Get ready for Matt & Bill! presented by Matt Hester & Bill Steele
Tuesday, August 28 at the Huber Heights Athletic Foundation Hall, Huber Heights, Ohio No charge.    Please bring a friend.    Guests welcome. Please join us Tuesday, August 28, 2007 for this free presentation in Huber Heights Athletic Foundation Hall, Huber Heights, Ohio. We'll begin at 7:00 p.m. Bring a friend. by Nancy Christolear, The DataBus editor

Microsoft Comes to Town!

Matt Hester and Bill Steele from Microsoft will be our guests for the general meeting in August. They will be here for another Microsoft Tech Day. DMA® members that attended the last one noticed that the next Tech Day will be the same day as our August General meeting. Quick thinking and we have Matt and Bill on the schedule. Matt and Bill have spent time with us many times and its always fun and informative. In fact, Matt and Bill are so smooth they could take their act to one of the local comedy clubs. But we have them here ready to answer your questions about Microsoft products.

If you were thinking that they were just here, you are right. See Microsoft finally saw the light. They are going to alternate events between Dayton and Cincinnati. So Dayton will get the August-September show. Cincinnati will be graced in October, November, December. Then back to Dayton in the first quarter of 2008. This is good news. The events in Dayton and Cincinnati are drawing from the same population pool.

So what's up for Microsoft Tech day in August? Well..

Bill Steele will present the TechNet event on Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Forefront, and System Center. Learn how to save the day with hot new solutions from TechNet Events. Join us for these free sessions and transform your IT environment into a secure and well-managed infrastructure with Microsoft Forefront and Microsoft System Center. You'll get the inside scoop on Essentials 2007—a unified management solution that enables IT pros to run a mid-size business environment with greater confidence and efficiency. We'll also cover the benefits of the new TCP/IP protocol suite and how to tune TCP/IP for top performance. Finally, we'll explore the next generation of networking features in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista that boost performance, scalability and manageability.

Matt Hester will be presenting the MSDN event. Connect with like-minded coders at this free, half-day of learning from MSDN Events. Experience a new day for developers, where integrating queries directly into your programming language of choice with LINQ can yield incredible productivity boosts. You'll also learn how WCF can help you to design distributed interoperable systems with greater ease and maximum control. Finally, you'll see how Silverlight makes it a snap to provide Web users with a tremendously rich browser experience. Connect with your peers and get the lowdown on cuttingedge technologies at these live sessions in your local area.

Microsoft will also be presenting Connections and their TS2 Microsoft Partners events. These are more business oriented. Take a walk down memory lane as we trace the evolution of Microsoft® Windows® and Office products as they've grown to meet the needs of small business owners. We'll discuss how the new Windows Vista. and 2007 Microsoft Office system will continue to support that growth. Learn the different aspects of small business server solutions, and how Windows Small Business Server 2003 can increase your business efficiencies. We'll also focus on Windows Mobile + Exchange Server Experience and Microsoft Dynamics,. and discuss how these products can help your business to evolve and grow with your customer needs.

At the TS2 Event, we'll discuss how you can build a business model that supports your customers' business goals after you've made the initial sale. You'll learn about the revenue opportunities in Managed Services and the support tools Microsoft has to offer. We'll cover:

• Increasing your revenue opportunities with Managed Services offerings that include System Center Essentials 2007, Forefront Client Security, and Exchange Hosted Services.
• Building a reoccurring revenue model around security management with Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer, Microsoft Software Inventory Analyzer, and Windows Server Update Services.
• Engaging new prospects with Microsoft programs like Windows Genuine Advantage, Competitive Sales Assistance, and the Ready to Go Campaigns.

So go to www.technetevents.com and sign up for the FREE Microsoft events and spend the day with Matt and Bill. Then join us in the evening at our general meeting for more information and the answers to your questions SEE YOU AUGUST 28th.

HHAF Hall

Easy Access

Facility is wheelchair accessible.
RTA route 19 runs travels Brandt past Fishburg, one block from the building.

FREE Parking

Plenty of free parking is available at the facility.

Directions

HHAF Hall is one block West of Brandt Pike, just beyond the Huber Heights Post Office.

From I-70, take Brandt Pike (201) South to Fishburg.
From I-75, take Needmore East, then North on Brandt Pike(201) to Fishburg.
From Rte 35, take Woodman Drive North, then Right on Brandt Pike(201) to Fishburg. For your convenience, here's a Google map of 5367 Fishburg Road.

Pizza

After the meeting, we'll enjoy food, beverages, and conversation at C's Pizza, 5186 Brandt Pike, Huber Heights. It's a bit closer to the meeting than last month's pizzeria was. From the meeting, go east on Fishburg about 0.2 miles to Brandt Pike, then south on Brandt about 0.8 miles to Ci's Pizza.

Reason for Changes

DMA Trustees have been struggling to provide adequate facilities for our monthly General Membership meetings. Both UD and WSU presented challenges. We have been searching for a location that is comfortable for our members, room enough for all attendees, offers free parking, equipped with audio, visual, and internet, and still affordable for the organization. HHAF Hall meets all qualifications. Apple-Dayton meets here regularly.

April was our trial month and it went well. We have reserved the Warrior Room for the coming year.

All are welcome. The meetings start at 7:00 p.m. Guests are always welcome.

Nancy Christolear, Editor
The DataBus
editor@dma.org

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