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Windows 7 STEP Event in Ottawa

posted on October 25, 2009

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

October 15th Evening SQL Server DBA Event: Disaster Recovery

posted on October 14, 2009

October 15^th Evening SQL Server DBA Event: Disaster Recovery – Edwin Sarmiento, MVP for SQL Server

Speaker: Edwin M. Sarmiento, MVP for SQL Server

Date: Thursday, October 15^th, 2009

Time: 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM

Venue: Microsoft Ottawa Office

RSVP: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=142063

Session 1 (6:00 PM to 7:10 PM): Understanding and communicating business-orientated disaster recovery concepts and objectives

So you have a database maintenance plan that does a backup of your databases and you’re pretty sure that it works fine. But is that really enough? Are you sure that you will be able to meet your service level agreements if and when disaster strikes? This session will explain the need for understanding and communicating business-orientated disaster recovery concepts and objectives to the business stakeholders. This will include defining your RPO and RTO and how it affects your disaster recovery plan.

Session 2 (7:20 to 8:30 PM): Disaster Recovery for the Paranoid DBA

In the first session, much have been said about disaster recovery in general. In this session, we will look at bringing the concepts down to SQL Server. This session will focus on dealing with a recovery situation for a SQL Server 2005/2008 database, an instance or an entire server. Topics covered will be backup schemes, partial backups and piecemeal restores, page-level recovery and a thorough understanding of how to troubleshoot a “Suspect” database.

Speaker Bio:

Edwin M. Sarmiento (MVP for SQL Server) works as a Senior SQL Server DBA/Systems Engineer for The Pythian Group in Ottawa, Canada. He is very passionate about technology but has interests in music, professional and organizational development, leadership and management matters when not working with databases. He lives up to his primary mission statement – “To help people grow and develop their full potential as God has planned for them.”.

Refreshments:

Pizza and pop will be provided.

Note: No one will be admitted by building security after 5:55 PM, and the event will start promptly at 6:00 PM.

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.

Ask Your Peers – User Group Event Tonight in Ottawa

posted on February 19, 2009

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 19^th 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:

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?
My users are complaining about how we are deploy software updates, How do other deploy software update to their user?
What effect does DNS scavenging have on AD? Will this increase my network traffic on my WAN link?
I love SharePoint, and I want to help “sell it” to management to solve our problems, what can I do?
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

February 19th 2009 User Group Meeting

February 19^th 2009 User Group Meeting