Tuesday Feb 12th 2008
From the desk of Ben Serebin, President of the NY Exchange Users Group
We have our upcoming monthly meeting on Tuesday 2/12. Doors open at 6pm, and meeting starts at 6:30pm. New RSVP details, so see below. As always, meetings are free (free pizza dinner), open to all, excellent raffle items (Office 2007 Professional, Vista Ultimate, & Exchange 2003 Server), and a great learning environment for folks.
This should be an excellent meeting on Tuesday about Good Technology's sync solution (GMM). I also blogged about my first hand deployment of GMM on my Exchange via my new Palm Centro, and sadly had to give up GMM and return to ActiveSync on it (I still have my BlackBerry as well, don't worry). To read more about this, checkout https://ehlotech.blogspot.com/2008/01/first-hand-feedback-of-activesync.html .
Another item I would like to highlight is a new user group (National Information Security Group which has close ties with the Boston Area Exchange Server User Group. See below for more information on this new group and their upcoming meeting on Mon Feb 11, titled "Cyber Surveillance and Employee Monitoring - What Techniques Are Available, Should We Even Use Them and What Are Employer/Employee Rights?"
And I posted a survey at on our website, that asks "Plans to upgrade to Exchange 2007" and "Do you have a DR solution"? https://www.nyexug.com on bottom left of the menu bar.
Looking forward to seeing everyone at the meeting,
-Ben
P.S. Oh, and I might have a surprise for folks attending the meeting...
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NYExUG RSVP CHANGE - RSVP Due Mon 2/11 by 12pm EST
- please RSVP as soon as possible. If in doubt, rsvp due to building security.
Due to the popularity of the group, I can no longer manually process RSVP emails. So, you have 2 options.
1) use Microsoft's Click To Attend. You do NOT need to sign-up for a hotmail, msn, etc, you can use your existing email address.
https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=123807
-- OR --
2) use MeetUp.com, and register with your full name. If you do not, you will not be entered into the building security system.
https://mswindows.meetup.com/3/?gj=sj2
NYExUG Partner 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.
Meeting Sponsor - Good Technology
February Meeting Topic
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
Live Meeting will be announced same day of event as well. Attendees have chance to win numerous raffle prizes awarded at end of meeting. Just a reminder... you can find previous meetings information & LiveMeeting's recordings and upcoming events on the website.... www.nyexug.com
LiveMeeting information - Will Start at 6:30pm.
Make sure you dial in with a real phone to hear audio. LiveMeeting is only used for the video component.
Use the information below to connect:
Toll-free: +1 (866) 500-6738
Toll: +1 (203) 480-8000
Participant code: 386862
First Time Users:
To save time before the meeting, check your system to make sure it is ready to use Microsoft Office Live Meeting.
Troubleshooting, Unable to join the meeting? Follow these steps:
Copy this address and paste it into your web browser:
https://www112.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/join
Copy and paste the required information:
Meeting ID: 388JGP
Entry Code: JW8PKM
Location: https://www112.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft
Upcoming Meetings & Events
March - StealthBITS Technology - A vendor presented Exchange auditing solution by StealthBITS. Keep track of Exchange Server changes via this solution.
April - Microsoft, Presented by Stephen Chirico, Sr. Technology Solutions Profession of Unified Communications - technical information into the Unified Communication Solution. This will not be your typical marketing presentation about UC, but more along the technical details and what's required and how to deploy.
May - TBA
2 Mailing Lists
NYExUG Announce Mailing List - meetings, events, etc
NYExUG User Mailing List - for posting comments, and general talk among members.
Visit www.nyexug.com and on left side under lists click "How to contact us" to learn how to join each list.
Agenda
6pm - "Doors" Open
6pm on - Pizza Arrives
6:30pm - Main Presentation
8:30-9pm End time (typically)
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**Meeting Location - Address**Microsoft NYC Office
6th Floor, in the Place Conference Room (at receptionist, go left, right, and left down hall)
The meetings occur every 2nd Tuesday of every Month. All meetings are held at Microsoft, 1290 Avenue of the Americas (between 51st/52nd) in New York.
Question of the Month
What 2 tools should you use to test performance your new Exchange install? Come to the meeting to find out or see online following the meeting.
Think you know everything about Exchange, you haven't attended a NYExUG meeting then. See https://www.nyexug.com for more information.
Interested in Speaking- Speakers can be Exchange Admins, Network Admins, and anyone knowledge-able of Exchange. Topics could be highlighting a certain aspect of Exchange (e.g. X400, Connectors, RUS, Storage Groups, Shared Hosting, etc), a product you use in your organization that is extremely helpful in increasing your productivity. If in doubt, email me, Ben Serebin. Email address below.
Interesting Sponsoring a Meeting or Topic
- contact me for more information on this.
Future Meeting Topics
Other Topics Interested In - Anti-virus, Common Problems and Troubleshooting, Defragmention of Store, Cached Mode, PBX Integration (if you are a vendor, and are interested in presenting these, let me know.)
Job Postings
- none currently
Interesting Events Happening
The National Information Security Group (NAISG) has just formed a New York City chapter, and will hold its second meeting on Monday, February 11 at the Microsoft office in Manhattan. NAISG started in the New England region and has close ties with the Boston Area Exchange Server User Group and the Boston Windows Server User Group; we would like to do the same for the NYC chapter.
The keynote presentation will be "Cyber Surveillance and Monitoring – Should We, How Do We, And What Are Our Rights As Employers And Employees?" to be presented by Brad Dinerman, former chair of the Boston Area Exchange Server User Group, founder and president of NAISG, and Microsoft MVP. The presentation will also include demonstrations of common software and hardware utilities such as keystroke loggers. Details about the presentation and the group in general can be found at https://nyc.naisg.org.
1. FEBRUARY MEETING (Monday, 2/11)
A> "Cyber Surveillance and Employee Monitoring - What Techniques Are Available, Should We Even Use Them and What Are Employer/Employee Rights?"
Brad Dinerman, founder and president of NAISG, Microsoft MVP, author of Windows Server 2003 Networking Recipes and Vice President of IT at MIS Alliance, will lead a discussion on issues regarding employee monitoring. He will identify some of the key issues from both an employer's and an employee's perspective, such as having acceptable use policies and the right to monitor email; and solicit thoughts and feedback from the audience. Demonstrations of common tools such as key loggers will be given. This presentation will be of interest to anyone in the IT and security field, management and those involved in HR.
>> If you have not yet done so, please send an e-mail to Meetings-NYC@naisg.org indicating that you plan to attend the meeting, as we have a limited number of seats available. We need to know your full name due to restrictions by building security, and you will have to provide a photo ID upon entering the building.
AND SPEAKING OF PIZZA...Does your company want to sponsor pizza for this or for an upcoming meeting? We are always in need of organizations to provide the pizza sponsorship. If interested, please see https://nyc.naisg.org/Sponsors for costs and benefits and then let us know. (Amongst other things, we'll provide a table at the meeting on which your company can provide literature or product demos for members.)
The meeting will be on Monday, February 11, at 6:30 PM. The meeting will be held at the Microsoft in Manhattan. [Directions are on our Web site at https://nyc.naisg.org/meetings.] The meeting will start with a general introduction to the group, followed by an open Q&A period and then the presentation.