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3/10/2009Back in February, the Microsoft Canada IT Pro Team blogged about the upcoming Energize IT 2009 tour and dates, following the release of the February TechNet Flash Newsletter. The blogosphere and the twitterverse has been abuzz with activities as IT folk like you have been registering to attend nation-wide, including Winnipeg! Numbers are looking very positive so far, and there are some venues that have hit capacity and are now running on waitlists. We’re not at that point (yet) in Winnipeg, but the registrations are starting to hit our target attendance numbers. If you are planning to come out in April for Energize IT 2009 in Winnipeg, don’t hesitate, do it now! The event is only a month away! I’ve had the privilege to attend Energize IT a couple of years ago in Toronto – it was a great experience, and if there wasn’t a Canadian tour this year, I’m certain that I would be attending again. The dynamics will be different with this being a local event, however it will be your best opportunity to see the products that are coming from Microsoft in the near term – products that will have an impact on your work and what you can get excited about today! All of the nation-wide event information can be found by pointing a browser at www.energizeIT.ca. - User Group Connection: Future of the Platform. Register
- Energize IT: From the Client to the Cloud. Register
- Install Fest for Windows 7. Register
Note the dates for the above – April 14, 15, 16, respectively. See you there! 2/24/2009
Winnipegger and WITPro guest presenter, Mitch Tulloch, along with other authors involved in the production of the Windows Vista Resource Kit and MS Press who are celebrating 25 years of learning, are providing a downloadable copy of this book! You have to hurry, as the offer expires on the 25th!
Cheers,
Jason 11/5/2008
Registration Link
The next WITPro Meeting is November 19th at the Red River College (Princess Campus), Room A1-04. At this session, Jason Miller from Broadview Networks will introduce Windows Essential Business Server 2008 to attendees. If you are looking for an integrated platform solution for environments with 25 to 250 seats and want to learn about the benefits of reduced IT complexity and improved efficiency in this suite, you’ll want to attend this meeting! We will cover the product components and we will review migration best practices during this session. PLUS, we have secured support for a hardware demonstration – attend and see EBS 2008 on hardware purpose built for running an entire mid-sized organization’s infrastructure in a single chassis enclosure!
If you have never attended in the past, you are especially invited to join us at this meeting. 10/28/2008Get a free Second Shot on your exam! Achieve Microsoft Certification with less stress; get a free second chance to pass your IT professional, developer, or Microsoft Dynamics exam by participating in our Second Shot offer. We are pleased to announce that Second Shot is available again with the help of our worldwide test delivery partner, Prometric. As an additional incentive to work toward a Microsoft Certification, from October 15, 2008, to December 31, 2008, if you pass a Microsoft Certification exam on your first try, you get a 25 percent discount on another exam to be taken before February 28, 2009. Find out how you can certify your skills on the latest Microsoft technologies with a free second chance to pass your exam if you need it. 10/14/2008UPDATE - Oct 17th - early bird pricing extended to October 29th, and you can find more info from John Oxley at the CanITPro Blog!
Just a reminder to blog readers, that the Microsoft Tech Days 2008 early bird pricing deadline is almost here! Register now to save some money!
More info about Tech Days 2008 can be found at the www.techdays.ca website!
See you there!
Jason 10/7/2008
Registration Link: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=132357
Tuesday, Sept 23, 2008. Doors open 6:00 PM, presentation starts 6:15 PM.
Refreshments will be served at this event (coffee and doughnuts) for registered attendees.
Join us at this session for a deep-dive into the Microsoft Virtualization Platform in Windows Server 2008 - Hyper-V. This session will be presented by Chris Rivers - he will also be doing a similar session at the upcoming Microsoft Tech Days 2008 in Winnipeg. Expect a more personal presentation at this User Group event, and if you have a burning question on Hyper-V, come prepared to discuss with Chris and other event attendees.
Chris Rivers works for EDS, an HP company as an Infrastructure Specialist in the EDS Microsoft Support Centre group which provides tier 3 and 4 support to all of EDS’ clients worldwide. EDS, an HP company is a leading global IT services company with 140,000+ employees in 60 countries and annual revenues of $24.4 billion. With over 12 years in the industry, Chris is considered a subject matter expert on Windows Server 2008 and Vista, Active Directory, Virtualization, ISA Server, and Failover Clustering. After pursuing a degree in Aerospace Engineering, Chris moved into the Information Technology field and currently holds several industry certifications including the Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) Enterprise Administrator and Enterprise Support Technician certifications, the Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V certification and several Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) certifications. 9/8/2008Another season is set to start, and Microsoft Canada's lazy admin, Rodney Buike will be in town to deliver this session about Windows Failover Clustering! Read about Rodney's cross-Canada road trip here! Registration Link: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=131286 Tuesday, Sept 23, 2008. Doors open 5:45 pm, presentation starts 6:15 pm.
Pizza and pop provided to registrants.
See us in the MPR at Red River College, Princess Campus. For those who haven't met our presenter, Rodney Buike is an IT Pro Advisor on the Developer and Platform Evangelism team at Microsoft Canada. And before joining Microsoft Canada, he was a Winnipegger and he's got a diverse background, with titles like network technician, system engineer, independent consultant, author and senior system architect/engineer. In this session, you will learn the power of building highly available platform for your application by taking advantage of Windows Server Failover Clustering. You will gain knowledge of the different deployment options, and you will come to understand the different considerations when you're deploying a highly available infrastructure. You will also receive invaluable information on building highly available cluster workloads such as DFS, DHCP, File servers, Virtual Machines (Hyper-V) and multi-site clusters. LEARNING OBJECTIVES - Learn how to build a windows 2008 cluster and validate it.
- Understand Server core multi site clustering.
- Understand clustering with Hyper-V.
So if you're interested, register and come out to meet others in the Winnipeg area and learn about WSFC! 6/15/2008Join us at the next WITPro meeting, where I will be leading a discussion around the prominent features of Small Business Server 2008 and common scenarios to consider as this new product from Microsoft comes of age and approaches a release date in the second half of 2008. If you cater to the needs of small or mid-sized business customers, or if your business uses SBS or is looking for an advanced infrastructure solution designed for companies with 2 to 75 computer systems, then this session will be a valuable investment of your time! Event Registration Link: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=128962 5/27/2008Thanks to everyone who came out for The Energize IT Bootcamp (Winnipeg) event - for the record-books, there were 65 local IT Pros who attended this session on May 21, 2008! If you weren't able to attend, you missed out on a great session (plus some great giveaways!). The Winnipeg stop on the TechNet Canada Security Bootcamp tour was one of the first to fill up entirely, but we didn't turn anyone away at the door! We made some logistical adjustments and we extended our registration numbers so that more of you could attend, and that paid off for our attendees. When we had finished handing out the last MS Press book and free exam voucher, there were only a couple of leftovers. note: if you attended and received a 2008 track book and want a 2003 track title, drop me a line and I'll arrange to get you an alternate book, as I've got a couple of 2003 texts on hold. Follow-up resources for the event: From everyone in Winnipeg who attended, sincere thanks to Kirk and Kai, who each gave up personal time to travel across Canada on this tour, and a round of applause to the Canadian IT Pro team at Microsoft Canada for making the tour happen! We are happy to receive your feedback on this event - feel free to put your comments into this web form to get your feedback to our group, or send us an email. Thanks for attending, and we'll see you at our June event! 4/30/2008Well the Security Bootcamp stop in Winnipeg has proven to be very popular among IT Pros in the area. We booked up in less than a day, with a hundred registered attendees.
I'm looking into larger facilities to see if we can relocate and move to a room with a bigger capacity so we can afford those who missed the TechNet Flash newsletter the chance to get in on this action! hint! if you don't receive the Flash, follow that link to register for the TechNet newsletters!
Stay tuned for an update on the Bootcamp stop! |
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