Seattle Exchange User Group
The Seattle User Group last night was awesome…..If you didn’t make it, you missed a great event.
It was held at Parlor Billiards in downtown Bellevue. Terry Myerson (MSFT) came by to participate on the panel. In addition to Terry (GM of Exchange), the list of panelists was Brad Garvey (NTAP), Karl Robinson (HPQ), Evan Morris (HPQ), Tom Keough (MSFT), Chris Polk (MSFT), Deb Pringer (GSI), and myself Joshua Maher. Rob Herman did a wonderful job moderating.
The group had some good questions about recomendations for deploying Exchange 2007 in their own environments. Most of the people who came are looking to deploy E2k7 in the near future (and these all represent major companies in the Seattle area).
The most critical components in questions were High Availability, scaling, Disaster Recovery, and how to convince the telecom group that UM is a good move.
Besides the poor turnout (due to terrible traffic and the recent storm leaving people without power through today ~131k this morning), we had good turnout of people. MS had give-a-ways…..$50 gift certs to Barnes & Nobles…..they gave away a zune…..and they brought in a trick shot pool artist
If you missed it and are looking forward to the next user group….Rob and I are working feverishly to figure out the best date/time & topic (suggestions welcome). If you are not local and are going to be in town and want to speak let me know!
Btw, in case you missed the last Ignite Seattle, I received notice the next one already has a venue & date/time picked out. 02/13/2007 @ the Capitol Hill Arts Center. Brier Dudley is already talking about it…. If you want to come by, I’ll be there and we can have a drink and chat….
December 20, 2006 at 1:29 pm
Ah, they gave away a Zune. I was wondering what the joke prize was going to be.
December 21, 2006 at 2:03 pm
thanks for leaving a comment on my blog. Do you know of a exchange user group in the NJ/NJ area?
December 21, 2006 at 4:36 pm
Yeah, you just missed a meeting in New York…
http://blogs.technet.com/mjmurphy/archive/2006/12/11/ny-exchange-users-group-meets-tomorrow-night.aspx
Check out their main site for the next meeting:
http://www.culminisconnections.com/sites/nyexug/default.aspx
December 22, 2006 at 1:06 pm
[...] A lot of companies partner with Microsoft, and some companies (like HP) are really good at talking about their partnership. There are of course lots of other companies that do this kind of partnering, and usually the engineers on site are very smart and friendly individuals (in fact there were a few with me on my user group panel earlier this week). [...]
December 31, 2006 at 9:27 am
I got this zune download that is a blast. i am glad microsoft is catching up. I know they get a lot of flack but i like them