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OttawaSQL.net Upcoming Event – November 13, 2008

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The OttawaSQL.net group has an event planned for November 13, 2008. The full details are listed below.

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Free Evening Event @ Microsoft Ottawa

Thursday, November 13th 5:15 – 8:00 PM

Feature Presentation: Upgrading and Migrating to SQL Server 2008

Best Practices and Lessons from the Field, Damir Bersinic

Damir will be in town for the Ottawa stop of the Align IT tour on November 13th. He will be taking this opportunity to share some of his SQL Server 2008 experience with the Ottawa community. Join us for what promises to be a fantastic presentation!

Speaker: Damir Bersinic, Microsoft Canada

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Damir

As an IT Pro Advisor for Microsoft Canada, Damir is passionate about reaching out to and engaging with the IT Pro community across Canada. He focuses on working with a broad range of audiences within the IT Pro community to foster relationships and convey Microsoft technologies and solutions. He is proud to be able to leverage his real life, hands-on experience to relate to the challenges faced by the IT Pro community today.

Damir is an integral part of the Microsoft team that drives awareness, education and training through events and by directly engaging with Canada’s professional communities, including IT managers, infrastructure specialists and architects as well as systems integrators, independent software vendors (ISVs) and community leaders.

Product Showcase (15 minutes):

SQL Response – Red Gate Software, David E. Myers

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No flashing lights. No repetitive emails. No complicated configuration required. Only the intelligent alerts and diagnostic data you need to resolve problems on your SQL Servers sooner. All from a single, intuitive interface. SQL Response monitors the health and activity of your SQL Servers, so you can work proactively to resolve the problems that matter most. See how no-nonsense monitoring from Red Gate’s new SQL Response™ can help you make the most of your office hours.

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

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David

David is a DBA and Developer at the Upper Canada District School Board (Brockville, ON) and is the OttawaSQL.net Executive Director for 2008. He primarily works with SQL Server but is increasingly working in the SharePoint data integration world. David will be presenting the session Information and Collaboration in One Place – Reporting Services Integration with SharePoint at Tech Days Canada 2008 in Montreal and Ottawa.

REGISTRATION:

LOCATION:

RSVP: Event Registration

Arrival: 5:15 PM to 5:30 PM

Presentation: 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM

Refreshments: Pizza and Pop

Microsoft Ottawa, World Exchange Plaza

100 Queen Street, Suite 500, Ottawa

EVENT SPONSORS:

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EVENT PARTNERS:

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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

Ottawa Windows Server User Group October Meeting

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Topic: Successful Migration Techniques For Migrating To Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 provides many enhancements to help organizations better manage their email, extend their messaging platform with Unified Communications technologies, and provide greater reliability and security. IT Pros are challenged with upgrading or migrating their existing email platform to Exchange 2007, while at the same time being keenly aware of the fact that email is something that can never go down. This session will teach you the best practices to migrate to Exchange 2007 so that you can be successful at acquiring the benefits of Exchange 2007 by a well-planned and executed migration. We will dive into migration and transition planning where you will learn scenarios to migrate environments such as Exchange Server 5.5, 2000, and 2003, Novell GroupWise and Lotus Domino to Exchange Server 2007. You will be trained to recognize and plan which of the different migration scenarios is best for you. You will learn what’s required to support multi-client environments (Outlook 2003 and earlier, as well as Outlook 2007) and what is required for coexistence planning.

About the Speaker:
Richard Claus is a bilingual Senior IT Pro Advisor working for Microsoft Canada. Based in Ottawa, Ontario, Rick is focused on engaging “the IT Pro community” by establishing relationships and giving support to various IT Professional focused initiatives, user groups and professional associations. He is very excited to have a position where he is empowered to reach out and share his passion for technology with the Canadian IT Professional community.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Rick most recently worked as an Enterprise Architect at a Microsoft Gold Partner. His previous design experience includes Virtualization strategies, Active Directory implementations and migrations, highly available Exchange messaging solutions, and overall systems management and interoperability. Besides design and consulting work, Rick brings over 17 years of IT experience, ranging from front line “in the trenches” admin duties, to training/mentoring/facilitating individuals and teams on how to use technology more effectively in their organizations.
Rick is an integral part of the Microsoft community team which drives awareness, education and training through special in person and online events. In addition to planning and delivering these events, his group directly engages with Canada’s professional communities, including IT managers, infrastructure specialists and architects, systems integrators, independent software vendors (ISVs) and community leaders.

Location:
Microsoft Canada Co.
100 Queen Street Suite 500
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 1J9
Date: October 23rd, 2008
Agenda:
5:00 p.m. Event registration
5:30 p.m. Presentation
7:30 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.

RSVP: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=132403

Ottawa.net Community Event

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The Ottawa.net group is putting on an event this thursday about Team
System Process Customization. You can have a look below for information
on the event and how to register.

Description:
This presentation will focus on the creation of new process templates
and the various customization options that are made available to you as
a developer. We’ll look at the new work item types, processes, and
reports. This is more than just process customization; it’s TFS
tailoring and extension at its best!

Speaker: Etienne
Tremblay is a senior application architect for EDS Canada with 14 years
of experience in enterprise application development. His primary focus
has been the manufacturing and mining industries, where he has
developed systems to monitor quality in car manufacturing, claim
management systems, mine monitoring systems and route management
systems using n-tier application model in C/C++, VB6/DCOM and in the
last 6 years exclusively with the Microsoft .NET technologies both with
VB.NET and C#. In late 2005 he was awarded MVP status for his work with
Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team System 2005 product for which he has
done talks, training, and large scale deployment in EDS.

Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008 (5:30PM – 8:30PM)

Topic: Team System Process Customization

Location: Microsoft, 100 Queen Street, Suite 500, World Exchange Plaza, Ottawa, Ontario

Registration: RSVP via email to [email protected]