SWIUG

August SWIG Meeting

Derrick — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:15:19 GMT

Hi all,

The SWIG meeting will not take place this month due to personal commitments on my part. We will be back next month for a post Tech Ed session. See you then!

Derrick

Updated!!! - Sydney Windows Infrastructure Group July 15th Meeting

Derrick — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:39:42 GMT

Hi All,

See you all at SWIG on Tuesday for great talks, prizes and free food and drink.....

We have a great talk on preparing for your Windows 2008 MCITP exam with Ken Schaefer

Ken’s Bio - Ken Schaefer is a systems engineer consultant for global systems integrator Avanade. Avanade is a joint partnership between Microsoft and Accenture and focuses on enterprise projects across the Microsoft product stack.

Ken has worked with IIS for around 10 years, and been a Microsoft MVP for IIS since 2003. He has presented at numerous Microsoft Tech.Ed events across the US, Australia and Asia, written articles for Microsoft TechNet and spent countless hours talking about IIS at other events, user group meetings and roadshows. He was lead author for Professional IIS 7 (Wrox/Wiley) and co-author of Securing IIS 6.0 (Syngress Press)

He is currently an MCITP (Win2k8 EA), MCSE+Security, MCDBA, MCTS and holds a Masters in Business and Technology from UNSW. Ken blogs about IIS at http://adopenstatic.com/blog

Our second talk is now confirmed and Amit Pawar has agreed to give us a talk on the new Windows Hyper V technology. Amit Pawar is a Technology Solutions Professional specialising in Windows Server technologies. As a technical specialist, his role involves being able to explain and demonstrate the features and benefits of the Windows Server platform as a infrastructure platform to customers and partners. In the past 7 years Amit has worked in a varied roles within Microsoft Australia ranging from Microsoft Consulting Services to Product Support Services.

We also have a Demo from Chris Mohan on File Server Resource Manager for Windows 2008. Have a look at Chris’s blog - http://www.chris-mohan.com/ The demo will be recorded and entered into the Microsoft Demo competition....best of luck Chris!

See you on Tuesday
Derrick Buckley

Sydney Windows Infrastructure Group July 15th Meeting

Derrick — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:14:50 GMT

Hi All,

See you all at SWIG on Tuesday for great talks, prizes and free food and drink.....

We have a great talk on preparing for your Windows 2008 MCITP exam with Ken Schaefer

He is currently an MCITP (Win2k8 EA), MCSE+Security, MCDBA, MCTS and holds a Masters in Business and Technology from UNSW. Ken blogs about IIS at http://adopenstatic.com/blog

I have yet to finalise the second talk but am hoping for a confirmation on a Hyper V talk!

We also have a Demo from Chris Mohan on File Server Resource Manager for Windows 2008. Have a look at Chris’s blog - http://www.chris-mohan.com/

I will send an update soon

See you on Tuesday
Derrick Buckley

SWIG Meeting Tuesday July 15th at 6pm

Derrick — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:28:36 GMT

See you at the Sydney Windows Infrastructure Group meeting on Tuesday. See attached ics file for more information:

SWIG Invite

Cheers

Derrick

Winners of TechNET Plus Subscriptions

Derrick — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:26:24 GMT

Hey all,

Can the 2 winners of the TechNET PLus Subscriptions please email me at derrick.buckley(at)gen-i.com.au with the following details as the offer expires on June 30th!!!!

Email:
Full Name:
Street Address:
City:
Phone:
State:
Zip Code:
Country:

Cheers

Derrick

Books for Demo Competition 'Volunteers'

Derrick — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:47:34 GMT

Guys,

I have three Microsoft books to give out to the demo competition people tonight. One is on Windows 2008, another on the Resource Kit and last is on Group Policy......

Am looking forward to the Demo's

See you all at 6pm!

Derrick

This month's Presentation on Microsoft Office Groove 2007

Derrick — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:27:31 GMT

In this presentation Aaron Saikovski introduces Microsoft Office Groove 2007.

Groove is a way of allowing collaboration in your enterprise without having to rely on SharePoint. In this presentation we talk about how to integrate Groove into your enterprise and what is needed and how it can be used effectively for both connected, disconnected and even remote users. We discuss the architecture, security and the business benefits of the product.

Profile:

Aaron Saikovski is a Senior Solutions Specialist with Strategic Data Management (www.sdm.com.au) who specialises in SharePoint Architecture, Development, Consulting and Implementation.

With his 16+ years of industry experience, he has consulted for and trained developers and IT pros both locally and internationally and continues to do so while continuing to be very actively involved in the user communities and forums.

He is a very enthusiastic evangelist of collaboration and productivity tools based on Microsoft office platform technologies, namely Groove and SharePoint.

He is a regular speaker at industry events, user groups, conferences and forums.

He is an active blogger and his blog can be found here: http://ruskydotnet.blogspot.com

He is also the founder of http://www.ozmoss.com which is a very active online SharePoint community which has over 200+ active subscribers including members of the SharePoint product team and other industry luminaries.

Aaron is currently the only Groove MVP in Australia and NZ.

His MVP profile can be found here: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Saikovski

My 5 Tips for Building a Windows 2008 Demo Environment - Derrick Buckley

Derrick — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:56:00 GMT

1. Here is the GUI that I used in the Server CORE demo last night - http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/files/folders/guyt/entry68860.aspx

2. Unattend.txt for building Server CORE RODC -

[DCInstall]
AutoConfigDNS=Yes
ConfirmGC=Yes
CriticalReplicationOnly=No
DisableCancelForDnsInstall=No
Password=
RebootOnCompletion=No
ReplicaDomainDNSName=Corp.com
ReplicaOrNewDomain=ReadOnlyReplica
replicationSourceDC=SWIG-DC-01.corp.com
SafeModeAdminPassword=
SiteName=BranchOffice
UserDomain=Corp
UserName=administrator

3. I used Virtual PC 2007 for my environment. In order to deploy the VMAdditions to the Server Core Image, you need to do the following:

At the command prompt:

Press Right Alt I to mount VMadditions
Browse to D: (Mounted image)
cd windows
setup.exe

Thats it....VMadditions will now run!

4. Learn how to setup enterprise clustering with this demo! - http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032345932&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Windows 2008 Launch Demo Competition

Derrick — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:50:22 GMT

Demo’s Happen Here
Be part of the first Microsoft National {Community} Demo Competition!
As part of the Heroes {Community} Launch, Microsoft will be launching the National {Community} Demo Comp. As the largest community activity Microsoft Australia has ever produced, we want you to be involved. The Demo Comp is your chance to expand your skills on the Launch technologies and become the National Demo Champion.

See - http://www.microsoft.com/australia/heroes/community.aspx for more details.

Can the volunteers from the SWIG group post details in reply to this post please?

I will post all the Windows 2008 goodies from my demo last night in due course!

Cheers

Derrick

SWIG Meeting Tonight

Derrick — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:03:45 GMT

Guys,

Are we all still on for the SWIG meeting tonight. I will be giving away NFR copies of Windows 2008 Server amongst other goodies. In light of this prize, I will demo how to get a Windows 2008 Server test environment up and running along with some tricks and tips!

See you all at 6pm!

Derrick

SWIG Meeting 15th April

Derrick — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:59:43 GMT

All,

This meeting is huge...possibly the biggest yet. We have lots of prizes to giveaway including books, NFR Software, Technet Plus Subscriptions etc.

See you all on Tuesday at 6pm!

Cheers

Derrick

SWIUG Meeting Cancelled Tonight

Derrick — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:11:31 GMT

Sorry guys, I have to cancel the SWIUG meeting this evening due to some unforeseen circumstances. See you all next month.

Meeting March 18th 2008 - Windows 2008 Demo session

Derrick — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:58:12 GMT

Hi all,

We will be holding our monthly SWIUG meeting on Tuesday 18th March 2008 at the usual venue. As promised, I will be doing demo's of Windows 2008 as discussed at the last meeting.

See you there

Derrick

SWIG Meeting Tonight

Derrick — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:21:00 GMT

See you at the meeting tonight for the Windows 2008 Launch meeting part 1. Kick off time is 6pm and I hope to see you all there!

Updated Presentations Page

Derrick — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:55:00 GMT

All,

I have updated the presentations page with Tuesdays slides. I will put Ken's up once I have them!

http://swiug.org.au/files/default.aspx