@silverace.net to let him know you plan to attend on Thursday evening. Thank you.
***Door Prizes***Door Prizes***Must Be Present to Win ***Door Prizes***Door Prizes***
*********Including a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate PLUS much, much more**********
Presenter:
Harry Brelsford, CEO , SMB Nation
Harry Brelsford is the CEO of SMB Nation (www.smbnation.com) from Bainbridge Island, WA. He is a long-time SMB channel partner who has served customers and mentored other partners (SMB Nation has over 35,000 tribal members who are SMB technology consultants). He oversees the popular SMB Nation worldwide events including Webinar, workshops and multi-day conferences. He holds an MBA (and numerous certifications such as MCSE, MCT, CNE, et al) and is the author of 17-books. He is also the publisher of SMB Partner Community magazine. His 20-years of SMB technology experience were supplemented by teaching 12+ years at night as an adjunct professor at Seattle Pacific University and other higher-learning institutions. Harry is a frequent speaker at industry events. Harry’s recent books include the Microsoft Response Point Primer and Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 Blueprint.
Coordinator: Erik Pfeiffer
Smart Homes: Computerizing Your Crib
Digital Convergence in the home blends
technology with lifestyle. Manage your home lighting, climate, ambience
and security from anywhere and everywhere you wish. Or, take a vacation
and let your Smart Home take care of things for you! A brief look at home
automation software and hardware technologies available for improving your
lifestyle at home or away, with a focus on WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor). The
presentation will include a live demonstration of user-programmable home
automation systems at work.
For more information you may contact Danne via his website at http://www.fullhousedigital.com/
Members share recent troubleshooting successes or disaster recovery nightmares. Lessons learned, where to go for help, nifty utilities discovered, etc. Anyone wishing to share or suggest a topic please drop an e-mail to rjoyce@jnetservices.com with “WINSUG” in the subject line. PowerPoint slides and live demos are welcome but not required. No marketing pitches, please.
Coordinator: Rick Joyce
Special: The new Steering Committee for 2009-2010 will be announced based on Yahoo Group election results.
The Managed Services buzz - how can it help my business or IT environment?
There is a lot of talk around the IT community about the Managed Services model of support. At this month's meeting, you will hear about successful strategies for putting together a Managed Services offering.
Our main speaker, Don Begg, has built a Managed Services solution as a turnkey offering. He also has many years of experience in supporting environments just like the ones our clients or employers have. If you've been curious about why and how to implement Managed Services, this is the session to attend.
Presenter: Don Begg has been extremely active and a strong supporter of the user group community, as the President of the San Diego Cisco Users Group in the 90's and most recently the International Association of Microsoft Certified Professionals. Don Begg is chief executive officer and principal sales consultant for Do IT Smarter, a leader in transitioning VARs to MSPs, headquartered in San Diego, Calif.. Begg is one of the original founders of Do IT Smarter. As CEO he oversees the direction of Do IT Smarter and manages their sales and marketing processes. As principal sales consultant, Begg helps companies implement technology to solve business problems. He has over 20 years experience in information technology product, service and support sales. Begg began his career in 1984 as MIS coordinator for Wang Laboratories.
While coordinator he successfully maintained the financial production environment and was responsible for booking $25 million annually. Begg also designed and implemented an in-house wide area network. Within a year Begg was promoted to systems consultant where he developed technical proposals, designed and delivered training modules for custom application software, and marketed company products at computer shows. As systems consultant Begg received the Analyst of the Quarter award from Wang Laboratories. In 1987 Begg became sales representative for Wang. As sales representative he sold, designed, and installed the first PC LAN for the company and was the first sales representative to exceed $1 million product bookings in his assigned territory. He also designed and presented customized on-site demonstrations.
In 1990 Begg became account representative for Wang Laboratories where he developed and implemented creative sales strategies that increased consulting services by 500 percent during his last two years and was awarded the Achievers club for his work.
In 1994 Begg joined LANSystems as a sales consultant where he gained exposure to commercial sales. While at LANSystems Begg was introduced to their service methodology that would have a major impact on his future approach to service projects.
In 1995 he moved to Online Connecting Point where he was senior account executive for four years in charge of generating new network integration sales and was instrumental in developing the service capabilities of the San Diego office. The service department grew from a single engineer to nearly 20 engineers with Begg's new focus on service sales. Begg landed one of the largest projects in the history of Online Connecting Point when they were awarded a $4.3 million dollar project to migrate Scripps Health from an assortment of legacy operating systems to a state of the art Microsoft BackOffice system. The project involved the migration of 3000 desktops, 50 servers, and a couple hundred different healthcare specific applications.
Begg received his bachelor's degree in Mathematics with emphasis in computer science from San Diego State University in 1983. He lives in San Diego with his wife and daughter.
Coordinator: Eric Louie
Special: Candidates for the Steering Committee are encouraged to step forward at this time. Elections held via Yahoo Groups prior to April meeting.
In this session we will introduce you to the SQL Server product family. We'll discuss the installation and initial configuration of a SQL Server instance and discuss the tools available to manage SQL Server. Finally I'll show you how to create, secure, and backup a SQL Server database.
BIO:
Bret Stateham is the owner of Net Connex Technology Training and Consulting, LLC in San Diego. Bret has been working with providing solutions on SQL Server going back to SQL Server 6.5 and has been teaching on SQL Server for over a Decade. Bret has contributed to multiple Syngress publications on SQL Server and is a frequent speaker at Code Camps and user group meetings. www.netconnex.com
Coordinator: Erik Pfeiffer
Making the right firewall
selection for your clients is extremely important. Come and find out what
Calyptix offers and how the AccessEnforcer can be a valuable part of your
support offering package. Presented by Amy Babinchak (not the vendor) coming to
WiNSUG via Office Live Meeting. The following are some of her many
credentials/qualifications:
AND a special thank you (and round of applause) to Calyptix for providing the following (you must physically attend meeting at Coleman College to win/receive/enjoy):
AND IN ADDITION: What is ThirdTier? - Support Services for IT Professionals and how can they be of help to you and your business?
***No meeting at Coleman College***
Our annual relaxed format
meeting that focuses on food and fun. 
Mark your calendars for Thursday, December 4 starting at 6PM. We'll gather at Hacienda de Vega in Escondido (http://www.haciendadevega.com/) for a good time for members, family and friends. This is a no host event. There is a great atmosphere and plenty of refreshment and food options. They have an open patio area with a pond and waterfall. There is an outside bar and meals are served under covered and heated areas. The address is 2608 S Escondido Blvd, Escondido 92025. The phone number is 760-738-9805. We'll need a head count no later than Monday, December 1 so that they can setup an area for us in advance. You can sign up by going to the WiNSUG Yahoo Groups and selecting Database (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/WiNSUG/database)
Coordinator: Karen Christian
by
Jeffrey B. Kane, Microsoft MVPEBS 2008 is targeted to organizations of 50 to 300 users, but I only deal with customers that have less than 50 users. What do I need to know about EBS? What’s in it for me?
A quick and snappy overview of Essential Business Server 2008 without any live demos! (But that doesn’t mean you won’t see any cool EBS features).
Coordinator: Larry Saunders
VPN Basics – what is a VPN, why do we need one?
Encryption – define encryption and how it applies to securing communications
IPSec – how IPSec fits into encryption and why it should be used
TCP/IP and encryption – things you need to know and understand
VPN demo
BIO:
Currently a Sr. Solutions Engineer with Verizon Business designing corporate internet solutions as well as VOIP, security (all kinds).
Previously Security Product Manager with Fiberlink Communications, VPN services (Nortel, Cisco, F-5, Citrix), end point security (IBM/ISS Proventia, Cisco CSA), and Zero Day Protection. Prior to Fiberlink, Lead Remote Access and Security Engineer for SAIC, VPN manger (worldwide deployment of 20+ VPN systems), Authentication administrator (RSA token authentication on Solaris), Cisco ACS RADIUS/TACACS servers serving a population of about 40K users.
Coordinator: Erik Pfeiffer
Our “panel of experts” (the entire group) is welcome to bring us a problem that you either know the answer to, or need a solution for
Test ourselves and each other
Everything from the seemingly simple (“Can’t join a PC to the domain”) to the ridiculously complicated (“Help me create a dialer application for outbound calling campaigns”)
Troubleshooting techniques for “Can’t browse the domain” or “Outlook seems to be stuck”
The default SBS settings (just in case you are in a sea of chaos)
Coordinator: Eric Louie
In August, WiNSUG will host a moderated discussion where members share great tools, utilities, tips and techniques. Technical or business in nature, free or paid - no limitations. Have an idea for a presentation? Let’s hear it. And bring a friend or colleague; learn something new! Come with questions; get answers, maybe take home some swag!
Submit
presentation ideas to
winsug@gmail.com by
August 1. Include the proposed presentation title, a link to a web site if
relevant and a one or two sentence description. Suggestions might include
ideas like
www.dnsstuff.com,
www.logmein.com, Belarc, using mstsc console
command line, IE7 certificate installation, sure-fire ActiveSync configuration
of mobile devices or a useful process or function.
Each presentation will last just a few short minutes and include a QUICK summary, why it’s useful, a demo, and any relevant references for off-line follow-up. Time permitting, there may be a question or two. No PowerPoint presentations or long-winded introductions allowed.
Coordinator: Gregg Blundell
This presentation will cover the basics of group policy and how it is implemented in the SBS 2003 R2 environment. What you need to know to add new Group Policy Objects (GPO), modify existing group policies, and troubleshoot group policy problems in SBS 2003 R2 will be discussed. Best practices will be emphasized throughout the presentation. Burning questions will be answered, for example, “How can I manage the Microsoft Office configuration on my clients with group policy?” and “What happens to the configuration changes implemented by a GPO if I remove it?” Finally, a list of resources to learn more about group policy will be provided. If you have other group policy topics you would like to hear about, send an email to Rick Joyce at rjoyce@jnetservices.com.
Coordinator: Rick Joyce
Thinking
about migrating to Vista? Still have concerns?
Join us for an evening of information and networking.
Topics Include
· Why
Vista Business Edition?
· Vista
vs. Windows XP
· Ease
of Deployment
· Security,
Security, Security
· Bitlocker
and other laptop tools
· Ok..let’s
talk SP1
· Gaining
buy in from users.
· 10
easy steps to get people excited about Vista
· Vista
and 3rd party application compatibility
· Demos
and a Q&A session
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Presenter: Stephen Rose has over 15 years experience with Network design,
planning and implementation, project management, system path upgrading and
server virtualization.
He has worked with many Fortune 1000 companies including : 5th 3rd Bank
Corp, Quaker Oats, Ford Motor Company, Miller Brewing, US Department Of Justice
(Unicor), TPC At Rivers Bend, DMB&B (Detroit) The Pro Golfers Association (PGA,
NFL Alumni Association, St John’s Sleep Center, ADP Major Accounts
and National Accounts, OSI Systems, MS Society of Canada,
Clupedia.com, Pacific Western, Multiplied Media, and Proctor and Gamble.
His technical certifications include, MCSE, MCT, MCSA, MCP+I as well as a
myriad of Comptia certs.
In 2007, he was named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for
Connected Systems Developer.
Odyssey Consulting Group
Stephen L Rose –Partner / Network Specialist
MCSE, MCT, MCSA,
MCP+I, A+, CIW CI, CTT+, i-Net+, IT Project +, Linux+,
Network+, Security+, Server+, Master CIW, ACTT
Microsoft Connected Systems Developer MVP
877- OCG-PRO1 x 202 | srose@ocgpros.com | www.ocgpros.com
Fast Company Experts Blog -
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Door Prizes (must be present to win): TechNet Subscription, Vista Ultimate with Service Pack 1 software (NFR - 10 copies), large WiNSUG mugs (4 units), THE original WiNSUG mascot/teddy bear, plus more.
Free
for all: SMB Partner Community magazine and discount code for SMB Nation 2008 (www.smbnation.com)
Coordinator: Erik Pfeiffer
WINSUG Super Meeting for May! PICS from the meeting (photos by Gregory Martin)
This will be an SMB Summit review with lots of details you won't hear about anywhere on the West Coast! You'll get to see lots of slides covering many of the screens and features of SBS 2008/Cougar. The Deep Dive Technical Team will be there to share their knowledge and experiences. There will be some great door prizes (which are already in hand). Come with your questions and get answers. Yes it will be released in two editions: Standard and Premium.
Here's the Microsoft link to information on SBS 2008: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/essential/sbs/default.mspx
Coordinator: Erik Pfeiffer
This presentation will cover NOD32 which is made by eSet (http://www.eSet.com) and dig into how heuristics can detect malware. For those not familiar with NOD32, it is an antivirus product that is known for being particularly small and nimble; it is only a 15 MB download, and another 5 MB or so for the server component. They will cover a practical deployment example, why ESET excels technically and lots more. Whether you use this product (or something similar), have heard about it from others or are considering alternatives for yourself or your clients you will benefit by an expanded and more thorough understanding of what goes on behind the scenes. You may also be interested to know that NOD32's US headquarters is in downtown San Diego.
BIO:
Kirk Parker is the Product
Engineering Manager for ESET, LLC, and is one of its first
Chris
Metcalf is Vice President of
Special: The new Steering
Committee for 2008-2009 will be announced based on Yahoo Group election results.
Happy Birthday WiNSUG! You've been going strong for 4 years. Please join us for some cake & cookies & Starbucks Coffee.
Coordinator: Eric Louie
Eric
Chen, Inside Channel Account Manager & ClarenceD-Link® VoiceCenter™ for Microsoft® Response Point™ is an IP-based phone system designed for small- to medium-sized businesses. With support for up to 50 users, VoiceCenter provides numerous advantages over traditional PSTN (analog) phone systems while retaining the reliability of PSTN phone lines1 for accepting inbound and making outbound calls.
VoiceCenter
is easy to set up, manage and maintain. With the Response Point operating system
it takes less than 30 minutes to get the phone system up and running.
VoiceCenter is also portable. Businesses that need to relocate offices can easily take the phone system along. In addition, VoiceCenter provides state-of-the-art features such as voice-activated dialing and voicemail access, automated attendant for routing calls, call logs for managing phone usage and automatic phone and gateway discovery that allows for a simplified setup process.
Owning your own phone system is affordable and manageable with VoiceCenter and Response Point.Special: Candidates for the Steering Committee are encouraged to step forward at this time. Elections held via Yahoo Groups prior to April meeting.
Coordinator: Erik Pfeiffer
Kevin will be presenting Windows Home Server via Live Meeting. He has lots of great information on setting up and running this product. He will explain the architecture and purpose/benefits of WHS in both a home and business environment. There will be materials for those in attendance. This is a fun product and we'll all learn what it can and cannot do can and how it fits into the home and entertainment setting.
More at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/windowshomeserver/default.mspx
Since
1986, Kevin has been satisfying the needs of clients as an IT professional. As a
highly successful author and consultant, with both a programming and network
engineering background, he is a frequent public speaker at industry conferences
and public computer shows.
Kevin serves as President of the Cincinnati Network Professional Association, President of the Cincinnati Small Business Server Users Group, and sits on the board of the Information Technology Advisory Team for the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and CincyTechUSA. Kevin is married with a 20 year old daughter.
Kevin has been recognized by Microsoft as a leading expert on their Small Business Server product line. The “Most Valuable Professional” (MVP) designation is a rare honor that is bestowed on a small number of people each year. It recognizes product expertise, community leadership, and willingness to help others. Kevin is a nationally known Small Business Server expert, author, and regular speaker at industry conferences.
Kevin is a Computer Science graduate, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, and is certified by Microsoft for support of their Small Business Server products.
Coordinator: Karen Christian
SharePoint combines an extensible platform with rich functionality to enable enhanced communication and collaboration. After a review of WSS features, the remainder of the presentation will consist of two WSS demos:
Customizing a site using Internet Explorer
Customizing a site using SharePoint Designer
Along the way we will talk about lists, libraries and views (announcements, links, contacts, document, picture, calendar, events, and discussions), sites (subsites, workspaces, blog, and wiki), navigation (top links and quick launch), templates (site and list), workflows, authentication and permissions (rights trimmed).
Also, at the meeting this week there will be food from Chick-fil-A’s available for a $5 donation. There will be nuggets, strips, chicken sandwiches, chicken wraps, green salad, fruit salad, brownies and Starbucks coffee. You may also want to bring your own drink. Eats will begin at 6PM.
BIO: Larry Saunders is founder and owner of BlueSail Computing, a computer services company. He has worked with computer technology for 36 years including computer design, Computer Aided Design, computer and network administration, office productivity solutions, and web and computer programming. He spent 14 years at IBM and has worked as a computer industry consultant for the last 16 years, founding or co-founding three computer consulting companies. He is the author or co-author of over 75 technical articles and publications and was a contributing editor for Integrated Systems Design magazine for 3 years. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago and served 4 years in the US Marine Corps.
Coordinator: Rick Joyce
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Guest Presentation: MaxSP by Tim Wells, VP Sales
This will be a
change of pace from the regular genre for WiNSUG. Everyone is invited to
get together at Coleman College (library) to mingle and take a moment to share
something about your challenges from 2007 and upcoming 2008. Yes,
and there will be food! Go to
GUEST PRESENTATION:
From
6:30 to 7PM we will gather around and listen to a presentation by special guest
Tim Wells who is flying in from Sunnyvale. He represents MaxSP and will
tell us know about their company's product offerings and how they may work for
you and your clients. To find out more go to
www.maxsp.com.
In addition an informal technical demonstration will be available for those who would like to see the product in action starting at 7:15PM.
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 features many improvements over it's predecessor, not the least of which is a complete overhaul of installation and management tools. Come and learn about the differences between WSS 3.0 and WSS 2.0; how to install WSS 3.0 in various scenarios, including side-by-side with CompanyWeb in SBS 2003; improved user access control, including permissions down to the folder level; document recovery (recycle bin); improved backup and restore, support for mobile access, blogs, Wiki sites and RSS feeds; and much more. This isn't your 2003 Windows SharePoint Services!
Coordinator: Karen Christian
How do you maintain Macs in a Windows world? Think of them as a Windows
boxes! You just have to find the same/like technologies like TCP/IP,
Sharing and in coming and out going mail servers that are on your PCs.
Dan Beaulieu is an educated and experienced Microsoft Certified Professional
with 15 years extensive knowledge in the computer industry.
Responsible for building and maintaining IT infrastructure of Productive
Computing and All clients’ networks, including: Retrospect back-up strategies,
website design changes, desktop and server set up and maintenance, and the
research and purchase of all products.
We will take a look at
Microsoft’s Virtual PC 2007 product. What it is. How to get it.
What you can do with it. We’ll look at how to load and configure Virtual PC’s
and then explore some ways you can make use of these technologies TODAY.
*** Don’t have a dedicated
server in your office? It’s likely you have a PC under your desk with some
horsepower. We’ll demonstrate just what horsepower is or isn’t needed.
*** Use only a fraction of
what’s in your ActionPack each month? How would you like to try
applications and OS’s BEFORE having to use your client as a test bed?
*** Tired of messing with
multiple cables, keyboards, mice, network configurations, KVM switches and the
like? You may just like this friendly and flexible alternative.
This short session will get your
virtual feet wet and introduce you to some of the basic concepts behind
virtualization. We will plan a follow-up session sometime in the future
to move to Virtual Server technologies and meet-up with Rick’s fine case-study
from a few months back (thanks Rick!)
Case Study:
Kris
Alandy and Rick Van Ackeren from TEKsystems
www.teksystems.com will share how their staffing and recruiting services
business can work for you. They offer short and long term opportunities
for you and possible business referrals for contacts who are in need of an
outsourced consultant.
And an extra special thanks to TEKsystems for sponsoring the pizza and sodas this evening.
Coordinator: Karen Christian
Fred Liebel, an Insurance professional is our guest and keynote speaker this
evening. His information for any small business or self employed
Consultant is invaluable and really, a must.
Fred presented at SMBTN San Diego a few months ago and everyone agreed how
interesting and beneficial the presentation was. His company offers
comprehensive custom commercial insurance packages.
He discusses in applicable detail the laws covering liability, workman's comp,
independent contractor definitions per California Law. At the SMBTN
meeting most of the consultants learned how many of their concepts in these
areas were wrong. And just how much issues in these areas could affect
their own financial assets and well being.
Contact Info:
Michael
Ehrenfeld Company - Insurance Brokers & Agents
2655 Camino Del Rio N. Suite 200, San Diego, CA 92108
Phone: (619) 683-9990 ext. 103 Fax: (619) 683-9999
Coordinator: Jeremy Webster/Kevin Keane
July 5, 2007
Fellow member Rick Joyce will give us a hands-on
demonstration of how he utilizes Virtualization to run his own very successful
consulting practice.
Coordinator: Karen Christian
Learn about Group Policies and how they can help you better manage your accounts.
Answer questions like:
How do I set up Group Policies?
What can Group Policies do?
When should I not use Group Policies?
What are Group Policy templates?
Presented by Ted Barrow, MCSE
THB Consulting
Coordinator: Erik Pfeiffer
Erick Simpson of Intelligent Enterprises http://www.ienterprise.us/ will discuss the practical concept of Managed Services rather than pushing any particular vendor. His company has the income to back up its success. He has real world experience in this area and will share the successful proof in their own organization of what it really is.
Erick's 'Intelligent Enterprise’s Guide to Managed Services' is now available! Learn how Erick Simpson and Intelligent Enterprise transitioned from a “Break-Fix” business Model to a tremendously successful Managed Services I.T. Business in less than 12 months. Intelligent Enterprise’s Guide to Managed Services documents 3 years of proprietary research, development and Managed Services implementation know-how, and illustrate the reasons that Intelligent Enterprise felt it a business necessity to move to Managed Services. You can get more information on Erick's book, "The Guide to a Successful Managed Services Practice – What Every SMB IT Service Provider Should Know…"! at http://www.smbnation.com/Managed%20Services.htm.
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All WiNSUG meetings start at 6:30PM with the featured presenter starting at about 6:45PM.
Case Study:
Jeff Adzima is going to discuss an ideal Managed Services client he picked up.
Coordinator: Jeremy Webster
Case Study:
Tony Su is going to showcase BitTorrent and how that all works. He also has many tricks up his sleeve. Here's the wiki on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent
Special: Election results announced and new Steering Committee installed.
Coordinator: Jeff Adzima
March
1, 2007
Office 2007 Integration with SharePoint presented by Todd
Rowe. For those of you who remember him from prior year's presentations,
he usually shows a few PPT slides and then dives into some hands-on demos that
are really applicable to what can be done.
Todd is responsible for promoting the value of the Microsoft Office System (which includes Microsoft Office, Microsoft Live Communications Server, Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, and Microsoft Content Management Server) for customers in the Southern California District. Todd works with the Office product team to drive futures, strategy and features. Prior to this role Todd worked with the Application Platform Strategy group focusing on delivering the .NET message and supported the Microsoft .NET servers (including Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Host Integration Server, Microsoft Content Management Server). Todd has a consulting background in both application development and infrastructure, and prior to his career at Microsoft he was a director of consulting services for a managed partner in the local region.
Todd will be live at this meeting. Other times Todd has presented, the after-presentation Q&A sessions were as awesome as the presentations.
Case Study:
Erik Pfeiffer, Silver Ace Consulting, will demonstrate this major upgrade (firmware hack) for the Linksys WGRT54 router with a lot of cool stuff.
Special: Candidates for the Steering Committee are encouraged to step forward at this time. Elections held via Yahoo Groups prior to April meeting.
Coordinator: Karen Christian
Find out more about C.A.T.C.H. at http://www.catchteam.org/.
BIO: Mr. Hendron is a criminal investigator with the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office. Mr. Hendron has been in law enforcement for 24 years. Mr. Hendron’s current assignment is with the Computer and Technology Crime High-Tech Response Team (CATCH Team), which is a multi-agency high-tech crimes task force operating in San Diego, Imperial and Riverside Counties in California. Mr. Hendron investigates high technology crime and also serves as a computer forensics examiner. Mr. Hendron is published in the area of computer forensics, having published for various local law enforcement periodicals, law enforcement Internet sites and various law enforcement groups. Mr. Hendron is a court-qualified expert in computer forensics, having testified in California superior courts and federal court as an expert in data recovery, computer forensics and Internet crimes, among other subjects. Mr. Hendron teaches nation wide on high technology crimes, including computer forensics and Internet-based crime investigations.
Case Study:
Dan Beaulieu, Director of IT Services at Productive Computing, Inc. will show his backup strategy for his company and what he recommends for his clients. The key to backing up is not just to set it up and forget it, but to check it out and often!
Coordinator: Erik Pfeiffer
This will be a change of pace from the hectic and stressful life
that most IT pros embrace. We'll all get together and celebrate the
professional and personal connections we each have and take a moment to share
something about our backgrounds and also something unique about each of us.
Yes, and there will be food! Go to
http://tech.
Coordinator: Karen Christian
Malicious software or malware, can be used in many different ways, from transferring files to sending out spam to keylogging to sniffing network traffic. Since there is a multitude of ways that malware can be distributed (free download sites, physical media, web browser vulnerabilities, etc.) it is not uncommon for your computer to be exposed to this threat. This presentation will explain how to manually detect and remove malware using free tools. Actual demonstrations will be performed with the software using virtual machines. The presentation will conclude by discussing recommended strategies for Malware prevention.
John Bisaillon is a Technical Instructor for Systems Computer Training, Inc., of Carlsbad, CA. John is Systems’ chief security instructor and has developed a comprehensive series of hands-on security courses.
Before coming to Systems, he performed a mixture of systems administration and consulting work. John had traveled the country teaching Microsoft and security courses for two different nationwide training companies. He edited the computer networking book "TCP/IP on Windows NT Illustrated" (McGraw-Hill)./ /He also co-developed several Windows 2003/ 2000 courses for a local university, where he achieved the awarded */"Instructor of the Quarter"./* John has achieved the certifications: CISSP, SCNP, MCSE (2003/2000/NT), CCNA, CEH, Security +, Network +, A+, MCT. He also obtained Masters and Bachelors degrees in Engineering.
Interesting and comprehensive topic you won't want to miss. Silver Ace how many slides will you have this time?
Coordinator: Erik Pfeiffer
The Quick Read:
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Case Study:
Hold onto your seats and listen up as this 15 minute case study is going to be a turbo-charged recap of the highlights of SMB Nation 2006. Rick & Gregg will team up to share the best of the best in case you couldn't be there yourself. There is so much to see an do no one person can see and do it all!
Coordinator: Jeff Adzima
Special Event: Southern CA Geek Beach Bash - An End of Summer Party
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Oceanside Harbor, Oceanside, CA. All members & their family & friends of all user groups in Southern California are invited to join in the fun and festivities. We'll all get together for burgers and hot dogs under the covered eating area to have some good, clean fun together. This will be a shared event where everyone brings something to the event. Check back here for updates as available. The sunsets are always great this time of year.
Special Event: Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Partner Group Tour
WiNSUG in honored to have been selected this year to host the hugely successful SMB tour this year (organized by Mike Iem). There will be several top notch Microsoft representatives sharing their insight into the SBS/SMB products. This event is targeted at IT professionals. It will be on Wednesday, September 13 at the Microsoft office in San Diego (and in Irvine on September 14) and will be from 6PM - 9PM. We will need a few volunteers to help with communication, registration desk, food planning, and premium give-a-ways. Volunteers may sign up in the Yahoo Group under Database, MS SMB Tour. This event is held in cooperation with Art Pettigrue who has secured the Microsoft office locations. This is an RSVP event (but free to attend) so register now!
Wireless was one of the most highly rated topics in our survey to see what members wished to see covered at meetings. This meeting is planned to be a panel discussion of real world experiences with setting up appliances, planning networks, adding in, configuring, working all things wireless. We look forward to hearing recommendations on reliable solutions and warnings against problematic ones.
This is your group and your topic! If you have some expertise in this area, please contact Jeremy Webster, the meeting coordinator techytech@gmail.com or 858.922.5878. The original meeting was being put together by our good and much missed friend Mark Buffington and we know he was hoping for some lively debate in arguing the finer points of wireless technology.
Case Study:
Jackson will share his experience in using Symantec LiveState Recovery for bare metal restore and for daily use within his company.
Coordinator: Jeremy Webster
Windows 2003 Server R2 offers several significant new features that could well justify the cost of upgrading including a new Distributed File System capability, improved File Server Resource Management and improved Printer Management. Server R2 also provides MMC, IIS and SharePoint improvements. Demos of various key features will also be included in the presentation.
BIO: Larry Saunders is founder and owner of BlueSail Computing, a computer services company. He has worked with computer technology for 36 years including computer design, Computer Aided Design, computer and network administration, office productivity solutions, and web and computer programming. He spent 14 years at IBM and has worked as a computer industry consultant for the last 16 years, founding or co-founding three computer consulting companies. He is the author or co-author of over 75 technical articles and publications and was a contributing editor for Integrated Systems Design magazine for 3 years. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago and served 4 years in the US Marine Corps.
Case Study:
During the 15 minute case study, Jeremy Webster will share some of the cool resources available to support your business.
Coordinator: Rick Joyce
Erik
will review old bootable environments for dead boxes and demonstrate how to
create a new bootable CD to hack a local box. He will create the CD, load
tools and then run it against a system. This will be done to change
passwords, copy files, and also remove viruses and Malware. He will also
demonstrate how to audit hidden data.
BIO: Erik Pfeiffer is the owner of Silver Ace Consulting. He has been an independent consultant since 2002. Erik provides onsite IT services to small businesses and home offices. He is a security nut, and not all of it relates to computers. He is involved in a local 2600 group. 2600 is basically dedicated to ethical hacking. For fun he even hacked his Xbox and Linksys WRT54G router.
Case Study:
During the 15 minute case study, Jeff Adzima will share his recent experience in getting a website up and running on a second server in an SBS 2003 environment. External access was required for this project. The end result is that it is working now but we can all relate to the myriad of challenges that can arise during the process.
Special Note: There will be 4 pizzas with soda (compliments of Culminis) available at 6PM. No guarantee how long they will last :-)
Coordinator: Karen Christian
This was presented at Coleman College with Jocelin joining us via Office Live Meeting. She focused on the Open License programs, the differences and the offerings for each flavor. She also added a short delivery on CAL licensing, a topic that frequently comes up as an unclear point.
Jocelin Arakawa, Licensing Specialist - SMS&P West Region, SoCal has the primary role to assist with a licensing program solution that would meet the customer's needs. She is conversant on the program and product licensing however she adds the caveat that in some configurations, Microsoft's technology provides some licensing challenges even for Licensing Specialists.
BIO: Jocelin has been with Microsoft for nearly 10 years in a variety of roles, primarily in the Sales organization. She has been in her current role of Licensing Specialist for two years. As a Licensing Specialist she comes into contact with a multitude of individuals, customers and Partners of all kinds. Her area of expertise lies in the Microsoft licensing programs and aligning the customer with the most appropriate program. Her tenure at Microsoft has allowed her to experience the changes in both products and programs, a most interesting journey.
She currently lives in a very small town in Western Washington amidst cows and horses, quite a change from the sunny shores of her birthplace in Hawaii. Raised and married in Hawaii, then moving to the "mainland" to experience the larger world with her family.
Coordinator: Jeremy Webster
Malware by Lance James
The following profile is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_James
Lance
James is an American computer scientist, considered an
expert on computer security techniques such as anti-phishing. He
has been quoted on the subject in multiple media outlets,
including CBC, CNN, the BBC, "As It Happens", the David Lawrence
Show, ZDNet, Wired News, CSO, USA Today, Fox
News, and the Washington Post.
He was born in 1978 in Wenatchee, Washington. His father was a Marine, and his mother was a diplomat working in the Canadian foreign service. His maternal grandfather Eric Maughan, is notable for being a centenarian, having turned 100 on August 31, 2005.
Because of his father's career, the family moved often, and James attended multiple high schools, from North Carolina to Burnaby North Secondary School, in Burnaby British Columbia (the same school that Michael J. Fox graduated from), and Mount Vernon High School in Mount Vernon, Washington (state), where he graduated. His first career was as a musician. He studied violin under Sherry Kloss, and then played jazz flamenco music in various locations in San Diego, with the band "Gatos Papacitos," playing violin and occasionally keyboards. At one point he was managed by Marcus Breaux ("Chance Styles"), until Breaux's untimely death.
In October 2001, James founded invisiblenet.net, a distributed cryptographic framework for the internet for anonymity and privacy.
In 2003, James founded "Secure Science Corporation", where he is currently CTO. SSC provides intelligence-based services and products for computer forensics and anti-phishing applications, providing information to major financial institutions and law enforcement agencies.
James has been a keynote speaker at Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force meetings, and several major universities, including the University of Madison, Wisconsin's "Takedown" conference, in 2005. He also speaks at several law enforcement agencies and the Pentagon.
James was married in 2002, and lives with his wife and children in San Diego.
Phishing Exposed, 2005, Syngress, ISBN 159749030X, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159749030X/103-7919370-2191861?v=glance&n=283155
Manage Your
Business with HoundDog by Karen Christian
As
your IT consulting practice grows you absolutely must find ways to better manage
your expanding list of clients. A recent discovery (and a new company
stateside) is HoundDog (www.hound-dog.us).
Karen will demonstrate how North County Technology Group (NCTG) has implemented
this web-based solution, how it works and what it can mean to you. When
you want a simple and low-cost (no contracts required) solution that just plain
works, you'll want to check this out!
Coordinator: Rick Joyce
Case Study: Setting Up a SharePoint Extranet Site by Rick Joyce
PLUS: WiNSUG 2nd Year Anniversary Celebration
Ofer covered all the ins and outs of installing and using IMF in conjunction with Exchange 2003 SP2.
Rick shared his expertise in the are of SharePoint site setup in a brief case study.
Food and fun for everyone! It was great. Domino's pizzas & sodas donated by Culminis. Happy Birthday WiNSUG!
Coordinator: Jeff Adzima
What's new and what's worth checking out! Presented by our own Larry Saunders, BlueSail Computing. Awesome door prizes!
Our next WiNSUG meeting is coming up fast The featured topic is Office 12. Todd Rowe, Sr. Technology Specialist at Microsoft Corporation in the Business Productivity Group will be our presenter.
Todd is responsible for promoting the value of the Microsoft Office System (which includes Microsoft Office, Microsoft Live Communications Server, Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, and Microsoft Content Management Server) for customers in the Southern California District. Todd works with the Office product team to drive futures, strategy and features. Prior to this role Todd worked with the Application Platform Strategy group focusing on delivering the .NET message and supported the Microsoft .NET servers (including Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Host Integration Server, Microsoft Content Management Server). Todd has a consulting background in both application development and infrastructure, and prior to his career at Microsoft he was a director of consulting services for a managed partner in the local region.
Todd will be live at this meeting. Other times Todd has presented, the after-presentation Q&A sessions were as awesome as the presentations. The presentation will also be available on Office Live Meeting. The OLM information for attendees will be posted soon.
Leo Loro, Microsoft via Office Live Meeting
Practical information that a small IT provider (1-5) person company can plug into his or her arsenal.
Food for thought/consideration:
Other items for review:
Holiday Get Together 2005 - 12/8/05
Mark your calendars for Thursday, December 8 starting at 6PM. We'll gather at Hacienda de Vega in Escondido for a good time for members, family and friends. This is a no host event. There is a great atmosphere and plenty of refreshment and food options. They have an open patio area with a pond and waterfall. There is an outside bar and meals are served under covered and heated areas.
The address is 2608 S Escondido Blvd, Escondido 92025. The phone number is 760-738-9805. Hope to see you there.
Rob Ayer, Director Network Operations for RedWire, will be discussing the realities of VoIP -- the good, the bad, and the ugly. VoIP is one of the hottest technologies around right now, but it's also one of the most misunderstood. In mid-2004 RedWire implemented its own VoIP network. Rob was involved from the beginning and will share his experiences setting up the network and dealing with customers. You'll find out what kinds of businesses and clients are good candidates for VoIP (and which aren't), learn about some of the gotchas of VoIP, and some of the realistic benefits. There will be a live VoIP feature demonstration and some VoIP demos to take home and experiment with.
Also attending: Michael Zadiek - Sales and Anthony Nykios - Product Development
The Windows Networking Solutions User Group (WiNSUG) meeting on Thursday, November 3, 2005 will include the following:
6:30PM Opening by Rick Joyce, Steering Committee Member
You have the option to tune in via the Internet or attend in person the WiNSUG (Windows Networking Solutions User Group) meeting this month at 6:30PM. The feature presentation on Vista will start at 7PM and the Office Live Meeting session will be broadcast via VOIP and requires Windows Media Player 9 or higher. There are plenty of slots available so sign up at the following link and we hope to see you there. Onsite attendees will have access to some light refreshments and can participate in a drawing for several door prizes at the conclusion of the meeting.
For Office Live Meeting (remote attendees) please go to the following, register and you will receive the required link information.
Registration site:
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Event Code:
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M. Simonne Hinkle, Microsoft PTS SMS&P, presents Vista (via PPT) and the key message will be in the following four areas:
The Vista value proposition relates to customer business objectives such as:
Join us this evening for a bit of a departure from our standard fare. This meeting will be a little less formal yet informative. We will provide timely information, review some material and work to help one another. Come prepared to share a little, ask questions and lend a helping hand as needed.
Windows Genuine Advantage Program
Presented by Karen Christian
SMB Nation Recap
Overview by Karen Christian with discussion by all participants in attendenace
Technical Round Table
Led by Mark Buffington
We
are extremely pleased to have Amy Babinchak, President and Lead Technology
Consultant for Harbor Computer Services from Michigan (http://www.harborcomputerservices.net)
presenting the ins and outs of ISA 2004 this evening. If this is a server
application you have been curious about or have had the opportunity (or guts) to
install and support, this is a meeting you won't want to miss. Amy will
provide some comparisons between ISA 2004 and its predecessor ISA 2000.
She will also share some very interesting points regarding other firewall
solutions available on the market and points to ponder. Where is that next
potential big attack going to come from and how is it going to manifest itself?
She has extensive experience in working with ISA 2004 in an SBS 2003 environment
and will be available to explain things in simple, understandable terms as well
as delve into the technical details of the product. This meeting will be
available via Office Live Meeting but registration is required for access via
this method.
Here is a list of the top 5 items to be covered during the presentation:
1. Overview of the MMC - there's hidden gold in there
2. After install configuration suggestions
3. Setting up reports
4. Creating Rules and allowing SSL ports
5. What to do about apps that won't authenticate
And here are a few links you may want to check out in the meantime:
Amy Babinchak's ISA/SBS Series: Configuring Trend Micro CSM for SSL with ISA Server 2000:
Amy Babinchak’s ISA/SBS Series: How to Synchronize SBS2003 Premium with an External Time Source:
This meeting is available via Office Live Meeting and will require a broadband connection to view the PPT and see the shared desktop (for demos) and a phone for the audio. You must register at the link below. It will start at 6:45PM on Thursday, September 1 and continue until about 9PM PST (with a short break in the middle). If you plan to attend in person (www.winsug.org) you should NOT register via the link which will reserve one of the 100 online openings. We can also accommodate up to about 50 people at Coleman College, San Marcos in the library (where the meeting is held).
Office
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BIO:
Amy has over 12 years of experience in a wide variety of computer networks. Before forming Harbor Computer Services she was employed in the environmental services, health care and educational sectors as a computer network technician. She holds certifications as an MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer), CNA (Certified Novell Administrator), and CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Administrator). She is a member of the Microsoft Business Solutions Council, and this year has been nominated for Microsoft's prestigious Most Valuable Professional in Internet Acceleration Server, Microsoft's premier firewall.
What do you know about VoIP? How does it fit into the small business picture? Great hand-on and detailed presentation. http://www.vonexus.com/
We are pleased to have Mark Waelde present the latest information about HP's current program offerings at our July meeting. Help your business grow with an industry leader who values your business and pays attention to the needs of the SMB customer/client.
Comprehensive support for your IT environment
HP Smart Support for SMB features a comprehensive and flexible approach that makes it easy for you to create a program of support that’s right for you and your business. The HP Smart Support portfolio offers solutions in four areas that SMB owners like you have identified as being the most important to their operations and success:
Mobility
HP Wireless LAN Site Assessment Services
HP Wireless LAN Installation and Startup
HP End-User Support and Training
HP ProLiant Server Support
HP Business Protection Services
HP Security Vulnerability Assessment
HP Smart Desktop Management
HP ProLiant System Minder for SMB
An overview can be found at http://www.hp.com/sbso/services/SmartSupport.pdf
Meeting Agenda
Bio:
Mark Waelde is a Sales Professional with over 10 years experience in channel sales. Mark Waelde is a Partner Business Manager for HP Services which is the HP Care Pack Product Line including the SMB Smart Support Portfolio. A graduate of Cal-State University Fullerton, he lives in Southern California and is based out of the HP Anaheim Sales Office. Mark's role in channel services is to educate, evangelize, enable, and execute sales plans with two major HP distribution partners, Ingram Micro and Synnex. HP distributors have a special role in driving new business with SMB Resellers that sell into the SMB end user space.
Office 2003 Integration with SharePoint presented by Todd Rowe. For those of you who remember him from last year's presentation, he demonstrated a few PPT slides and then dove into some hands-on demos that are really applicable to what can be done.
BIO:
Todd Rowe works as a Sr. Technology Specialist at Microsoft Corporation in the Business Productivity Group. Currently in his role Todd is responsible for promoting the value of the Microsoft Office System (which includes Microsoft Office, Microsoft Live Communications Server, Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, Microsoft Content Management Server) for customers in the Southern California District. Todd works with the SharePoint product team to drive futures, strategy and features to drive and deliver the Microsoft portal vision. Prior to this role Todd worked with the Application Platform Strategy group focusing on delivering the .NET message and supported the Microsoft .NET servers (including Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Host Integration Server, Microsoft Content Management Server). Todd has a consulting background in both application development and infrastructure and prior to his career at Microsoft he was a director of consulting services for a managed partner in the local region.
Matt Hester, Microsoft TechNet presenter for the Great Lakes region covered the latest information about upcoming Service Pack 1 for SBS 2003. In addition, David Copeland, Lead SBS Support Engineer was on hand for more technical questions. This service pack will be available within the next two months.
The May 5 presentation is available by clicking here. Exchange IMF Resources are also available.
BIO: Matt Hester is a TechNet Presenter on the Microsoft® Seminar Sales Team (SST). Prior to joining the SST Matt was a Messaging and Collaboration Technology Specialist. Matt has several years' experience with Microsoft core infrastructures products (Windows®, Active Directory®, Exchange…etc.) and is a Microsoft® Exchange Server Insider. He has additional expertise in the business value of technology including using Meta and Gartner tools. Prior to joining Microsoft, Matt taught MSCE curricula at MCT for over 8 years.
We celebrated our official one year anniversary with food and friends. It was a bit of a potluck event with the dish from Rubio's Fresh Mexican Grill. We even had a specially made cake during our break!
We had a short presentation on Pre-Paid Legal Services (www.prepaidlegal.com) by Elaine White, a San Diego based attorney followed by the keynote presentation which included a panel presentation/discussion on consulting businesses that are up and running. We all had an opportunity to learn from others in the field working to manage their business and continuing to grow in this competitive environment. The panel included an independent consultant: John Rubino (www.rubinonet.net), a general partner: Michael Brunson (www.nctg.com), and Jeff Adzima: a corporation (www.lasrlink.com). Our own Paula Mellon (aka Barbra Walters) moderated and kept everyone focused on the topic.
The informal after meeting discussions in lots of small groups continued for quite sometime and it was great to see everyone having a good time and looking forward to our next year.
Find out how to utilize Exchange 2003 features to get email on mobile devices. Presenter Ofer Shimrat showed us how it can be done as well as what works and what doesn't. Here was an opportunity to learn from a pro who has direct experience. Click here for the online viewing of the PPT. Click on 'Slide Show' in the lower right hand corner to see it with animation (cool).
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BIO:
Ofer Shimrat has been developing database applications for a variety of industries including hospitality, event production, medical research, construction and engineering since 1991. During deployment of these applications in networked environments it quickly became clear to Ofer that not all networks are designed and built the same - that is, some network administrators are better than others. As a result, in early 2000, Ofer plunged into the networking world, and utilizing rigorous database modeling approaches, learned to take advantage of the many features currently available with network technologies. When properly designed and implemented, current hardware and software technologies afford the very fastest throughput and performance that is critical for reliable and scalable database deployment and operations across the network. Now in 2005, with a solid background of both database and networking, Ofer is uniquely positioned to tackle productivity challenges for his clientele with a more robust overview to make it all happen. For contact information go to http://www.soundoffcomputing.com/.
This was the third of a special three meeting series on backup & restore technologies and methodologies. Our presenter, Paul Fitzgerald is the Microsoft SBS Backup Program Manager. This meeting was presented via Microsoft Office Live Meeting. If you work with Small Business Server this is a meeting you shouldn't have missed. Here's the PPT if you want to check it out.
BIO: "I was on the original team that was created back in 1995 to understand if a server product could be built that would be viable for small businesses. It was a pet project of Steve Ballmer's. It was clear that he saw the potential for the company plus a real need for small businesses. After joining the team I quickly learned that he was right.
My initial focus was testing. I owned all testing of SBS 4.0 and had a team of 5 people. As the product and team grew I focused on platform integration (getting the server applications to run when installed on the same server). I also owned all network related testing.
I am the oldest member of the SBS team and the only one left from the original team. I was answering newsgroup posts back in 1996 and met a lot of great people on the way.. a few of them are SBS MVPs today.
During the SBS 2003 cycle I was asked to move to Program Management to work on some of the client setup issues. I now own backup/restore and migration. I am a huge fan of our partners and the new community work we are doing.
We need the partners to help us define the next generation of SBS products."
We also had a presentation by Tony Su on Password Security. He covered topics such as brute force cracking possibilities, cracking dictionaries, security of the passphrase and the effectiveness of password policy. Tony is very active in the networking community and is Architect of the Revolutionary Enterprise PDA and Mobile Phone Foundation, extending Line of Business to the Mobile Workforce! His site is located at http://www.su-networking.com/. You can go there, create an account, login and download the PPT files under Whitepapers (link at top of page) titled "A Practical Approach to Password Construction".
This is the second of a special three meeting series on backup & restore technologies and methodologies. Come to listen, learn and ask questions. We are pleased to have as our presenter, Curt Hawkins, MarketStar-ESS Channel Trainer with the Hewlett Packard--Channel Training Team. He is flying in from Utah for this meeting. The presentation will be "HP heavy" talking about their latest and greatest offerings and their competitive advantages in the tape world.
This was the first of a special three meeting series on backup & restore technologies and methodologies. This session was lead by Yoram Baltinester (Steering Committee member). This presented an opportunity to get fully immersed in the tremendously critical business support requirement for data and system recovery. Awesome Q&A.
There were two representatives from Yosemite Technologies (a leader and specialist in the world of backups) in attendance. Presentation emphasis was on the following:
Backup consideration: tape vs. disk vs. d2d2t
Network scenarios, various servers topologies, multi site etc.
Backup best practices
Restore best practices
Disaster recovery vs. backup
Backing up special files: SQL / Exchange / other databases / open files
The relationship between backup and volume shadowing
Website: http://yosemitetech.com/index.htm
Key Speaker Info- Jake Swim, WW Senior OEM Systems Engineer and Russ Covey, Senior WW Channel Systems Engineer
Jake Swim works as the World Wide Sales Engineer for Yosemite Technologies on the OEM Sales team. Currently in his role, Jake is responsible for all technical issues as they relate to the Yosemite's World Wide OEM Sales team. Prior to this role, Jake was employed at Computer Associates and was responsible for developing the Storage practice for Channel Partners. Jake was originally on the Cheyenne System Engineering team prior to the Computer Associates acquisition of Cheyenne. Jake has an extensive background in the tape device, storage management and archival business. Before entering the storage management field, Jake worked in various network consulting roles supporting Netware, Windows and Banyan networks.
You may have heard about it, now you can learn about it! Karen Christian and Michael Brunson will presented the overview and detailed process review of the Swing Migration as developed by Jeff Middleton (www.sbsmigration.com) on Thursday, November 4. With two production client 'swings' under their belt (so far) and another scheduled in mid-November 2004, this will be an opportunity to learn all about the techniques that are employed. The actual 'production swing' experiences so far has been from SBS 2000 to SBS 2003 using the original server hardware. The next swing will be to new server hardware. Rick Joyce will be available to add his take from his observations of the process also.
If you're considering upgrades on servers for small businesses somewhere in the future, finding out what this is, how it works and the pros and cons of other methods is definitely worthwhile. The process can be applied to Windows NT, SBS 4.x, SBS 2000, SBS 2003, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, and various versions of Exchange.
We had a great meeting on Thursday, October 7 which included a presentation by two Special Agents from the San Diego FBI office. Lori Jensen and Chris Nelson are with the Computer Crime Squad and we look forward to an interesting and informative evening. The topics will cover the general workings of the FBI, a special program called 'InfraGard' (guarding the infrastructure, http://www.infragard.net/) and an explanation and discussion about the various types of computer crimes in the area. This will be supportive of the work we do to help our businesses remain safe and secure. As business owners look to us (their IT support staff - in-house or outsourced) for all things computer related, we need to be prepared for the possibility that we will need a solid understanding of the current landscape and legal process.
The meeting was very interesting, entertaining (Chris sure loves those aerial shots) and made everyone think (where do they keep their guns?). We all learned something :)
Todd Rowe was the presenter at the September 2 meeting. He covered SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services. His presentation was well received and there was clearly more material that could have been covered beyond the 2 1/2 hours that evening. I'm sure everyone there will agree that we want to invite him back in the future for more on one of the several products in which he specializes (and there are many as we found out). As a bonus, there were 3 copies of Windows 2003 Server (NFR) given away too. Whether you were brand new to SharePoint or had some tougher technical questions regarding the products, Todd sent everyone home with knowledge and exposure to these awesome products that make us all want to jump in, implement and sing the virtues of the amazing features and how they will support our businesses and our clientele.
A comprehensive presentation about the upcoming changes offered by Windows XP SP2 was presented by Chris Avis, Microsoft TechNet presenter.
Rick Joyce, JNet Services, San Marcos CA
Opening and General Information
Tony Su, Su Network Consulting, San Diego CA
Architecting Support for the Mobile Workforce
Rick Joyce, JNet Services, San Marcos CA
Larry Schulties, PMellon and Associates, Valley Center CA
Karen Christian, North County Technology Group, Carlsbad CA
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