About Us
The group's focus is education, professional networking, and increasing one's knowledge of Microsoft Exchange Server. We have monthly meetings, two mailing lists, and run special events. All events are free and open to the public. As of May 1st 2009, we had over 500 members and have been have meetings for over 4 years now. The group was founded in March 2005 and still run by Ben Serebin and received founding sponsorship from Microsoft, Culminis, & REEF Solutions.
Monthly Meetings
We hold monthly meetings, 2nd Tuesday of every month, that are free and open to the public. Free pizza dinner and a number of items (e.g. hardware, software, gift certificates) are raffled off at the end of every meeting. Only requirement is you RSVP as per the meeting details. The meeting topics vary from learning about a specific feature within Exchange (e.g. Public Folder Direct Booking), scaling Exchange Servers in high availability clusters to demo-ing various 3rd party solutions ranging from archiving, SANs solutions, to the highly talked about Microsoft Round Table solution. The groups varying background allow for a diverse range of technical depth within a topic and for meeting other professionals on your level. So, topics can be introductory to highly technical. We have topics and speakers for everyone's level. At the end of the day, all topics are Exchange related.
Professional Networking
The group is comprised off varying levels of technical expertise, ranging level one support techs, consultants, to IT management at Fortune 1000 companies. We also have a number of recruiters in the group, so folks looking for work at frequently find an opportunity simply by attending a few meetings. The NYExUG meetings are a great networking opportunity.