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Podcasts, Videos, Webcasts
Geekin' Out At The Chalk - SMBiT Professionals Brisbane, in association with Alan Burchill and Bryce Telfer, present:
Sunday Spotlight Streaming Session 10:00 - 17:00, 23 October, 2011
G'day All (and anyone else listening in),
Just a heads up to let you know that SMBiT Professionals Brisbane is running a Spotlight Session this coming Sunday (2011-10-23) at the Chalk Hotel in Woolloongabba where we're delving into Group Policy with Alan Burchill and Remote Desktop Server with Bryce Telfer as related (in particular) to an SBS 2011 environment.
The event will be streamed live for financial SMBiT Professionals members in our SharePoint site, under the Brisbane sub-site.
For everyone else, the event will be streamed free (of cost, password, however not advertisements) at:
http://www.justin.tv/hiltont
http://www.Ustream.tv/channel/SMBiTPro-Brisbane
So, feel free to get your geek on with us this weekend - the show starts around 10:00 AM and will be over just in time for us to watch the Rugby Union final! :)
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Welcome to the first video in the Talking IT with James Bannan series, where I catch up with various movers and shakers in the IT industry and talk about geek stuff for a while.
This video is with John Pritchard, Optimised Desktop Specialist with Microsoft Australia. John ran the Perth and Adelaide sessions of Microsoft latest round of free workshops for IT professionals. The first round occurred earlier this year and revolved around Microsoft's virtualisation technologies - specifically Hyper-V and SCVMM. The latest round is all about Application Compatibility.
Microsoft are seeing customers expressing plenty of reservations about their existing suite of applications which need to be supported on Windows 7, and are looking for as many resources and as much guidance as possible to overcome and lingering issues and migrate to Windows 7.
There are two sessions left - one in Melbourne and the other in Canberra. Jeff Alexander has blogged about the details, and you use the details on his site to register. For any IT professional involved in deploying Windows 7, these workshops are a great resource and well worth the time (especially as they don't cost anything!).
Episode 15 of the Coalface Tech podcast is now online!
Episode 15 of the Coalface Tech podcast is now online!
In this episode, Steve and I caught up with Johann Kruse, Unified Communications guru with Microsoft Australia, to discuss the Release Candidate of Lync Server, the latest in Microsoft's UC platform.
Lync Server received a huge amount of attention at TechEd 2010, so make sure that you download the slide decks and presentations.
Unified Communications is one of those areas of technology which is rapidly changing business models. The need for office and in-house server infrastructure is diminishing, especially in smaller businesses with mobile, tech-savvy users. Solutions like BPOS take this even further, offering businesses a complete productivity and collaboration platform, which is highly-available and accessible anywhere.
Of course, the cloud is the great enabler, and we all threw our ideas out about what the cloud means to each of us (not in a group therapy sense, of course), but in drawing ...
I’ve been listening to Run As Radio for some time now and I found episode 167 thought provoking and wanted to share these thoughts. A bit of background.. Run As Radio is run by Richard Campbell and Greg Hughes. Some of you many know Richard from Dot NET Rocks his other podcast, others may have heard the episode of Coal Face Tech we recorded this year at Tech.Ed Australia where Richard was a guest.
Episode 167 featured Mark Minasi an IT trainer, consultant and author of well over 25 boo ...
I’ve been listening to Run As Radio for some time now and I found episode 167 thought provoking and wanted to share these thoughts. A bit of background.. Run As Radio is run by Richard Campbell and Greg Hughes. Some of you many know Richard from Dot NET Rocks his other podcast, others may have heard the episode of Coal Face Tech we recorded this year at Tech.Ed Australia where Richard was a guest.
Episode 167 featured Mark Minasi an IT trainer, consultant and author of well over 25 books based in the US. Ep167 featured a discussion around current server environments that both Richard and Mark have and thoughts on features that they would like to see in Windows 8.
Firstly the big point to note for both Mark and Richard they are both still running Windows Server 2003 for their web servers. By far the most complex servers in their respective environments. I found this an interesting point, certainly I tend not to muck around too much with my sit ...
Episode 14 of Coalface Tech is online! Windows 7 deployment, mobility and cloud (and prizes!)
Episode 14 of the Coalface Tech podcast is now online at AuTechHeads.
In this episode, I caught up with Jeff Alexander, IT Pro Evangelist with Microsoft Australia at TechEd 2010 to discuss what's going on in September 2010, which is Deployment Month. Windows 7 has been out for a year now, and many businesses have their deployment plans underway. Microsoft are keen to make sure that everyone has a smooth upgrade path, and in addition to the range of free tools and online resources, will be running Deployment labs (like the free Virtualisation labs run earlier this year).
There's also a mention of more TechNet Professional subscriptions to be won!
I also had a chat with Roger Lawrence, previously head of the Developer Platform Evangelist group at Microsoft Australia, and now Product Marketing Manager with Readify. We had a wide-ranging discussion covering the business impact of mobility and how it is influencing infrastructure specialists, how the cloud is making ...
Every organisation has its approach to deployment. We have recently reworked ours, so I thought I'd give you an example of one approach that, for us, is working well and will support our full rollout of Windows 7.
I'd been thinking of doing an "approach" post this week on Windows 7 deployment. As one of those happy coincidences, this week's Coalface Tech features an interview with Jeff Alexander (@jeffa36), one of the Microsoft evangelists who I've talked with and met a number of times. Jeff does a lot of work in the community, and is obviously passionate about deployment technologies - which makes it fun for me to listen since it's one of my own passions. The coincidence means that for once, my post is timely and relevant!
In my workplace, I take the role of our enterprise architect. Partly because it's one area as an IT Manager that I continue to be "allowed" to stay involved, but also because I've done it for so long. I design all our rollouts, be it for desktops, notebooks, servers, or mobile devices. One of my favourite tools for deployment is System Center Configuration Manager 2007 - SCCM, or ConfigMgr. I've blogged on ConfigMgr a few times, because it's an essential enabler for my IT team. I ...