We had Michael Kleef (Microsoft IT Pro Evangelist) pay us a visit and present ISA 2004. We had a great turnout of around 15 - not sure if it was Michael or the pizza that brought them in though!
Our numbers have grown again since the MS/HP/Trend Micro SMB Partner Summit presentations touring the country hit Adelaide. In fact we've seen great response from MS partners in each of the cities which is fantastic. I think this calls for another blog entry - stay tuned.
Back to the user group meeting - Michael showed us the new face of ISA Server, highlighting it's “secure by default“ design which prevents any traffic from flowing through the firewall until it's setup to allow it. The presentation deck will be available for download from the meeting page of www.sbsusers.net as soon as I get it posted up (just have to find that USB key...).
We also saw the template based configuration available with ISA where we even get little pictures showing us what the configuration will look like. I'm sure Dr Tom's site has plenty of documentation on this available - check it out.
We finished off with loads of pizza (thanks to Dave Allinson from Microsoft for providing this) and a play of Halo2 on the X-Box where Michael well and truly kicked my butt! Fortunately I have no misconceptions about how terrible I am at the game so losing wasn't a real problem though I must admit I let out a few cheers when I knocked him off a couple of times.
We won't be holding a meeting in December, there just aren't enough days left, so January is the next get together. Looks like Monday the 24th will be the date - mark it in your diary and RSVP your intention to attend to info@sbsusers.net. Keep an eye on www.sbsusers.net for location details too.
I'll see if I can get Peter from SDM to stop in Adelaide long enough to show us CRM in action. Just in case though please let me know if you've got any requests for what to look at.
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Dec 04 2004, 10:24 AM
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calvert