WI Windows User Group - Event Review
On Tuesday night I attended the first Wisconsin Windows User Group event at UW-Milwaukee. Coordinated by Brian Tinkler (photo by Daryll McDade) and a host of other committee members, WI-WUG is an exciting new group dedicated to creating a community for network engineers, system administrators, and managers of Microsoft Windows to learn and share their knowledge. It's an excellent group for the Milwaukee area and will only compliment the existing .NET users group.
As typical events of this nature, pizza and pop were provided. I didn't quite get the sponsors name, but thanks go out to them. The pizza was delightful. There was plenty to go around, unfortunately. I expect that Attendance for the event was pretty low, there was supposdly quite a few people that signed-up but didn't show. I would expect the attendance to continue to pick up in the future. That didn't stop the great presentation by Brian Lewis of Microsoft. Brian discussed "Windows Platform Futures" ranging from the 64-bit future to patching schedules and planned releases. He handled all audience questions very well and demonstrated a great passion for the platforms. As I don't have much hands-on experience with many of the server versions of Windows he was talking about I can't judge at what skill level he was really speaking at. His sampler presentation though was an excellent choice for the first presentation, I don't think a better speaker could have been selected.
Everyone in attendance received a free copy of Microsoft Office 2003 and OneNote courtesy of Microsoft. The post presentation discussion ranged from problems with Longhorn betas to how you can use Skype on your cell phone via bluetooth. Leaving the building and finding the parking ramp proved to be an adventure. I walked out with Brian Lewis and another guy (didn't catch his name), and it was an adventure. I felt like we circled the UWM Union a few times before Brian managed to find the lot. We had an older lady that was wandering around the building with her husband offer to call security for us. The experience proved to be pretty amusing. The location overall was much larger than the Microsoft Office in Waukesha and should definitely be considered for the .NET users group and proved to be a very suitable location for the WI-WUG.
Glitches aside, it was an excellent first meeting. I look forward to the next one on the 28th featuring Larry Boettger speaking about Real World Security Threats and What You Can Do About Them with special guests from Microsoft.
Tags: Microsoft, Milwauee, Windows, User Group
As typical events of this nature, pizza and pop were provided. I didn't quite get the sponsors name, but thanks go out to them. The pizza was delightful. There was plenty to go around, unfortunately. I expect that Attendance for the event was pretty low, there was supposdly quite a few people that signed-up but didn't show. I would expect the attendance to continue to pick up in the future. That didn't stop the great presentation by Brian Lewis of Microsoft. Brian discussed "Windows Platform Futures" ranging from the 64-bit future to patching schedules and planned releases. He handled all audience questions very well and demonstrated a great passion for the platforms. As I don't have much hands-on experience with many of the server versions of Windows he was talking about I can't judge at what skill level he was really speaking at. His sampler presentation though was an excellent choice for the first presentation, I don't think a better speaker could have been selected.
Everyone in attendance received a free copy of Microsoft Office 2003 and OneNote courtesy of Microsoft. The post presentation discussion ranged from problems with Longhorn betas to how you can use Skype on your cell phone via bluetooth. Leaving the building and finding the parking ramp proved to be an adventure. I walked out with Brian Lewis and another guy (didn't catch his name), and it was an adventure. I felt like we circled the UWM Union a few times before Brian managed to find the lot. We had an older lady that was wandering around the building with her husband offer to call security for us. The experience proved to be pretty amusing. The location overall was much larger than the Microsoft Office in Waukesha and should definitely be considered for the .NET users group and proved to be a very suitable location for the WI-WUG.
Glitches aside, it was an excellent first meeting. I look forward to the next one on the 28th featuring Larry Boettger speaking about Real World Security Threats and What You Can Do About Them with special guests from Microsoft.
Tags: Microsoft, Milwauee, Windows, User Group
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