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MMMUG September 2008 Meeting

2008-08-10T10:56:41Z

Hi.

Here are the details of our September MMMUG meeting.

This event will be held in London at the MSFT offices in Cardinal Place near Victoria.

This month we have a exciting session led by John Stewart-Murray from Dialogic. John will be introducing telephony to us as IT Pros. We will cover useful terms and then look at common scenarios which you may encounter.

We will then also look at how telephony is becoming integrated into the Exchange world by talking about how the telephony world operates with the Exchange UM role.

The meeting will be held on Wednesday 10th September.

To sign up and for more information see the link below:

http://www.mmmug.co.uk/forums/thread/21851.aspx

Hope to see you there.

Cheers

Nathan

July MMMUG Meeting - Gordon McKenna SCOM 2007 and Exchange

2008-06-08T20:27:30Z

Hi,

Here are the details of our July MMMUG meeting.

This event will be held in London at the MSFT offices in Cardinal Place near Victoria.

This month we have a great session led by top speaker Gordon McKenna! Gordon will be going into depth about how we should be managing and monitoring Exchange using the System Center Operations Manager 2007 product.

The meeting will be held on Tuesday 8th July. Directions to the venue can be found below.

The meeting will be a mixture of PowerPoint and Discussions so there will be plenty of time to run through your questions.

The agenda for the meeting will be as follows: (although I may tweak the timings slightly)

18:15 - 18:40 Arrival

18:40 - 18:45 Introduction to speakers and the aims of the group

18:45 - 19:30 1st session; Gordon McKenna, Managing and Monitoring Exchange using SCOM 2007

19:30 - 19:50 Food!

19:50 - 20:45 2^nd session; Gordon McKenna, Round Table discussion - Q&A focussed on Managing and Monitoring Exchange

20:45 - 21:00 Summing up and suggestions for future meetings.

21:00 The End!

If you are interested in attending the July MMMUG meeting please sign up by posting in this thread.

For Directions to the London location please see the link below:

http://www.microsoft.com/uk/about/map-london.mspx

Thanks and looking forward to meeting you all!

Nathan

The 2008 Community Launch Event

2008-03-07T21:47:47Z

Over the last few months I have been working with a couple of my colleagues from the UK IT Pro User Groups to put together a special event which will take place in April.

On Tuesday and Wednesday 8^th/9^th of April we will be holding the 3^rd Combined IT Pro User Group events in Reading at the Microsoft office in TVP.

This event will involve all of the UK IT Pro User Groups and will have a massive range of breakout sessions so there will certainly be something to appeal to everyone.

For loads of information including the full agenda and registration form see the link below:

http://www.ukusergroups.co.uk

Finally, on each evening of the event (8^th and 9^th April) we will be holding a small event in Reading at a local restaurant. There will be food, networking and a tech quiz with some prizes! This event is limited to 40 places and the sign up form will be live on the same site above over the weekend.

I very much hope you will be able to make some or all of the events and will enjoy discovering the new 2008 wave of products Microsoft is releasing and how they affect what is already out there!

Cheers

Nathan

MMMUG March Meeting - In Warwick!

2008-02-01T20:13:51Z

Hi All,

See below details of the March MMMUG Meeting.

This month the event will be held in Warwick at the office of Berica Ltd.

As promised we are finally moving out of the capital for some events, and this time, we will be focusing on both Exchange 2007 SP1 and Identity Management with regards to Exchange projects.

The meeting will be held on Monday 17th March. Directions to the venue can be found below.

The meeting will be a mixture of PowerPoint and Discussions so there will be plenty of time to run through your questions.

The agenda for the meeting will be as follows: (although I may tweak the timings slightly)

18:15 - 18:40 Arrival

18:40 - 18:45 Introduction to speakers and the aims of the group

18:45 - 19:30 1st session; Speaker Phil Kelly, Infatech; Identity Management and Exchange projects, what you need to know!

19:30 - 19:50 Food!

19:50 - 20:45 2^nd session; Neil Johnson, Microsoft; A detailed look at what is new in Exchange 2007 SP1

20:45 - 21:00 Q and A; Summing up and suggestions for future meetings.

21:00 The End!

If you are interested in attending the March MMMUG meeting please sign up by posting in this thread.

For Directions to the Warwick location please see the info below:

Berica Ltd
8 Corunna Court
Corunna Rd
Warwick
CV34 5HQ

Telephone:+44 (0)1926 482820
Fax:+44 (0)1926 482821

Directions - Road and rail links to Corunna Court are excellent:

By rail - 5 minutes walk alongside the Grand Union Canal to Warwick Parkway station. Where regular services from London and Birmingham are provided by Chiltern Railways.

By road - 30 seconds to the A46T Warwick bypass; and only a couple of minutes from both Warwick town centre and the motorway network via M40 Junction 15 (Warwick North)

http://www.berica.co.uk/contactus.asp

Thanks and looking forward to meeting you all!

Nathan

New Articles on MMMUG website

2008-01-22T10:01:58Z

Hi,

I have been quite busy recently! So there are now a bunch of new articles available on the MMMUG site. They can all be found on the Articles page linked below (or individually as shown lower down!)

http://www.mmmug.co.uk/content/ArticleList.aspx

Articles downloadable from the MMMUG site

Exchange 2007 Resource Booking/Scheduling Functionality by Nathan Winters

http://www.mmmug.co.uk/files/10/doc/entry1976.aspx

Setup and Testing of Standby Continuous Replication in Exchange 2007 SP1 by Nathan Winters

http://www.mmmug.co.uk/files/10/doc/entry1956.aspx

Importing and Exporting data to/from Exchange 2007 mailboxes with SP1 by Nathan Winters

http://www.mmmug.co.uk/files/10/doc/entry1885.aspx

Articles linked to other sites I write for

GroupWise to Exchange 2007 - Interoperability and Migration, Part 1 by Nathan Winters and Declan Conroy

http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2007/migration-deployment/groupwise-exchange-2007-interoperability-migration-part1.html

Hope you enjoy them!

Cheers

Nathan

Upcoming MMMUG Events

2007-12-19T18:44:58Z

Hi,

This post is just an overview of the MMMUG events in January and February 2008.

Here are the details of the January MMMUG meeting.

This event will be held in London at the MS offices near Victoria.

Ben Appleby from MCS will be back to talk us through all things backup and recovery.

The session will take a detailed look at the System Center Data Protection Manager platform in relation to Exchange and will delve into the concept of VSS backups be that software or hardware snapshots.

The meeting will be held on Wednesday 23rd January.

To sign up see the thread here:

http://www.mmmug.co.uk/forums/thread/1862.aspx

Here are the details of our February MMMUG meeting.

This event will be held in London at the MS offices near Victoria.

This month we have our most popular speaker back! Yes; Jason Langridge will be with us this time talking all about Window Mobile device management. Jason will cover the recently announced System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 and enhancements to Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1. Jason will run through all the options and let us know what is the best route for management.

Jason will also share the roadmap for Windows Mobile.

The meeting will be held on Wednesday 27th February.

To sign up see the thread here:

http://www.mmmug.co.uk/forums/thread/1863.aspx

I look forward to seeing you there!

Cheers

Nathan

November meeting slides and Exchange HealthChecks

2007-12-10T20:55:26Z

Hi,

As promised I have uploaded the slides from the November session where we discussed best practice and configuration required after Exchange 2007 deployment.

http://www.mmmug.co.uk/files/14/november_2007_slides/entry1844.aspx

For more information on Exchange Health Checks see Doug Gowans blog post here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/douggowans/archive/2007/06/06/run-your-own-exchange-server-health-check.aspx

Hope they are useful.

Cheers

Nathan

December MMMUG Meeting

2007-11-18T21:27:35Z

Hi,

Here are the details of our December MMMUG meeting.

This event will be held in London at the new MS offices near Victoria. This month Russ Kirk (Grey Convergence), Neil Johnson and Keith Hanna (both from Microsoft) will lead the session.

The session will give a detailed introduction to the concept of Unified Messaging in Exchange 2007. We will then show how to set this up and discuss pros and cons of Exchange UM verses other UM solutions.

The meeting will be held on Thursday 13th December. Directions to the venue can be found below.

The meeting will be a mixture of PowerPoint and Discussions so there will be plenty of time to run through your questions.

The agenda for the meeting will be as follows: (although I may tweak the timings slightly)

18:15 - 18:40 Arrival

18:40 - 18:45 Introduction to speakers and the aims of the group

18:45 - 19:30 1st session; Russ, Neil and Keith, Introducing Exchange UM

19:30 - 19:50 Food!

19:50 - 20:45 2^nd session; Russ, Neil and Keith, Demonstrating the configuration of UM and Discussion of Competitors.

20:45 - 21:00 Q and A; Summing up and suggestions for future meetings.

21:00 The End!

If you are interested in attending the December MMMUG meeting please sign up by posting in the thread here.

http://www.mmmug.co.uk/forums/thread/1700.aspx

For Directions to the London location please see the link below:

http://www.microsoft.com/uk/about/map-london.mspx

Thanks and looking forward to meeting you all!

Nathan

November MMMUG Meeting

2007-10-14T20:32:45Z

Hi,

Here are the details of the November MMMUG meeting.

This event will be held in London at the new MS offices near Victoria. This month Doug Gowans from MCS and I will be leading the session.

We will be discussing what steps must be undertaken after installing Exchange to get to a fully serviceable install. We will then show how this can be automated from the command line.

The meeting will be held on Wednesday 28th November. Directions to the venue can be found below.

The meeting will be a mixture of PowerPoint and Discussions so there will be plenty of time to run through your questions.

The agenda for the meeting will be as follows: (although I may tweak the timings slightly)

18:15 - 18:40 Arrival

18:40 - 18:45 Introduction to speakers and the aims of the group

18:45 - 19:30 1st session; Nathan Winters, Dimension Data and Doug Gowans, MCS; Exchange 2007 from the Commands Line.

19:30 - 19:50 Food!

19:50 - 20:45 2^nd session; Nathan Winters, Dimension Data and Doug Gowans, MCS; Chalk and Talk discussion about what make a good Exchange 2007 install.

20:45 - 21:00 Q and A; Summing up and suggestions for future meetings.

21:00 The End!

If you are interested in attending the November MMMUG meeting please sign up by posting in the thread here.

For Directions to the London location please see the link below:

http://www.microsoft.com/uk/about/map-london.mspx

Thanks and looking forward to meeting you all!

Nathan

Slides uploaded from our September meeting

2007-10-09T11:49:27Z

Hi,

The slides are now available from the Sept meeting lead by Ben Appleby on Edge Transport and Security.

http://www.mmmug.co.uk/files/10/september_2007_slides/entry1631.aspx

Also, Check out

www.microsoft.com/senderid

for more info on setting up SenderID records.

Cheers

Nathan

Mark Minasi Forum Meeting

2007-10-07T11:41:05Z

As some of you may know I am have long been a member of the Mark Minasi forum.

This is a brilliant forum with a whole lot of exceptional technical people and a very friendly atmosphere.

Starting in May 2006 I had the chance to attend a forum meeting and spoke on the subject of Exchange ActiveSync. In 2007 this event was repeated and this time I spoke on both VMware and Exchange 2007.

Both these events were excellent and a great chance to meet some new friends and to learn about a wide range of topics from some of the top speakers in the industry.

Well it is coming round to 2008 and again we will be meeting. We are hoping to spread the word a bit this year so for anyone wanting to come and here some great speakers for a very reasonable price take a look at the link below:

http://web2.minasi.com/forummeet2008/

I hope to see you there!

Cheers

Nathan

London TechNet Roadshow Event

2007-10-07T11:23:15Z

Hi,

I would like to take this chance to make a comment on an event I went to this week.

On Wednesday 3rd October I went to the TechNet Roadshow event at the MS offices in Cardinals Place, London.

Having been to many of these types of event before I would say that this event was by far the best that I have been to.

MS (Mainly in the form of James and Steve who spoke all day!) have really worked hard to provide an event which in many ways takes after the user group events I have been running.

The day was very much scenario based which meant not an overkill of PowerPoint but to technical guys talking us through live demonstrations using both released and yet to be released (Server 2008) technology.

All in all, this was a brilliant day and my congratulations go to MS and both speakers.

Thanks

Nathan

Virtual PowerShell User Group

2007-09-29T06:45:41Z

Hi,

I was contacted recently by Marco Shaw who has setup a new PowerShell User Group.

http://marcoshaw.blogspot.com/2007/09/windows-powershell-virtual-user-group.html

"I am proud to announce a new PowerShell user group. This user group will have its meetings done via Live Meeting with the help of Microsoft. The intent for the first few meetings is to invite international "PowerShell superstars" to give some brief talks on what they are doing with PowerShell."

Sounds like it could be worth a look, so if you are interested check out the site.

I believe the first meeting it this week coming as below -

Windows PowerShell Virtual User Group Meeting

Time: October 3rd, 2007 at 12PM (noon) EST (New York time)
Place: Online via Live Meeting 2007

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To sign up:
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Registration site: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=121386
Event Code: 121386
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Cheers

Nathan

MMMUG on Facebook

2007-09-06T19:45:13Z

Hi,

For those of you who are on Facebook, I have finally taken a look and joined!

I decided that I should create an area for the MMMUG seeing as there are so many other tech groups springing up including a TechNet group and the Live Meeting UG.

So if you want to take a look see the link below:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4932257414&ref=mf

Cheers

Nathan

MMMUG Meetings - September and October

2007-09-02T13:26:49Z

Hi All,

Here are some details of forthcoming MMMUG meetings.

Our September MMMUG meeting will be held in London at the new MS offices near Victoria. This month we have Ben Appleby from MCS back, who helped lead the great session we had in July. The topics this time will be Exchange Message Transport with a particular look at Edge Security.

The meeting will be held on Wednesday 26th September. Directions to the venue can be found below.

The meeting will be a mixture of PowerPoint and Discussions so there will be plenty of time to run through your questions.

To sign up post in the thread here:

http://www.mmmug.co.uk/forums/thread/1466.aspx

Here are the details of our October MMMUG meeting.

This month we have something completely different! Firstly a new venue for MMMUG, the Radisson Edwardian in Mayfair. http://www.radissonedwardian.com/londonuk_mayfair

This event is also at a slightly different time than normal and, whilst it I understand it may make it a little harder to attend for some I hope you will be able to make it.

As you may know MS in combination with some big partners will be running a series of Unified Communication Roadshow events during October and this MMMUG event will follow directly after the event on Thursday October 25th hosted by Dimension Data. Directions to the venue can be found below.

Continuing the different feel to the event, we will be trying out a completely new format. The focus point will be a panel session made up of Eileen Brown, Mark Deakin, Brett Johnson and Jason Langridge. The panel will be there to discuss your questions and to have a look at the future of Unified Communications. Surrounding the panel session there will be food and drink and a chance to have a hands on look at the MS Unified Communications technologies (Exchange UM, LCS, OCS etc).

To sign up post in the thread here:

http://www.mmmug.co.uk/forums/thread/1467.aspx

Hope to see you at the events

Cheers

Nathan