Sydney Windows User Group

This month’s meeting of the Sydney Windows User Group is coming up this Wednesday 11th August 2010 and will be covering the latest Microsoft and related news, Windows Home Server Codename Vail (no time last month) and a consumer backup smackdown! For those who can’t make it on the night, we’ll make the presentations and demos available online after the event

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

This month’s meeting of the Sydney Windows User Group is coming up this Wednesday 14th July 2010 and will be covering the latest Microsoft and related news, Windows 7 Features Smackdown! and Windows Home Server Codename Vail. For those who can’t make it on the night, we’ll make the presentations and demos available online after the event

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

This month’s meeting of the Sydney Windows User Group is coming up this Wednesday 9^th June 2010 and will be covering the latest Microsoft and related news, the official launch of AuTechHeads and the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack. For those who can’t make it on the night, we’ll be streaming this month’s User Group over Live Meeting (see below for details)

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)

Hi all,

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!

Thanks to the organisers of the Australian SharePoint Conference both the Sydney Business & Technology User Group and the Sydney Windows User Group have a ticket each (total of 2) to giveaway! So after talking with Craig Bailey, we have decided to hold a joint competition to giveaway the two tickets. The tickets are valued at $650 each and will give you full access to the conference.

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.