Subject: December Meeting Change
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 15:35:20 -0500
From: "Chair - ExchangeServerBoston" <Chair@exchangeserverboston.com


The December meeting of ExchangeServerBoston will NOT meet on Monday, 
December 13th. It will also NOT meet on its usual 4th Thursday of the 
month. We are looking at changing our Meeting Day for 2005 and will let 
you know soon…


Instead ExchangeServerBoston members are encouraged to join the combined 
meeting of the New England Information Security Group (NEISG) and 
WindowsBoston User Groups in a look at Virtual Machine Technologies. 
Virtual computers are extremely useful in the messaging space… for testing 
patches and new releases, building that Exchange Lab you’ve always talked 
about, trying out different upgrade scenarios, or for taking that new beta 
for a spin.

The meeting this month will be on Thursday, December 16 at 6:30 PM. As 
usual, it will be held at the Microsoft office in Waltham, MA. [Directions 
on their website at <http://www.neisg.org/http://www.neisg.org].
The meeting will start with a general introduction to the user groups, 
followed by an open Q&A period and then the keynote presentations.
"Server Consolidation and Systems Testing:" Paul Bowen of the Electronic 
Systems Center at Hanscom Air Force Base and member of NEISG's board of 
directors, will discuss virtual machines and their usefulness as testing 
platforms and hosts for server consolidation. Paul will demonstrate his 
techniques using EMC's VMWare as the VM provider.
"Honey Pots and Forensics:" Joe Kinsella, director of development at 
SilverBack Technologies and author of an upcoming article on virtual 
machines in Windows IT Pro Magazine, will put the security twist on VMs 
and demonstrate their usefulness as "honey pot" systems. Honey pots are 
systems that are explicitly designed to attract hackers in the hopes of 
catching or watching them in their actions and then analyzing their 
movements to learn their techniques. Paul will demonstrate his techniques 
using Microsoft's Virtual PC 2004.

Please send a courtesy e-mail to me 
(<mailto:Chair@ExchangeServerBoston.comChair@ExchangeServerBoston.com or 
Brad at <mailto:Chair@neisg.orgChair@neisg.org indicating that you plan 
to attend the meeting so that we can order the correct quantity of pizza. 
[Pizza for this meeting will be sponsored by Silverback Technologies.]

Also of note, NEISG will have CipherTrust presenting at their January 
meeting. CipherTrust showed their messaging security appliances to the 
ExchangeServerBoston User Group earlier this year.

Pinnacle Training is a Sponsor of ExchangeServerBoston. Members of 
ExchangeServerBoston are entitled to a nice Discount off of their training 
fees. Call if interested and mention ExchangeServerBoston. Lee Benjamin, 
aka ExchangeGuy and Chair of ExchangeServerBoston, will be teaching the 
following courses...
Exchange 2003 Loadfest, 1 Day, December 10
Exchange 2003 Implementation, 2400, 5 Days, December 13-17, January 3-7, 
January 24-28
NEW- Exchange 2003 Design+Troubleshooting, 2008/2011, 5 Days, January 10-14
NEW- Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 (MOM), 2287, 3 Days, January 17-19

Safe Holidays to All,
Lee~
Lee Benjamin
Chair, ExchangeServerBoston User Group
<mailto:Chair@ExchangeServerBoston.comChair@ExchangeServerBoston.com
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