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Registration is now open! http://rochspug.eventbrite.com/ SharePoint User Group Meeting - Thursday, March 8, 2012 6:00PM - 8:30PM User Group website http://www.rochspug.org/ Chris Bortlik, Drive Adoption and Get Users Excited About SharePoint Session Abstract You can lead a horse to water, but how are...

Virtualization Deep Dive Day 2012 Coming To Boston March 10th 2012 – Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to learn about Cloud and Virtualization. . Registration is open for the fourth annual Virtualization Deep Dive Day. Act now while you can still take advantage of the Early Bird Discount. This event...

IT Camp - Systems Management - Free Training Friday, October 28, 2011 from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM (ET) Microsoft Office's - 201 Jones - Road Sixth Floor - Waltham, MA 02451 Register for Free Training@: http://itcamp-waltham.eventbrite.com/ You are not going to want to miss this event. Notice the hands on...

In August of 2012, our Microsoft employees based in Waltham and our Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) will be moving to One Cambridge Center, just a short walk from the majority of our R&D employees at our New England Research and Development Center at One Memorial Drive. We are excited to have our...

Key To Almost Infinite Knowledge – Passive Listening… Do you make the time to keep up with technology?  If you are not expanding your knowledge, you are falling behind.  With the job market the way it is, you would be smart to keep learning.  I know we are all busy and doing more now than...

Microsoft Virtualization and Cloud Certification Study Group(s) in this post… Study Group Proposal Why Get Certified What Are Microsoft Virtualization Certification Options? Browse Certification Catalog for additional certification options ...

There was a very interesting article written by  BtoB Online about “ The importance of in-person ” that I think will be of interest to all. The white paper they reference was written by Cornell University. It gives advice (which I can personally validate with my own experience) that should be understood...

This coming Thursday at NERD there is a Boston Azure meeting that I think will appeal very much to the IT Pro! It is an opportunity to learn both about PowerShell and Windows Azure in one night. Joel Bennett - a PowerShell MVP from out of state - will first give a PowerShell tutorial/overview, then will...

I will try this out as well.  Want to play games at my next user group presentation?  Bring it on!   TITLE:  Engage Your Students with Lessons They can Click For some time now, Microsoft has been involved in an ongoing dialogue with educators, students, and others in the education...

The event will take place on Friday, February 12, 2010.  It is a live event being simulcast to multiple locations.  It will also be recorded and made available online a few days after the event.  You do have to register to attend and to download the event.  All the details and registration...

At our community conference call last week a request came up for a community IT Pro Community Certification Gathering. If we were to pilot a “Community Certification Program”, what should it look look? Please fill out the survey at... http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=7rwrMybNwuMJ_2bkHK5b3slQ_3d_3d...

On June 25th we had a “North East Region IT Pro Monthly Community Conference Call with Dan Stolts”. The purpose of the call was for me to reach out to the community to find out what I can do you you. ===================================== Comments and Questions from the field… ==============...

Microsoft IT Pro Evangelists are ready to help. With the many staffing changes over the last 8 months or so Microsoft has increased the number of "Community Leaders" in the IT Pro Space. As little as a year ago there was only one person for the entire east coast of the United States. Now there are four...

Chris Bowen created a create blog post about publishers offering support for user groups . It is a great post that you should all be aware of. It lists many publishers and links to the programs they have setup for user groups. ie, how to get free books for your group meetings!!!! In addition to his list...

Do you have a New Years Resolution?  If not, or you would just like one you can keep, I would love to help you help your community.  There are literally thousands of community groups all over the country and all over the world.  These are groups that get together sometimes face to face...

Registration Link : https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=134471   Featured Product/Topic: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Recommended Audience: IT Professionals Join us for the SQL Server Loadfest and do a hands-on installation of SQL Server 2008. There is limited availability of tables...

At the Windows Server User Group in Waltham MA this week we talked about system tools that IT Pro's use to make their life easier. Many tools were presented by many people. Many of these tools were part of the Sysinternals tool set so I thought I would make a post to organize these tools and give you...

A very special award was given to a couple of very special community leaders in the New England (Boston) market. Ron Thibeau and John Ross were awarded a "Community Super Hero Award". I have copied the actual award here to let everyone know just how special these guys are and how invaluable they are...

The attendees of this event are in for a real treat! Blain Barton will be joining us. Blain is the East Coast Community Champ. Blain is coming up from Florida to join us. He is well aware of the very active technology community we have in the North East and he is coming to meet and greet our local...

Please see attached document resource handout from the event.

Greetings, Lots of questions about the Virtualization Deep Dive Day so here is the scoop. As some of you know, this event has been in the planning for many months. It is being run by an all volunteer organization (the local user group community). We tried to do a bit too much with the event. For starters...

A message to IT Pro Community and User Group Leaders in the North East United States: My Blog so far has been me introducing myself to you. Now it it is your turn. I would like you to ping me with information about your group. Starting in July I will be holding a monthly conference call for the leaders...

Just wanted to post a reminder for the user group leaders that have a Heroes Kit that they need to register their TechNet subscription winners. To do this.. Login to the Hero's site http://www.heroescommunitylaunch.com/default.aspx using the Passport login that you used when you registered for you kit...

As you know by now, I am a techno geek! Most of my Blog posts will be about technology. I will however include non-technology information as I see fit to share (hobbies, news, etc). I have never really been accused of having a sense of humor so you will not see a Joke of the day post or anything like...

Dictionary.com defines an evangelist as "a person marked by evangelical enthusiasm for or support of any cause" ( http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/evangelist ) Merriam Webster defines evangelist as, "an enthusiastic advocate <an evangelist for physical fitness>" ( http://www.merriam-webster...