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November 20

An exciting 2009 planned for SPUGJax

We have lined up some exciting enhancements to the UG and presenters for 2009 and wanted to share them with you.  We have committments to present  at various times from:
 
  • Steve Kaczmarek "Steve K." from Microsoft.  He heads the documentation team for SCCM other SC applications.  He will appear in person so bring your Administrator's Guide's and your Sharpies!  And of course, bring your feedback on product documentation that he can take back to Redmond.
  • Acresso Software (formerly Installshield) will talk about software packaging and version control with their products including Admin Studio.
  • Intel would like to give a 1-day seminar with Microsoft on vPro and the integration with SCCM 2007 R2.  For those that are not aware of vPro it is management functionality built into the CPU of computers.  It has been shipping for a while.  Features include remote control, remote BIOS flash (to a collection in CM!) and other management tools.  We'll plan this outside of the usual meeting and with lots of notice.
  • Microsoft Product Teams have offered to talk about features in SCCM 2007 R2, including Asset Intelligence 2.5, vPro integration, etc.  I am sure we can talk them into sharing information about the other System Center products as well.
 And even more...
 
We'll move the meetings to lunchtime, for 1.5 hours.  We hear from a lot of interested people that evenings are difficult due to family and other committments.
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4th Quarter 2008 Meeting Notes

Our 4th Quarter 2008 meeting was held at New Horizons.  Kevin Colby from SecureVantage talked about his clients' experiences with security and the solutions that SecureVantage provides.
 
We welcomed some new faces and talked about managing computers in a forestry company with Configuration Manager and swapped war stories.  We also discussed some pitfalls of a SCCM installation and the migration from SMS 2003 to SCCM 2007.  Make sure your Push Installation method is deselected!
 
We're very grateful to New Horizons for the space, as always, and to SecureVantage for the abundant food from Jason'd Deli.
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Announcing the co-sponsor of the inaugural meeting...

6/2/2008
 
SPUGJax is pleased to announce New Horizons Learning Center has agreed to co-sponsor the inaugural meeting.  We will hold the meeting at their facility off Belfort Road.  They have generously agreed to provide multimedia services and internet connectivity for the presenter.  We are very grateful and hope to have a long relationship with New Horizons.
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SPUGJax announces presenter for inaugural meeting

6/2/2008
 
SPUGJax is proud to announce the presenter and co-sponsor of our inaugural meeting, 1E, Inc.  They will present information about their products Nightwatchman, Shopping and others.
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Welcome to the SystemCenter Professionals User Group of Jacksonville.

5/29/2008
 
The SystemCenter Professionals User Group of Jacksonville is an independent PUG providing a forum for sharing knowledge among IT pros that work within the Microsoft SystemCenter ecosystem. 
 
Associated products include third-party offerings that support and enhance the SystemCenter applications such as Citrix and VMWare as well as training centers and integrators.
 
At the time of the founding of SPUGJAX Microsoft Corporation, Citrix Inc., New Horizons Training Center and VMWare, Inc. have offered to participate.  More vendors are lining up.
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