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OWSUG Windows 8 Study Group

March 25, 2013 by Todd Lamothe

The Ottawa Windows Server User Group is running another study group again this spring, this time for Windows 8. Having written and passed the exam this past weekend, I can tell you this exam is challenging. Studying for it is necessary and working with a group might help with your success. The cost is $250.00 and that includes an exam voucher and the study guide. Pretty good deal.

You can sign up at EventBrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5764587035/es2005/?rank=1

Here is the full details:

We are pleased announce that we are now accepting applications to join our Configuring Windows 8(70-687) study group.

Content

The focus will be on preparing to pass the Configuring Windows 8 (70-687) exam.
Training Guide: Configuring Windows 8 (70-687) will be provided.

Schedule

Sessions take place on Wednesday evenings from 6:00 PM until 8:30 PM at Cistel Technology Inc. (210 Colonnade Rd, 2nd Floor)beginning March 27^th, 2013 and continuing until May 29^th, 2013 for a total of 10 sessions (estimated).

Objectives

1. Individual:

a. Prepare for the sessions by reading the training material content on the study group schedule.
b. Develop and improve skills with Windows 8.
c. Configuring Windows 8(70-687) certification

2. Group:

a. Review the content, perform demonstrations and review exam practice questions.
b. Attend 95 % of the sessions.

Mentors

The study group will be mentored by OWSUG.ca Study Group Coordinators Garth Gorling, Andre Potel and Chris Stanton

Offer

Cost to participate in the study group is $ 250. All participants will receive a copy (to keep) of the Training Guide: Configuring Windows® 8 2012(70-687) and exam voucher

Apply

To apply please send an email to EVENT BRITE. Additional registration details will be sent only to people that pre-register.

Thank you,

Garth, Chris and Andre

OWSUG March Session – STEP event: Architecting and Supporting the Back-End Infrastructure for the Consumerization of IT

March 7, 2012 by Todd Lamothe

While I am out on the west coast this week, I noticed March’s session for OWSUG has been announced. Register and check it out. Mitch is a great presenter and friend, you won’t be disappointed. If you are thinking of looking at VDI, do yourself a favour and check out his session.

Architecting and Supporting the Back-End Infrastructure for the Consumerization of IT

This two-hour session will show you how to plan for, build, and manage your VDI environment on Microsoft’s Hyper-V, using Citrix’s Xen Desktop and System Center Virtual Machine Manager to manage it, including creating templates, easy provisioning, and improving the end-user experience. Come see how you can make your life easier while giving the end user what they want in a safe and secure way!

Bio:

Mitch Garvis is a Renaissance Man of the IT world. Aside from being a partner with SWMI Consulting Group, he is a Virtual Partner Technology Advisor for Microsoft Canada and has contributed to numerous certification exams for Microsoft Learning. He seems to collect certifications, and trains on a variety of topics including System Center, server virtualization, desktop deployment, and security. We think that parts of Windows 7 really were his idea. You can read his blog at www.garvis.ca, or follow him on Twitter as @MGarvis. He makes his home outside Toronto where he has one wife, two kids, two dogs, and two minutes to himself per day.

Brad’s comment: Mitch is a good friend and colleague and always does a great job presenting. Come out and see him in March.

Windows 7 STEP Event in Ottawa

October 25, 2009 by Todd Lamothe

Thursday of last week (October 22), David Myers and myself presented the [wpseo]Windows 7[/wpseo] STEP event in Ottawa. It was a full house and one of our larger, if not largest crowd at the OWSUG to date.

As part of the presentation David covered [wpseo]Branch Cache[/wpseo], [wpseo]Direct Access[/wpseo], [wpseo]Bitlocker[/wpseo] to go among other things. I covered the deployment side of things which included[wpseo] Windows Deployment Services[/wpseo], [wpseo]Application Compatibility[/wpseo] and the [wpseo]User State Migration Tool 4.0[/wpseo]. I also helped David out with the [wpseo]Problem Step Recorder[/wpseo] by recording a problem I was having with Calculator.

If you want more information about things we presented on, check out the Springboard site at Microsoft.

Here is a shot of the crowd from the event. Brad took this from his cell phone.

The OWSUG page if the event is located at http://owsug.ca/blogs/brad/archive/2009/10/22/Today_1920_s-Windows-7-Meeting-Rocked-the-House_2100_-AND-Windows-7-Study-group-interest.aspx