Visiting Dallas

I’m off to Dallas. On Thursday, January 25th, I’ll be presenting a few topics on business/technology to the Dallas Fort Worth SBS User Group. I’ll be talking about:

• Corporate leadership (pre-event, Q&A)
• Exchange 2007
• ExchangeDefender, Shockey Monkey, virtual infrastructure

Just to break it down: Corporate leadership will be a pre-meeting for the members/leaders to discuss business issues. I do not have a presentation prepared, it will be a Q&A of what its like to start, manage and grow a business and manage a growing business. Yes, they are different things. Exchange 2007 will be a technical presentation. I intend to talk briefly about why Exchange 2007 is going to bring a fundamental shift to how we all work, far more so than Vista and even Office 2007 combined. I then intend to do a deployment (some smoke and mirrors, for timing purposes) scenario and walk through the basics and changes. Finally, a live demo of new OWA 2007, Exchange 2003 based on MMC/.NET 3 and any Q&A. Finally, discussion about the stuff I personally work on. It won’t be a sales/hard pitch, I intend to talk about the technology and how/what it does. So if you’re in town on Thursday please stop by, the meeting is hosted by Microsoft at their Las Colinas office.