Two Speakers Tonight

Topic – Is virtualization all hype or can it reduce costs, make an admin’s life easier, & save the planet.
Speaker – Ben Serebin (network consultant) of REEF Solutions
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Meeting Topic Details – Align all 3 goals of reducing costs, making an admin’s life easier, and saving the planet. Learn about what you could be doing if you had your Exchange environment in a VM. Learn what’s supported and what’s not. I’m sure you’ll learn some surprising things this evening. I did and I’m running Exchange within a VM
Sponsor: TBA

Topic – Adnan will be presenting the Q4 2009 release of Windows Server 2008 R2’s Hyper-V and Hyper-V Remote management.
Speaker – Adnan Rafik is the Founder of UAE’s IT Professional User Group i.e. TECHIES (www.techiesonly.com) based in Dubai. He started the user group and the group has since grown to 350 members. He shares his keen passion in infrastructure, networking, security and virtualization with the IT Pro community.  Adnan has always been focused on helping businesses with the ever changing technologies.

Adnan frequently volunteers in user groups activities locally and worldwide. He worked very closely with Microsoft Gulf to promote the user group activities in the region. He also worked with Windows IT Pro magazine to bring a successful series of events, Get Ready for SQL Server 2005 and Get Ready for Exchange 2007, to Dubai. He has been a speaker at DIVE DEEPER in Dubai and Cairo.
 
Speaker contact
Blog – http://adnanrafik.com/blog
Facebook – http://facebook.com/adnan.rafik
LinkedIn — http://linkedin.com/in/arafik

PLEASE NOTE:  Only the first 30 person rsvp’s will be accepted since our meeting space is under-going construction

Register Now (open to the public & free / click to attend RSVP – by Mon September 7th at 3pm EST)

Doors Open 6pm (food arrives)
Meeting is from 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Location – you must register to gain access to the building.
Microsoft Corporation
1290 Avenue of the Americas, FL 6
6th Ave bet 51st & 52nd St.
New York, NY 10104