TechNet User Group Tour – Windows 7 Cometh!
During February and March I’m going to be going around Australia talking about all the goodness in 
Windows Server 2008 R2 and the Windows 7 Client to the User Group community. There has been a lot of buzz around Windows 7 in particular and I know a lot of IT Pro’s are very interested in what the R2 version of Windows Server 2008 has to offer. So I’m going to do 2 sessions at each user group meeting; one on the server 
and one on the client. Below is a quick summary:
Title: Windows Server 2008 R2 – Technical Overview
Abstract: In this session we’ll provide a technical update on the Windows Server 2008 R2 beta. Technologies covered include Virtualization and in particular Hyper-V with Live Migration; new management features such as PowerShell 2.0; new Web workload features and how R2 is a solid foundation for your enterprise with new features such as DirectAccess and BranchCache. There will be several demo’s in this session to give you a hands-on look at some of these new and exciting features.
Title: Windows 7 – An Update for IT Pro’s
Abstract: The Windows 7 beta is here and everyone’s talking about it. In this session we’ll discuss what Windows 7 means for the IT Pro and enterprises and mid-market customers in general. Technologies covered include DirectAccess, BranchCache, Federated Search, Bitlocker to Go and the ways in which Windows 7 streamlines PC management. Demo’s include DirectAccess, BranchCache, Bitlocker to Go, User Account Control changes and many of the management changes.
Of course these abstracts are just a guideline as I always know that User Group sessions can go in any direction. So I’ve been working with all the User Group leads to lock in dates. Below is what I have so far. I will update this as soon as other dates get locked in.
| City | User Group | Date and Time | Location | User Group Website - Registration |
| Adelaide | Adelaide SBS and Adelaide SharePoint Combining for the March meeting | Monday March 30th 6:00PM – 9:00PM | Microsoft Adelaide Level 2, Westpac House, King William Street, Adelaide, SA 5000 |
https://www.sbsusers.net/ https://www.sharepointusers.org.au/Adelaide/default.aspx |
| Brisbane | Brisbane Infrastructure Group Brisbane SharePoint Group | Tuesday February 10th 2009 5:30PM – 8:00PM | Microsoft Brisbane 1 Eagle Street Brisbane | https://aususergroups.org/Default.aspx?alias=aususergroups.org/big https://www.sharepointusers.org.au/Brisbane/default.aspx |
| Brisbane | Brisbane Security Group | Wednesday February 11th 5:30PM – 7:00PM | Microsoft Brisbane 1 Eagle Street Brisbane | Email Wade Alcorn @ wade@ngssoftware.com for more details. |
| Brisbane | Brisbane SMB IT | Tuesday March 3rd 5:00PM – 8:00PM | Microsoft Brisbane 1 Eagle Street Brisbane | https://www.smbitpro-brisbane.com.au/ |
| Canberra | Canberra Security Interchange | Wednesday March 4th 5:30PM – 7:00PM | Microsoft Canberra Level 2 44 Sydney Avenue Barton ACT 2600 | https://www.aususergroups.org/Default.aspx?alias=www.aususergroups.org/security |
| Melbourne | Melbourne SMB IT | Wednesday February 25th 6:00PM – 9:30PM | Melbourne PC User Group Level 2 Chadstone Place Chadstone Shopping Centre | https://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Melb-SBSusers/ |
| Melbourne | Melbourne Security Interchange | Thursday February 26th 5:30PM – 7:30PM | Microsoft Melbourne Level 5, 4 Freshwater Place, Southbank, VIC | https://www.aususergroups.org/Default.aspx?tabid=935 |
| Perth | Perth Infrastructure Perth SMB IT Combined Meeting | Thursday March 19th 5:00PM – 8:30PM | Microsoft Perth Level 14, 250 St George's Terrace PERTH WA 6000 | https://www.aususergroups.org/Default.aspx?alias=www.aususergroups.org/pig https://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/smbitproperth/ |
| Sydney | Sydney Windows Infrastructure | TBD | Microsoft Sydney 1 Epping Road North Ryde NSW 2113 | |
| Sydney | SMB IT Pro’s Sydney | Tuesday March 10th 6:00PM – 8:30PM | Microsoft Sydney 1 Epping Road North Ryde NSW 2113 | https://www.smbitpro.com.au/default.aspx |
If you can’t make it to one of the user group meetings above we will be holding separate TechNet Live events for each topic during February and March. I will post those details in a separate post.
If you want more contact details of each user group check out the TechNet Australia User Group site powered by Microsoft Virtual Earth.
So that’s about it. I hope to be able to catch up with many of you as I travel around and look forward to showing you some of the real cool stuff in both Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7! See you there!
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