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Exchange admin roundtable.
Register Now (open to the public & free / click to attend RSVP - by Mon December 8th at 3pm EST)
Doors Open 6pm (food arrives)
Meeting is from 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Location
Microsoft Corporation
1290 Avenue of the Americas, FL 6
6th Ave bet 51st & 52nd St.
New York, NY 10104
November 11, 2008 Meeting
November Meeting Presentation:
NYExUG_2008.11.11_REEF Solutions_Ben Serebin_Highlights of low cost/free applications/tools to improve Exchange/Outlook.pdf
Video of November Meeting (main meeting & wrap-up portion)
http://photos.serebin.com/gallery2/v/ben/nyexug/meetings/
(Thank you to Tim Tong for working to make this video possible.)
Topic: Highlights of low cost/free applications/tools to improve your Exchange/Outlook functionality (e.g. low cost Outlook add-on that automatically knows where to file emails into a folder - no need Favorite Folders needed, free application that is an Exchange Server dashboard to monitor mail queues, disk space, cpu & memory utilization).
Highlighting the following applications
- SolarWinds Exchange Monitor, dashboard health monitor [Exchange]
- Lookout, search tool [Outlook]
- SimplyFile, automated filing tool [Outlook]
This is more end user to end user generated. While I [Ben Serebin] is aware of many solutions, I want your input. Please email your suggestions for a little known application/tool to be presented at the meeting to nov08@nyexug.com (this email address is designed to work until 11/30/08). Or attend the meeting and we will discuss.
Register Now (open to the public & free / click to attend RSVP - by Mon November 10th at 3pm EST)
Doors Open 6pm (food arrives)
Meeting is from 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Location
Microsoft Corporation
1290 Avenue of the Americas, FL 6
6th Ave bet 51st & 52nd St.
New York, NY 10104
Learn ActiveSync Troubleshooting Techniques (client & server-side) for Mobile 6, Palm OS, and iPhone and how the iPhone's ActiveSync almost defeated me (3/3 still).
Speaker - Ben Serebin, REEF Solutions
Register Now (open to the public & free / click to attend RSVP - by Mon October 13th at 3pm EST)
Doors Open 6pm (food arrives)
Meeting is from 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Location
Microsoft Corporation
1290 Avenue of the Americas, FL 6
6th Ave bet 51st & 52nd St.
New York, NY 10104
Meeting Presentation:
NYExUG_2008.10.14_REEF Solutions_Ben Serebin_Troubleshooting ActiveSync.Client.Server-side.pdf
Video of October 14th Meeting
http://photos.serebin.com/gallery2/v/ben/nyexug/meetings/NYExUG+Meeting_2008_10_mov_ff.flv.html
(Thank you to Tim for working to make this video possible.)
September 9, 2008 Meeting - Intro to PowerShell for Exchange 2007
Intro to PowerShell for Exchange 2007. Learn out to use the power of PowrShell scripting to easily manage your dozens of Exchange Servers or to simplify repetitive tasks. Brandon manages 1000+ server using PowerShell.
Speaker - Brandon Shell (MVP, MCSE,MCT,CCNA,CNA,NET+,INET+)
Presenting our 1st MVP, Microsoft Valuable Professional, Brandon Shell. https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Brandon). Brandon has been in the IT industry since 1994. He spent the early years as a PC tech and general fix-it guy for numerous companies. He started a consulting company in 1999 building, designing and supporting networks and Windows infrastructure. He offered Microsoft training as well. In 2000 he joined Microsoft as contractor for the Directory Services team (the first of several times). He joined Microsoft in 2002 as a full time rapid response field engineer doing mostly Directory Service support for companies in the northeast. In 2004 the onsite travel requirement became too much and since he didn’t want to move to Redmond he left for a Fortune 100 finance firm where he is today.
Register Now (open to the public & free / click to attend RSVP - by Mon September 8th at 3pm EST)
Doors Open 6pm (food arrives)
Meeting is from 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Location
Microsoft Corporation
1290 Avenue of the Americas, FL 6
6th Ave bet 51st & 52nd St.
New York, NY 10104
Download Presentation:
NYExUG_2006.09 PowerShell Inro.pdf
NYExUG_2006.09 PowerShell PowerguiExc2003Screenshot.png
NYExUG_2006.09 PowerShell Cool-Demo.txt
Brandon's Website with movies of demos
August 12, 2008 Meeting - LeftHand Networks on Intro to SANs
Presentation/Sponsor of LeftHand Networks' SAN solution for Exchange environments [fyi: the RAID of SAN solutions. - Ben Serebin]
About LeftHand Networks
LeftHand Networks is a leading provider of enterprise-class iSCSI SAN solutions. LeftHand’s patented SAN/iQ SAN technology offers excellent scalability, performance and high availability, making it an ideal choice for Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, and SharePoint deployments. LeftHand SANs are easy to deploy, highly automated, and contain all the storage management and data protection features you need at no additional charge. For any Microsoft environment, LeftHand delivers on low cost of ownership and a high return on investment.
Agenda
- background on how LeftHand Network's solution is different
- demo of LeftHand SAN solution for Exchange environments
- questions and answers
- raffle items
Register Now (open to the public & free / click to attend RSVP - by Mon August 11 at 3pm EST)
Doors Open 6pm (food arrives)
Meeting is from 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Location
Microsoft Corporation
1290 Avenue of the Americas, FL 6
6th Ave bet 51st & 52nd St.
New York, NY 10104
Meeting Presentation
NYExUG_2008.08.12_LeftHand_Exch_2007_Seminar_-_Aug_2008
July 8, 2008 Meeting - AppAssure on Continuous Application Protection
Presentation/Sponsor of AppAssure's Replay for Exchange. (fyi: an interesting solution that offers the ability to backup direct to a virtualized file format [vmdk] which will include 2 presentations [1 by AppAssure & 1 by an outside consulting vendor]. - Ben Serebin)
July Meeting Sponsor
AppAssure Software is changing the way businesses think about protecting their mission-critical messaging infrastructure – by providing solutions that protect the entire messaging environment, not just the data. Driven by the force to eradicate downtime and its accompanying drag on business, AppAssure develops innovative software that organizations can rely upon without significant overhead.
Founded in 2005 and backed by Bain Capital, AppAssure’s Replay software is currently in production at a variety of small businesses and large enterprises. Servicing all verticals, including law, accounting, state/local/federal government, technology providers and educational institutions, AppAssure Software is the recent recipient of Redmond Magazine’s MVP award, scoring an 8.8.
Speaker Agenda
Keeping the E-Mail Flowing: A discussion on continuous application protection (aka CAP) of Microsoft Exchange
- Safely Transition from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007: Leveraging Virtualization for Application Assurance
Join Mitch Chen of ITS Consulting Group, an expert in Microsoft Exchange deployments for a presentation exploring best practices for safely transitioning your messaging infrastructure from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007. Topics covered will include:
- Why upgrade to 2007?
- Choosing the right version of Exchange for your business
- Understanding Microsoft’s best practices
- Ensuring a ‘smooth’ transition
- Common issues during a transition
- Leveraging virtualization as part of your transition
Additionally, Mitch will be joined by Todd Fredrick of AppAssure software who will demonstrate a real-world implementation of virtualization using the Replay software platform for transition support, backup, and disaster recovery.
- Keeping the E-Mail Flowing: Leveraging Virtualization to Enable Business Continuity for Microsoft Exchange
How do you maintain high confidence in business continuity and achieve high availability of these systems, prevent unplanned downtime, and minimize planned downtime? Through virtualization of high availability and disaster recovery. In this presentation we will explore proven methods for business continuity of mission-critical messaging infrastructure by leveraging virtualization technologies.
AppAssure will then show a full, live product demonstration, complete with use cases that demonstrate features related to both presentations with a focus on virtualization.
Raffling off a gift card to Best Buy. This will be in addition to the normal software & hardware we raffle off.
Speaker Background (change notice - Apologies that Mark Arnold cannot present, but Mitch is involved with AppAssure deployments and is extremely knowledgable.)
Mitch Chen is a leading enterprise messaging consultant and enterprise architect with ITS Group Consulting. He specializes in designing and integrating compliance systems for financial firms. Prior to joining ITS Group, Mitch was the Chief Technology Officer for Network Alliance, a leading ASP for the SMB market. Under Mitch’s guidance, Network Alliance made it through the dot com bubble without funding to become a prosperous and profitable company.
Doors Open 6pm (food arrives)
Meeting is from 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Location
Microsoft Corporation
1290 Avenue of the Americas, FL 6
6th Ave bet 51st & 52nd St.
New York, NY 10104
Technical details between 2003 & 2007 & Why Companies Upgrade.
Speaker: Keith McCall, CTO & Founder of Azaleos
Speaker's Background
Keith McCall has led the development and delivery of enterprise software products for over 16 years. Prior to founding Azaleos, Keith spent four and a half years as the director and product unit manager for Microsoft Exchange Solutions. He was responsible for ensuring the integrity of the complete solution through technology and business development activities that supported Exchange systems integrators, ISVs, and IT professionals who deliver Microsoft-based messaging solutions. Keith initially joined Microsoft to develop a departmental solution server based on Microsoft's BackOffice technologies, which was delivered as the Team Productivity Update for BackOffice 4.5 in 1999. Prior to Microsoft, Keith was the senior director for Lotus' line of Domino.Applications and was responsible for delivering Lotus' Notes-and Web-based collaborative applications on the Domino Platform. Before joining Lotus, Keith invented Net.Commerce and built the team that delivered IBM's flagship Internet Commerce product. He was also the architect and developer of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games ticket server and was instrumental in designing and developing L.L. Bean's first e-commerce site. Keith also invented IBM's Net.Data product, which was the first product to join IBM's DB2 relational database to Web servers, and held a variety of marketing and sales positions related to the release of the first RISC System/6000 line of UNIX computers from IBM. Keith earned a bachelor's degree in science from the University of British Columbia in Canada.
Ecosystem [e.g. hardware and software) Differences for 2003 and 2007.
Speaker: Ben Serebin of REEF Solutions
Register now (click to attend RSVP - by Mon 6/9 3pm EST)
Doors Open 6pm (food arrives)
Meeting is from 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Location
Microsoft Corporation
1290 Avenue of the Americas, FL 6
6th Ave bet 51st & 52nd St.
New York, NY 10104
Meeting Presentation:
NYExUG_2008.06.10_REEF Solutions_Ben Serebin_Exchange Ecosystem Differences for 2003 and 2007.pdf
Presentation & Speaker
Microsoft's Behind the Scenes Look at Exchange Hosting Services by Keith Keeler. (fyi: they don't host Exchange, but a number of Exchange related services).
Don't miss this, I expect this to be like our Dogfood lab backup meeting.
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Microsoft Corporation
1290 Avenue of the Americas
6th Floor
New York, NY 10104
Meeting Presentation
NYExUG_2008.05.13_Microsoft_Bob.Hunt_Windows_Mobile_6.1
April 8, 2008 Meeting - Microsoft Unified Communications
Azaleos provides enterprise-class managed e-mail solutions that combine an on-premises, physical or virtual server/appliance with 24 hours a day, 7 days a week remote managed services, ensuring 99.9+% high availability, business continuity and optimized performance of your Microsoft Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007, or Mobile Access environment. http://www.azaleos.com/
Presentation
Speaker
Microsoft Unified Communications (Microsoft's VoIP and more solution) technical deployment presentation by Stephen Chirico, Sr. Tech. Solutions Professional.
Please use Click To Attend and register by 2pm EST on Monday 4/7.
http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=126626
Speaker BIO
Stephen is a NY based technologist covering Unified Communications. Stephen joined Microsoft from PlaceWare web conferencing, now Live Meeting, and was one of the first people in the Real Time Collaboration Group that later became Unified Communications at Microsoft. Stephen also has a background in software development, having spent 10 years at Borland International, as well as a background in Document Management and Knowledge Management. Stephen holds a BS in Computer Science from Manhattan College as well as some post graduate work at KGSM in Chicago.
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Post in April Meeting Notes
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Wow. That's how I would sum up our last meeting and "Star Trek" visits NYExUG. Also the concept of a "Communicator Call" is definitely forward thinking, see the highlights below for explanations.
We had a great meeting this past Tuesday on Unified Communications from Stephen Chirico (Microsoft). It really helped in determining what was required for deployment of Microsoft's UC technology. I've listed some highlights from the slides. Stephen did 2 presentations in one (UC Vision & OCS Architecture). So, you'll see 2 PDFs posted online in addition to the sponsor's (Azaleos) presentation. I would recommend you review both in detail if you're interested in UC.
Highlights
Access Edge Proxy - DMZ based server that proxies all traffic. No AD or authentication done on this box unlike an Exchange Edge Server that uses ADAM or a Windows RODC.
PBX Integration Options - 1) PBX supports mediation server w/o gateway (new PBX), 2) use of an Advanced Media Gateway w/existing PBX, or 3) use of an OCS mediation server w/Basic Media Gateway w/existing PBX. Slide 16 explains this. In essence, the Advanced Media Gateway eliminates the needs for a Windows OCS Mediation Server while the other 2 options require that.
Identity and Presence - available, on call, in meeting, etc. Your status available in Office, SharePoint, Live Communicator, etc.
Communicator Call - call's an identity (not a method/location such as mobile, work, home, IM, email, etc).
MOS = Mean Opinion Scores (what a user thinks of the voice quality).
Star Trek and Microsoft's UC - We saw the Star Trekish Round Table in action. It's a 360 degree audio/video conferencing system that mere mortals can afford as opposed to other 360 degree audio/video solutions out there. See Slide 23 for what attendees saw demo-ed. Speaker is shown on video based on triangulation of voice. Very cool.
URLs to assist users with deploying Unified Communications.
Supported gateways:
IP PBX and PBX Support
Office Communication Server 2007 Partners:
Microsoft Unified Communications: Phones and Devices Optimized for Microsoft Office Communicator
March 11, 2008 Meeting - 3 Year Anniversary - Xbox 360 Raffle
March 11 Meeting - 3 Year Anniversary - Xbox 360 Raffle
To celebrate, I'll be giving away an Xbox 360 System Raffle Item (thanks to REEF Solutions for this). Anyone that attends and is present at the end of the meeting is eligible to win. In addition to the software thanks to Microsoft on that. You don't want to miss this!
New NYExUG Logo and Shirts
It finally happened. We have a new logo and shirts (t-shirts in black/white/blue, long sleeve shirts in black, and polo's in blue). Drop me an email to buy one or come to the meeting, and I'll have some available.
Raffle Items
- Xbox 360 Arcade System includes 5 games (thanks to REEF Solutions due to 3 year anniversary)
- Best Buy Gift Certificate (thanks to StealthBITS, the meeting sponsor)
- assorted Microsoft software (thanks to Microsoft)
- Windows 2008 Launch NFR* package including Windows 2008 Server & Visual Studio Standard 2008 (*sadly, the Windows 2008 Server expires after 1 year)
- Windows Mobile 6 Developer Resource Kit
February 12, 2008 Meeting - Good Technology
Meeting Sponsor - Good Technology
1) A vendor presented Good Technology PDA wireless synchronization solution compared to Research In Motion's Blackberry Exchange Server & Microsoft's ActiveSync.
Presenter: Scott Davenport, System Engineer Manager
MEETING SPONSOR: NeverFail Group
Neverfail is a leading global software company providing Continuous Availability and Disaster Recovery for critical Windows-based applications. Continuous Availability brings together High Availability, Disaster Recovery and Data Protection software with best practice monitoring and automation. Neverfail’s predictive approach protects businesses during planned maintenance and IT outages. Regardless of the type of problem, from a single component failure to a full site disaster, critical business applications will continue operating without disruption. With Neverfail, users remain continuously connected to applications such as Exchange, SQL Server, File Server, IIS, SharePoint, RIM BlackBerry and IBM Lotus Domino. More information can be found at www.neverfailgroup.com.
January Meeting Topics
1) Failover Solutions demo for Exchange (products for failover include Blackberry Exchange Servers, and more)
Presented by Pat Yarbrough, Senior Sales Engineer, NeverFail Group
2) Tips to fix Exchange 2003 database problems presented by REEF Solutions, Ben Serebin
Presented by Ben Serebin, REEF Solutions (President & Founder of NYExUG)
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