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EnergizeIT – Coming Soon to a City Near You

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Microsoft is running EnergizeIT again this year, but this time, the guys from Microsoft will be coming to you. For myself, I am not sure what or where I will be able to attend this year. There is a chance I’ll be heading to Toronto for some of the events but the Ottawa events run about the same time the is running (April 6,7,8), so I don’t know if I’ll be at any of the Ottawa Events but I want to attend at least the install fest in Ottawa. Even if I don’t attend MESH, it is going to be tough to get up to Ottawa three days in a row, so as it stands now, the install fest is looking like the best bet for me.

Here is the full information on the event and be sure to register for the event early so you don’t miss a great opportunity.

Ask Your Peers – User Group Event Tonight in Ottawa

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The weather is being uncooperative down here in Kingston, so I won’t be able to attend the event tonight. But if you are in the Ottawa area and not overcome by Obama fever, I strongly suggest you go register for the event. You get a chance to ask questions and have them answered by very knowledgeable people.

February 19th 2009 User Group Meeting

Topic: Asked your Peers!

Description: Have you ever wanted to know, How to deploy Windows 7 easily? or How do I setup my physical server to maximise the number of hyper-v virtual machines? Well this is your chance to ask the burning questions that you have!

If those questions above are not to your liking try something like these:

  1. My office is looking at mobile devices, I there anything that I need to know about managing them? How can I protect our data is the device is stolen?
  2. My users are complaining about how we are deploy software updates, How do other deploy software update to their user?
  3. What effect does DNS scavenging have on AD? Will this increase my network traffic on my WAN link?
  4. I love SharePoint, and I want to help “sell it” to management to solve our problems, what can I do?
  5. I’m getting Error “Sync failed: WSUS server not configured. Source: CWSyncMgr::DoSync”, do you have any ideas how I should troubleshot this?

This session will be moderated by Brad Bird and some of your answers will come from:

Rick Claus – Microsoft

Pierre Roman – Microsoft

Garth Jones – Enhansoft

And many others including your peers

Q&A: If you have details questions or would like to help ensure that your question is answered, please email your question in advance to [email protected]. We will try and research any of the tricky questions in advance so get your question in early and make sure that you are there to hear the answer!

Location:
Microsoft Canada Co.
100 Queen Street Suite 500
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 1J9

Agenda:

5:00 p.m.  Event registration
5:30 p.m.  Q & A
8:00 p.m.  Door Prizes

Notes:

· Pizza and Pop will be served, Please RSVP to help us order enough of both.

· Please note that no one will be admitted after 5:55 p.m.!

RSVP: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=135784

OttawaSQL.net User Group Event – Thursday February 12th, 2009

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Thursday, February 12th 5:45 – 8:30 PM

Free Evening Event @ Microsoft Ottawa

 

Feature Session: You can do *that* with Entity Framework?, Julie Lerman

OttawaSQL.net in partnership with the Ottawa .NET Community is proud to announce Julie Lerman’s session on the ADO.NET Entity Framework.

The ADO.NET Entity Framework is Microsoft’s new data access technology that can change the way you perceive and work with your application’s data. Julie will present a very high level overview for newbies then dive into some of the not quite so obvious things that can be done with Entity Framework such as adding business logic to entity classes, writing generic (reusable) code, taking advantage of Entity SQL and working directly with foreign key values.

Speaker: Julie Lerman, The Data Farm

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Julie Lerman

Julie Lerman is an independent consultant and .NET Mentor who has been designing and writing software applications for over 20 years. Julie is well known in the .NET community as a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and INETA Speaker. Julie lives in Vermont where she runs the Vermont.NET User Group.

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Julie is the author of O’Reilly’s “Programming Entity Framework” (available for pre-order at Amazon.ca). You can read Julie’s blog at www.thedatafarm.com/blog. She is a prolific blogger, a frequent presenter at technical conferences around the world and author of articles in well-known technical publications.

Product Showcase: RedGate Software’s SQL Refactor, David E. Myers

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SQL Refactor is an excellent choice for any SQL developer’s tool kit. David will demonstrate the ‘Layout SQL’ feature that increases productivity by formatting T-SQL code quickly and consistently across the development team. He will also show the capability for applying changes to database objects while effortlessly keeping dependant objects in sync.

Speaker: David E. Myers, Upper Canada District School Board

David is a DBA and SQL Developer and is the OttawaSQL.net Executive Director for 2008. He primarily works with SQL Server but is increasingly working with the SharePoint Business Data Catalog and Microsoft BI technologies. David recently presented at Tech Days Canada 2008 in Montreal and Ottawa.

 

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David E. Myers

 

Location:

Microsoft Ottawa, World Exchange Plaza

100 Queen Street, Suite 500, Ottawa

 

Registration:

 

RSVP: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=135501

Arrival:  5:30 PM to 5:45 PM

Product Showcase: 5:45 PM to 6:00 PM

Feature Session:  6:00 PM to 8:30 PM

Refreshments: Pizza and Pop

 

Event Sponsors:

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SQLTeach Special Event: BI Boot Camp, March 9th to 10th in Ottawa!!!

Use our group’s rebate code OT00SQLNET to register and save $100 off the $999 registration!

Business Intelligence is one of the topmost IT priorities and is increasingly pervasive within organizations large and small. Business Intelligence touches many aspects of our daily lives, from enhancing our online and retail shopping experience to the healthcare we receive. BI also impacts the quality of decisions that business leaders make.

The 2 day (March 9-10, 2009) boot camp has been designed to give you a head start in Business Intelligence practice. You will acquire fundamental knowledge of Business Intelligence and dimensional modeling along with understanding on how to use the various Microsoft technologies to implement a BI solution.

OttawaSQL.net is a community group of Ottawa area developers and IT professionals.  We share an interest in Microsoft’s data technologies especially:  SQL Server, SharePoint, PerformancePoint, Workflow Foundations, LINQ, ADO.NET and Entity Framework.