From: Arnoldbilansky@cs.com Subject: [DotNetLearn] Tues special meeting SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Date: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 00:53:22 Because of the MVP speaker available to us due to TechEd, we shift our meeting night this month. As a bonus we plan to bring along several more door prizes than usual! Date: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at 7pm Location: Microsoft, 201 Jones Rd., Waltham, MA As usual the meeting is free and open to the public with no prereservation needed. If you can help transport our speaker one or both ways between the Boston Convention Center and our meeting site at Microsoft in Waltham please e-mail me using the subject "Transport Speaker" Topic: SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Join Andrew Coates in exploring SQL Express, the Microsoft free SQL Server 2005 database server is an incredibly powerful tool. With SQL Server becoming a corporate standard in many companies the need to understand and provide SQL Server based solutions is high. This session looks at how easy it is to incorporate SQL Server Express into your products using both VFP and Microsoft .Net 2.0, thereby giving your clients access to the power of SQL Server with zero cost. The session also covers the limitations of SQL Express compared to the full licensed versions. Andrew is a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft, based in Sydney, Australia. This is a role which sees him travelling to speak with developers both locally and abroad. Prior to joining Microsoft, Andrew ran Civil Solutions, a database software company specialising in geographical and spatial data presentation as well as developer coaching and mentoring. He was a regular contributor to FoxWiki and UniversalThread, has written a dozen FoxTalk articles and presented at GLGDW in Milwaukee and at every OzFox conference. ************************************** Brad Dinnerman has requested the we also share the following announcement. The June meeting of the New England Information Security Group (NEISG) will be held at the Microsoft Tech-Ed conference in downtown Boston. In addition to being off-site, it will also be slightly off-date. The meeting will occur on Monday, June 12, at 7:00 PM. This corresponds to the evening of the first full day of the TechEd conference. Details on Tech-Ed in general are at http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2006. Directions to the Boston Convention and Exposition Center are at http://www.mccahome.com/bcec_dir.html. The meeting will be held in Room #51. All attendees must first check-in at the Ancillary Events Desk to pick up their admission badge!!! Here is what we have in store: PRESENTATIONS: 1. "Computer Intrusion and Internet Fraud:" Special agents from the Infragard Program of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will discuss their technical investigations of computer intrusions and Internet fraud. Details of Infragard Boston are at http://www.infragard-boston.org. 2. "Proactively Hardening Your Windows Network," presented by Gary Miliefsky of NetClarity. In this session, Miliefsky will discuss the key network security issues and compliance risks in Microsoft Windows Networks. You will learn about common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs), which are the root cause of downtime and out of compliance. In addition, IT compliance pressures in government and industry have created the need for a paper trail of due care and due diligence. You'll learn how to tie network security and IT compliance together in the easiest possible way, with a few clicks of the mouse to harden your Windows network. >> If you have not yet done so, please send a courtesy e-mail to TechEd@neisg.org indicating that you plan to attend the meeting. This meeting is sponsored by Culminis Alliance (http://www.culminis.com) and NetClarity (http://www.netclarity.com). Special thanks to both of these organizations for making this meeting happen. TECH-ED EXPO: For the evening of our meeting, all NEISG members attending the meeting will also receive a free pass to the Tech-Ed exposition (a $50 value), which will include booths from 200 vendors, appetizers and drinks. Anyone wishing to attend the expo in addition to our meeting should first send a request to TechEd@neisg.org, and we will then send you instructions on where to pick up your pass. FREE GAMING CHAIRS: Check out the gaming chairs at http://www.neisg.org/images/gamingchair.jpg. Thanks to Culminis Alliance, we have 25 of these to give FREE to NEISG members. The catch: you can only pick them up at Tech-Ed on Friday afternoon. If you want to reserve one for yourself, please send an email to TechEd@neisg.org indicating your interest and we will confirm with details of pickup time and location. Please do not ask for one if you cannot seriously pick it up. BRAD'S BIRD-OF-A-FEATHER SESSION: Although not strictly part of the NEISG meeting, I will be moderating a session at Tech-Ed on Thursday, June 15 at 10:15 AM. The topic will be "End-Users: The Weakest Link in the Security Chain - What Can We Do To Make Them Secure?" Description: "As system and network managers, we try our best to enforce security, write acceptable use policies and lock down the network to protect ourselves against all levels of threats. Yet end-users are notoriously the weakest link, using simple passwords posted on sticky notes, not locking workstations, downloading malicious files and much, much more. In this open forum, we will discuss the most common issues that we face when dealing with end-users and also describe some of the methods that we've used or want to use to bring them into compliance to keep our systems secure." For details on the Birds-of-a Feather sessions, see http://www.msteched.com/content/bof.aspx _______________________________________________ DotNetLearn mailing list DotNetLearn@blu.org http://olduvai.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/dotnetlearn