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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

Exam 70-646 – Preparations for My Next Exam

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I am preparing to start studying for my next Microsoft exam. The exam I am working on will be 70-646, PRO: Windows Server 2008, Server Administrator. In my preparations, I am going to use the MCITP Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-646): Windows Server 2008 Administratorexam preparation book to study for the exam. I bought this book last fall from Amazon.ca, as with the OWSUG study groups, we always used the MS Press books and found them to be the best resource for subject material when preparing for the exam. I also find that its definitely less expensive to get my books from the online stores versus a physical brick and mortar store.

When I read the books, I find that writing out brief points about what is covered in each section helps me remember what I read. I will take my notes and put them up on my blog; probably post dating them so it works out that 2 chapters a week get posted to the site. My plan is to write the exam next Thursday, but I may move that date out another week if I don’t get a chance to get a good solid study in over this weekend.

Windows 7 – Changes to Run As

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David Myers has a great post today on the changes to Windows 7 when using Run As.

For those that don’t know. David and I spent many hours together driving back and forth from the Certification Study Group in Ottawa for a couple of years and we both did our Train the Trainer course for our MCTs together back in 2007. While the certification groups are on a hiatus right now, we still do stuff together through the user groups, OWSUG & .

David has accounts that he uses for SQL Server that he needs to run commands as. With Vista, he had to create batch files for programs that he needed to run as the SQL account. Now with Window 7, he just holds shift when right clicking on the program and now another option shows up, Run As Another User. I never would have noticed this as I have my domain user account that I use for my day to day stuff, and the system will prompt me for the domain admin account to load drivers, apps, etc. I don’t have a need right now to run stuff as different domain user account.

Go check out his blog at DavidEMyers.com and have a look what he’s discovered new in Windows 7.

Great work pointing out that new feature David.