Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 16:12:33 -0400
From: Pete Stagman <tyrstag@earthlink.net>
Subject: ---> WEDNESDAY MEETING NOTICE <-->
          Windows Server User Group <--

Boston Area Windows Server User Group

Meeting Announcement

Next Meeting: Wednesday, April 7th, 2004

Location: Microsoft Waltham
<http://www.microsoft.com/usa/offices/waltham.asp>



Agenda:

6:00 - 6:30 - Pizza, Networking, and Stump the Experts sponsored by NEC
<http://www.nec.com/> .  Bring your tough questions to the group and get
help resolving problems.




6:30 - 7:00 - Administrivia

Who are we, and what is BUG <http://www.bostonusergroups.com/> .  Who
are the BUG/WSUG sponsors.

How do you contact us.

NEISUG Auction <http://www.neisug.com/Auction/Default.htm>  announcement
(see also "Notices" below)

WSUG Premium Membership

Book Reviews

Free Microsoft Security
<http://www.windowsboston.com/PT_MS_Security.htm>  workshop

SearchWin2000's <http://www.windowsboston.com/TT_MS_Report%20Card.htm>
annual report card for Microsoft





7:00 - 8:00 - Let's Get Physical - an Introduction to Layer 1
Infrastructure Cabling, Dana Caggiano of Atlantic Solutions Group and
Sarah Fitzgerald of Krone <http://www.kroneamericas.com/>

Cabling and infrastructure - the black box of your network.  Come learn
the basics of wiring from the closet to the faceplate.  Sarah will
discuss the applicable standards and why they are important, then do
some hands on demos so you can understand what your electrician is

doing.  Sarah will also discuss some common problems and how they
manifest themselves in a network environment - troubleshooting tips for
the black box.



8:00 - 8:50 - High Availability Servers and IA-64 Supercomputers -
What's cool in the labs, John Devereaux, NEC <http://www.nec.com/> .

See what technologies are being developed that push the hardware
envelope when John Devereaux presents some of the highest end equipment
that windows can support.  There will be a demo of some of the cooler
fault-tolerant hardware.



8:50      Raffle/giveaways

9:00     Finished


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