Date: Wednesday 8^th December

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, Windows Phone 7 Series, Windows Azure and more. (Do you have news? Tag it with #SWUG on twitter or comment below!)

6:20pm – Group Policy Security

Group Policy usually allows Administrators to control their environments but once your users are local Administrators Group Policy no longer matters.  In this session I will demonstrate a couple of common mistakes that allow your users to circumvent all policies and eventually elevate their rights even higher

Speaker: Mick Huxley – www.mickhuxley.com

7:00pm – Pizza and soft drink (please donate $5-10 to help cover the cost of Pizza)

7:30 – What’s new at Microsoft

Nicholas Rayner will go through some new products from Microsoft including Windows Phone, Kinect for Xbox and what we can look forward to seeing in the new year

Speaker: Nicholas Rayner – www.nicholasrayner.com

8:15– Close

To RSVP for the event, please goto our Facebook Events page or email windowsusergroup@live.com

Date: Wednesday 10th November

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, Windows Phone 7 Series, Windows Azure and more. (Do you have news? Tag it with #SWUG on twitter or comment below!)

6:20pm – Future of TV

Ben Haylock, from Crixa (a Microsoft BizSpark business) is also Group Manager for the next generation of IPTV services at Telstra Media.

Responsible for the execution and delivery of third party consumer electronics experiences, he has been in underground bunkers in Korea beavering away so you can watch IP television in your living room.

He ate the kimchi and drank the soju and is here to talk about The Next Thing: as far as those pesky NDAs allow!

Speaker: Ben Haylock – Crixa (a Microsoft BizSpark business) & Group Manager, IPTV at Telstra Media

7:00pm – Pizza and soft drink (please donate $5-10 to help cover the cost of Pizza)

7:20– Lightning talk – TV Tech: Right here, right now

Jodie Miners will gies us a quick rundown of the current TV tech available along with the benefits, drawbacks and cost comparison.

Speaker: Jodie Miners – http://jodiem.com.au/

7:40 – Foxtel via Xbox

Learning about the exciting new service from Foxtel and Microsoft Australia offering Foxtel via the Xbox.

Speaker: TBC

8:10– Panel Q&A

8:30– Close

To RSVP for the event, please goto our Facebook Events page or email windowsusergroup@live.com

Date: Wednesday 13th October 2010

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, Windows Phone 7 Series, Windows Azure and more. (Do you have news? Tag it with #SWUG on twitter or comment below!)

6:30pm – TEGA v2 Tablet

Hugo Ortega, Principal Tegatech (Twitter: @MrMobilePC) has been focussing on growing the tablet business in Australia, and recently in Europe. Not long ago he launched the TEGA Tablet (about the same time as the iPad) and is now launching the TEGA v2 Tablet. Come and see Hugo talk about the TEGA v2 and Tablet Computing as a whole.

Speaker: Hugo Ortega – http://www.tegatech.com.au

7:20pm – Pizza and soft drink (please donate $5-10 to help cover the cost of Pizza)

7:40– Dynamic memory and RemoteFX in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1: How will they enhance your virtual infrastructure?

Dynamic memory and RemoteFX are two exciting features that are coming in SP1 for Windows Server 2008 R2.  In this session we’ll dive down into what they are and how they work and show you them working in some  live demos.

Speaker: Jeff Alexander, Microsoft Australia – http://blogs.technet.com/jeffa36

8:30– Close

To RSVP for the event, please goto our Facebook Events page or email windowsusergroup@live.com

Date: Wednesday 11th August 2010

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, Windows Phone 7 Series, Windows Azure and more. (Do you have news? Tag it with #SWUG on twitter or comment below!)

6:30pm – Windows Home Server Codename Vail 

Microsoft recently made available an early beta of the next version of Windows Home Server, codenamed Vail. Windows Home Server is a server product for your home (well obviously!) that allows easy backup, media sharing and remote access. Nicholas will take you through the features of Windows Home Server codename Vail and show you some live demos of the Remote Access, Media Sharing and Configuration.

Speaker: Nicholas Rayner – http://nicholasrayner.com

7:20pm – Pizza and soft drink (please donate $5-10 to help cover the cost of Pizza)

7:40– Consumer Backup Software SMACKDOWN!

10 minutes for each presenter to cover the best features in their chosen backup solution and convince you that it’s the best!

Products include:

• Windows Home Server (backup)
• Windows 7 built-in backup
• Acronis
• Carbonite
• Jungle Disk – using Amazon S3
• Windows Live Sync
• Data Protection Manager 2010 (for the uber-geek in you)

More details soon

8:40 – Close

To RSVP for the event, please goto our Facebook Events page or email windowsusergroup@live.com

Date: Wednesday 14th July 2010

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, Windows Phone 7 Series, Windows Azure and more. (Do you have news? Tag it with #SWUG on twitter or comment below!)

6:30pm – Windows 7 Feature Smackdown! 

Dean Corcoran will take us through some of the amazing features in Windows 7 showing off his favourite features, features he is still discovering and even some you havent found yourself!

Dean has been a longtime supporter of the Sydney Windows User Group and has been involved in some of our best demos so far, so make sure you come along and see what Dean has instore for us this month

Speaker: Dean Corcoran http://www.pokeystuff.com/

7:20pm – Pizza and soft drink (please donate $5-10 to help cover the cost of Pizza)

7:40pm – Office Web Apps vs Google Docs

With the recent Beta availability of Office Web Apps (for consumers), it’s time we take Office Web Apps and Google Docs through their paces showing off the good, the bad and the awesome! Jodie Miners and Nicholas Rayner will demonstrate Office Web Apps and Google Docs focussing on collaboration and usability

Speaker: Jodie Miners & Nicholas Rayner

8:10– Windows Home Server Codename Vail

Microsoft recently made available an early beta of the next version of Windows Home Server, codenamed Vail. Windows Home Server is a server product for your home (well obviously!) that allows easy backup, media sharing and remote access. Nicholas will take you through the features of Windows Home Server codename Vail and show you some live demos of the Remote Access, Media Sharing and Configuration.

8:40 – Close

To RSVP for the event, please goto our Facebook Events page or email windowsusergroup@live.com

Date: Wednesday 9th April 2010

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, Windows Phone 7 Series, Windows Azure and more. (Do you have news? Tag it with #SWUG on twitter or comment below!)

6:30pm – Microsoft Office 2010

Office 2010 is now available to businesses and will be in shops on the 15th of June. In this session see Office, Visio, Project and SharePoint 2010 capabilities and hear about what organisations are already doing with the 2010 platform

Alistair Speirs will show how you can increase your productivity with Office 2010 including accessing important information through Office Web Apps and Office Mobile.

Speaker: Alistair Speirs – Office Technology Specialist, Microsoft Australia

7:30pm – Pizza and soft drink (please donate $5-10 to help cover the cost of Pizza)

7:45pm – Windows Intune

Windows Intune simplifies how businesses manage and secure PCs using Windows cloud services and Windows 7—so your computers and users can operate at peak performance. Windows Intune delivers cloud-based management and security capabilities that can be administered through a single Web-based console, enabling your end users and your IT staff to work from virtually anywhere-all that’s required is an Internet connection.

Jeff Alexander, ‘The’ IT Pro Evangelist at Microsoft Australia, will give us an overview of Windows Intune including the advanced tools for troubleshooting, security policy configuration, and virtualization that you can download and run in your environment.

Speaker: Jeff Alexander – The IT pro Evangelist, Microsoft Australia

8:45– Close

To RSVP for the event, please goto our Facebook Events page or email windowsusergroup@live.com

LIVE MEETING DETAILS

To join the Live Meeting, please click here. The Live Meeting will commence from 5:30pm (AEST)

I had planned a great SWUG for this month, but unfortunately due to the embargo on Office 2010 presentations (that provide a heap of detail) until after the official launch in New York this Wednesday, I haven’t been able to get a good meeting together, BUT I have come up with an alternative! (along with some help from others). With the launch of Office 2010 in New York on Wednesday, there are a number of events happening in Australia to replicate this. Once of these events in the Office 2010 launch in Sydney, this Thursday 13^th May. As they are covering a lot of the information I wanted covered for SWUG I am encouraging you all to come along to the Sydney SharePoint User Group on Thursday 13^th May to learn about Office 2010. The details for the User Group is:

Date: Thursday 13^th May 2010

Time: 5:30pm

Venue: Microsoft Australia – 1 Epping Road, Sydney

Website

Registration site

PS. They’ll be giving away an Xbox 360 and I want to see one of you win it!

To be in the running to win the ticket simply write a blog post about why you would like to attend the conference (eg to learn about a particular new feature in SharePoint 2010), include a link to the conference site, and email Craig a link to your post. Craig Bailey and I will be choosing the winner in mid-May.

Date: Wednesday 14th April 2010

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, Windows Phone 7 Series, Windows Azure and more. (Do you have news? Tag it with #SWUG on twitter or comment below!)

6:30pm – AuTechHeads Launch!

AuTechHeads is an exciting new group that focuses on geeks rather than individual technologies. We’re excited to host the official launch of the AuTechHeads website, and Matt will talk about how easy it is to join (and free!), and how you can get involved and contribute!

Speaker: Matt Marlor (aka Mr OhCrap)

7:15pm – Pizza and soft drink (please donate $5-10 to help cover the cost of Pizza)

7:45pm – Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack

The session will focus on the Microsoft Desktop Optimization pack for management and deployment. We will begin by discussing challenges that IT Professionals experience in deploying applications and managing desktop systems. Then we will discuss solutions around the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack offerings that simplify deployment and management while reducing IT costs. We will explore Microsoft Application Virtualization for Windows 7 clients to deploy applications on demand.

Speaker: Jeff Alexander

8:30 – Networking and random discussion

To round out the night, we’ll open the floor up for networking and random discussion. Feel free to vendor bash, i have no rules against that!

8:50– Close

To RSVP for the event, please goto our Facebook Events page or emailwindowsusergroup@live.com

LIVE MEETING DETAILS

To join the Live Meeting, please click here. The Live Meeting will commence from 5:30pm (AEST)

Date: Wednesday 17th March 2010

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 Beta, Windows Phone 7 Series, Windows Azure and more

6:30pm – Microsoft gets Mobility with Windows Phone 7 Series

A couple of weeks ago Microsoft announced their latest offering in the mobility space. Not to be confused with its lagging ancestors, Windows Phone 7 series is a dramatic departure from the “PC in your pocket” goal of the past. Not only has the user experience been completely revamped, including a new Start area with Tiles, Hubs, Panoramic views and application bar, there is also a brand new developer experience. Actually if you’re already an Silverlight or XNA developer you’ll be at home with the tools and technologies that can be used for building Windows Phone 7. In this session we’ll look at the new user experience, discuss some of the design guidelines of the new platform and look into the developer experience.

Speaker: Nick Randolph

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

7:45pm – Securing your Windows Device

Nicholas will provide an overview on how to secure your Windows Device including Anti-Virus, Online filtering, encryption and more. Please feel free to share your own security stories and ideas on the night

8:30 – Networking and random discussion

To round out the night, we’ll open the floor up for networking and random discussion. Feel free to vendor bash, i have no rules against that!

8:50– Close

To RSVP for the event, please goto our Facebook Events page or email windowsusergroup@live.com