Sydney Windows User Group

NO SWUG meeting in November

admin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:03:31 +0000

Just a quick reminder that there will be no meeting of the Sydney Windows User Group in November due to the two meetings we had in October. We’ll be back with an uber-Christmas meeting on Wednesday December 9th!

Windows 7 House Party

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:17:32 +0000

With the release last week of Windows 7, Microsoft offered IT enthusiasts the opportunity to host their own Windows 7 House Party and the Sydney Windows User Group will be one of these hosts!

Date: THURSDAY 29th October 2009

Time: 6pm – 8:30pm

Venue: Microsoft Australia – 1 Epping Road, North Ryde

Presentations:

Overview of Windows 7 – Nicholas Rayner
Deployment of Windows 7 – Jeff Alexander
- Including a demo of upgrading Windows XP to Windows 7 with NO DATA LOSS!!
Community Presentations
- Spend 5 minutes talking about YOUR favourite Windows 7 feature

Devices galore:

HP TouchSmart Desktop PC
HP TouchSmart Notebook
Fujitsu T5010

and more!

We’ll also have Pizza and refreshments throughout the night

To RSVP, please send an email with your name and email address to windowsusergroup@live.com or RSVP on the SWUG Facebook event page

October Meeting Agenda

admin — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:15:29 +0000

Date: Wednesday 14th October 2009

Time: 6pm – 8:30pm

Venue: Microsoft Australia – 1 Epping Road, North Ryde

6:00pm – Windows News and Q&A

Nicholas will talk about the latest news including Windows 7, Windows Phone and the SWUG Windows 7 launch party

6:20pm – Office 2010 Overview

Alistair Speirs, Microsoft Office Technology Specialist, will provide an overview of the Office 2010 Clients including OneNote, Outlook, Word and more. The Office 2010 Clients are currently in in the Technical Beta stage of the development lifecycle and are due for a public beta before the end of 2009.

Speaker: Alistair Speirs

7:20pm – Pizza, soft drink and networking (please donate $5 to help cover the cost of Pizza)

7:50 – Building a Windows Home Server (Part 1)

Nicholas Rayner will provide an overview of the Windows Home Server OS including building, installing, configuring and managing the Windows Home Server. Then Cameron Harris will discuss his experiences in building and managing a Windows Home Server including security and add-ons.

If you have any questions about Windows Home Server, please email windowsusergroup@live.com

8:30– Close

September Meeting Agenda

admin — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:53:48 +0000

This month’s meeting of the Sydney Windows User Group is coming up this Wednesday 16th September 2009 and will be covering Microsoft Office InfoPath & Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Integration and Windows 7 media awesomeness including DLNA

Date: Wednesday 16th September 2009

Time: 6pm – 8:30pm

Venue: Microsoft Australia – 1 Epping Road, North Ryde

6:00pm – Windows News and Q&A

Nicholas will talk about the latest news including Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Office 2010 and more

6:30pm – Submit this Form! InfoPath and SharePoint Integration – best practices (Part 1)

Come along to this ’show and tell’ session to learn how you can effectively integrate InfoPath forms and data with SharePoint Server 2007 to help solve everyday business processes in the real world.

Speaker: Kathy Hughes

7:00pm – Pizza, soft drink and networking (please donate $5 to help cover the cost of Pizza)

7:30 – Submit this Form! InfoPath and SharePoint Integration – best practices (Part 2)

8:00 – Windows 7 Media and DLNA awesomeness

Mark O’Shea, OEM Technology Manager at Microsoft Australia, will provide an overview of the new media features in Windows 7 and then move onto an overview and demo Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) devices.

8:30– Close

August Meeting Agenda

admin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:42:00 +0000

This month’s meeting of the Sydney Windows User Group is coming up next Wednesday 12th August 2009 and will be covering Windows Live, Office Live, Microsoft Subscriptions and providing an update on Microsoft’s major product lines

Date: Wednesday 12th August 2009

Time: 6pm – 9pm

Venue: Microsoft Australia – 1 Epping Road, North Ryde

6:00pm – Windows News and Q&A

Nicholas will talk about the latest news including Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Office 2010 Tech Preview, Microsoft & Yahoo deal and much more

6:30pm – Microsoft Subscriptions

Craig Bailey will provide a detailed overview of the Microsoft Subscription Programs available for both individuals and businesses. The Microsoft Subscription Programs includes MSDN, TechNet and Expression subscriptions for individuals and BizSpark, Microsoft Empower and Microsoft Partner Programs for businesses.

Speaker: Craig Bailey

7:00pm – Microsoft Product update

Nicholas will provide an update on some of Microsoft’s major products including Windows Client & Server, Office, Zune, Windows Mobile and more.

7:20pm – Pizza and soft drink (please donate $5 to help cover the cost of Pizza)

7:50 – How to use Office Live Workspace to keep your whole team on the same page – literally

Jodie Miners and Alison Young will talk about Microsoft Office Live Workspace (which is FREE btw!) and demo some of the great features available including live collaboration of documents! Office Live Workspace is a great product for teams looking to collaborate in a simply and easy way.

8:20 – Windows + Windows Live

To round out the night Nicholas will talk about enhancing the Windows experience with Windows Live including Windows Live Essentials, Windows Live Hotmail & Calendar, Skydrive and much much more!

8:50– Close

Upcoming event: Windows 7 Seminar

admin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:51:52 +0000

The guys at Dimension Data are running a Windows 7 seminar next week providing a high level overview of the new features in Windows 7 and how you can benefit from them.

When:

Wednesday 15 July 2009 starting at 5:15pm

Where:

Dimension Data Learning Solutions NSW (Sydney)
Level 10, Thakral House
301 George St Sydney 2000
Phone : 13 12 01
Fax : 02 9292 7585

To Register:

http://www.ddls.com.au/seminar_details.asp?id=838&loc=10

July presentations now available

admin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:45:06 +0000

After another awesome Sydney Windows User Group this week covering Windows 7 Deployment and Windows Home Server I’ve now uploaded the July presentations to the SWUG Skydrive . All the presentations contain links within them and if you are looking for more information, leave a comment or send me an email

Just a quick reminder about the August SWUG, it will be on Wednesday 12th August at Microsoft Australia from 6-8:30pm. I’m finalising the content over the weekend, so look out for a fresh blog post next week with more details!

SWUG July Meeting announcement

admin — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:53:00 +0000

This month’s meeting of the Sydney Windows User Group is coming up next Wednesday 8th July 2009 and will be covering Windows Home Server and deploying Windows 7

Date: Wednesday 8th July 2009

Time: 6pm – 9pm

Venue: Microsoft Australia – 1 Epping Road, North Ryde

6:00pm – Windows News and Q&A

Nicholas (now with a shiny blue cast for my fractured wrist) will talk about the latest news including Windows 7 Pricing and Upgrade Plans, Office 2010 Tech Preview coming soon, some cool new devices and much much more!

6:30pm – Windows 7 Deployment

This session will focus on Windows 7 enhanced deployment capabilities. We will explore Virtual Hard Disk Image Management and Deployment, Dynamic Driver Provisioning, and Multicast Multiple Stream Transfer functionality that is used with Windows Deployments Services for operating system deployments. In addition we will discuss Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows 7 which includes Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) to create Windows 7 deployment packages. In this session, we will show you how to deploy Windows 7 to a bare metal machine and upgrade existing Windows Vista computers to Windows 7 using Windows Deployment Services included in Windows Server 2008 R2. Then we will show you how to provision a VHD using Windows Deployment Services

Speaker: Jeff Alexander, The IT Pro Evangelist and employee 21 at Microsoft Australia

7:30pm – Pizza and soft drink (please donate $5 to help cover the cost of Pizza)

7:50 – Windows Home Server

Windows Home Server is one of Microsoft’s best products, but also one of the most unknown. Nicholas will walk you through Windows Homer Server covering the major features of Windows Home Server including automated backup, media sharing, remote access, add-ins and much more. Next, I’ll cover installing Windows Server Update Services on your WHS to centralise Microsoft Updates throughout your home. Then finish up with a roundup of WHS Hardware and building your own WHS.

8:40 – Close

To RSVP for the event email windowsusergroup@live.com or RSVP via the SWUG Facebook Event Page

UPDATE:

We have some cool devices that will also be on show including:

June presentations now available

admin — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:23:00 +0000

After another awesome Sydney Windows User Group this week (which i couldn’t attend..apparently my gadgets weigh more than i expected!) i wanted to say thanks to everyone who attended especially Craig Bailey for running the night, Jeff Alexander for hosting us, Gordon Ryan for his awesome presentation and demos and to Tony Hollingsworth and Jodie Miners for tweeting all night so i could still participate.

I’ve now uploaded the June presentations to the SWUG Skydrive and be sure to check our Gordon’s blogpost on recreating his Windows 7 streaming demo from SWUG.

Just a quick reminder about the July SWUG, it will be on Wednesday 8th July at Microsoft Australia from 6-8:30pm. I’m finalising the content over the weekend, so look out for a fresh blog post next week with more details!

SWUG June Meeting announcement

admin — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:38:00 +0000

This month’s meeting of the Sydney Windows User Group is coming up next Wednesday 10th June 2009 and will be all about Windows media Media MEDIA!!!

Date: Wednesday 10th June 2009

Time: 6pm – 9pm

Venue: Microsoft Australia – 1 Epping Road, North Ryde

6:00pm – Windows News and Q&A

Nicholas (now with just one working arm) will present this month’s Windows News including the Windows 7 RTM timelines, Windows Touch Pack, Office 2010 and the Zune HD. If you have any news articles you’d like covered on the night email windowsusergroup@live.com or mention it on the night.

6:30pm – Windows 7 – The new media experience (Part 1)

With more and more households having multiple computers, Windows 7 lets you easily manage and access your digital media, irrespective of where you have stored it, or where you happen to be. In this session, Gordon Ryan will walk you through the different options for available in Windows 7 for consuming media using traditional methods such as Windows Media Player as well as the options for internet streaming and using devices such as the XBOX 360 as a media extender.

7:15pm – Pizza and soft drink (please donate $5 to help cover the cost of Pizza)

7:40pm – Windows 7 – The new media experience (Part 2)

Gordon will continue after the short pizza and drinks break walking you through the different options for available in Windows 7 for consuming media using traditional methods such as Windows Media Player as well as the options for internet streaming and using devices such as the XBOX 360 as a media extender.

8:10pm – Quick chat around future content and group direction

We’ll open up the floor to discuss the planned future content sessions as well as group membership, meeting times and community involvement.

8:30pm – Close

To RSVP for the event email windowsusergroup@live.com or RSVP via the SWUG Facebook Event Page