With busy schedules and conflicts, it is unfortunate that we won’t be able to hold User Group meeting this month.
We will be back online with June meeting and the event will be published in coming weeks so you can plan ahead.
Thanks for your understanding.
Event Date: April 23, 2013
Speaker: Bhargav Shukla
Spring weather is upon us and it’s easy to lose track of time enjoying it. While we had to delay this month’s meeting for a week, I assure you it was due to accomodate rigorous travel schedule and not the good weather we had recently! 
With introduction on Exchange and Lync 2013, there are enhancements that help customers get most out of their load balancing solutions while reducing overall complexities.
Bhargav Shukla will present “Load balancing Exchange and Lync 2013 – What’s new, what has changed”. The topic provides deep insight into load balancing for Exchange and Lync 2013 and how it is different from previous versions of Exchange and Lync.
We will, be meeting at Microsoft’s Malvern office (45 Liberty Blvd, Malvern, PA 19355). The Microsoft office is located on second floor. When you arrive, please inform security that you are attending the Exchange User Group event and they will grant you access to the building.
You can also call Bhargav’s cell (570) 709-9046 or Chad’s cell (610) 973-7123 to gain access if needed or you have any questions.
Looking forward to your valued attendance.
Event Date: March 19, 2013 Speaker: Brian Day
We are very happy to host our guest speaker – Brian Day.
Brian Day is a Program Manager on the Exchange Customer Adoption Team within the Exchange Server product group. Brian spends his time helping educate internal Microsoft resources, speaking at internal/external events, dealing with customer escalations at the PG level, and aids in the evolution of the product. If you haven’t figured our common theme yet, before joining Exchange Team, Brian was a PFE! Don’t we love our PFE friends?
Brian will present “Exchange 2013 Coexistence and Migrations with Load Balancing other helpful Tips”
Have you been wondering what the real deal is on how to migrate from Exchange Server 2007/2010 to Exchange Server 2013 and how to coexist the versions with each other until the migration is complete? Are you curious about the changes in namespace planning and load balancing requirements in Exchange Server 2013 from previous versions? We’ll be hearing directly from the Exchange PG on these topics and other helpful tips you may find useful when you are getting ready to upgrade your environment to Exchange Server 2013.
We will, be meeting at Microsoft’s Malvern office (45 Liberty Blvd, Malvern, PA 19355). The Microsoft office is located on second floor. When you arrive, please inform security that you are attending the Exchange User Group event and they will grant you access to the building.
You can also call Bhargav’s cell (570) 709-9046 or Chad’s cell (610) 973-7123 to gain access if needed or you have any questions.
Looking forward to your valued attendance.
I want to thank everyone for coming out last night as we had a great turnout. Hopefully everyone got something out of our discussions on Exchange 2010 DAGs. During our discussions we talked about some scripts, iOS 6.1 Issues, and Exchange updates and I said I would follow up with links to these locations.
User Profile Analysis – http://blogs.technet.com/b/neiljohn/archive/2011/08/09/user-profile-analysis-for-exchange-server-2010.aspx
iOS 6.1 Exchange Issues – http://blogs.technet.com/b/rischwen/archive/2013/02/12/ios-6-1-causing-problems-with-exchange.aspx
Exchange Updates – http://blogs.technet.com/b/rischwen/archive/2013/02/13/exchange-2010-sp3-sp2-ru6-and-exchange-2007-sp3-ru10-released.aspx
Again thanks for coming out and I look forward to seeing everyone next month which will include a Guest Speaker which should be announced soon!
Event Date: February 12, 2013 Speaker: Richard Schwendiman
Building on some of Exchange 2013 sessions we’ve had around CAS we would like focus some on the Mailbox Role. Richard will be presenting on Exchange 2013 DAG deep dive. This will include discussions around new features, best practices, troubleshooting, and deployment. As always there will also be open discussions so everyone is encouraged to bring questions around this topic.
We will, be meeting at Microsoft’s Malvern office (45 Liberty Blvd, Malvern, PA 19355). The Microsoft office is located on second floor. When you arrive, please inform security that you are attending the Exchange User Group event and they will grant you access to the building.
You can also call Bhargav’s cell (570) 709-9046 or Chad’s cell (610) 973-7123 to gain access if needed or you have any questions.
Looking forward to your valued attendance.
Event Date: January 15, 2012 Speaker: Chad Manzer
This month We will have an open whiteboard discussions on Exchange and Lync. Bring your questions! I do plan showing some Direct SIP configurations with Asterisk for Lync 2010 and migrating to Lync 2013.
Event Date: December 18, 2012 Speaker: Doug Deitterick
Lync 2013 was released along with other Office wave 15 products and just went GA. We decided to invite an authority when it comes to Lync from our beloved PFE community – Doug Deitterick.
Doug is one of the very few who holds prestigious MCM for both OCS 2007 R2 and Lync Server 2010. Having gone through Lync MCM myself, let me tell you it’s no easy achievement. And having both needs some courage.
Doug has been in IT for about 12 years and with Microsoft for 5. When not helping large enterprise deployments, he works on projects such as Lync/OCS templates for PAL, Archiving reports for OCS 2007 R2 and Lync Server 2010, sharing his knowledge with community via his blog and delivering Premier webcasts to Microsoft’s Premier customers.
Doug will be presenting What’s new in Lync 2013 and you will have chance to discuss your Lync/OCS questions with him and other attendees.
We will, be meeting at Microsoft’s Malvern office (45 Liberty Blvd, Malvern, PA 19355). The Microsoft office is located on second floor. When you arrive, please inform security that you are attending the Exchange User Group event and they will grant you access to the building.
You can also call Bhargav’s cell (570) 709-9046 or Chad’s cell (610) 973-7123 to gain access if needed or you have any questions.
Looking forward to your valued attendance.
Event Date: November 20, 2012 Speaker: Richard Schwendiman Attachments: Exchange 2013 CAS
Building on great Exchange 2013 information that Ross Smith IV presented at our October meeting, we have decided to continue the momentum. Richard will be presenting Exchange 2013 CAS deep dive. While Richard is new to the group, he is no stranger to Exchange platform and being a Microsoft PFE, he brings wealth of information that we all can benefit from.
We will, be meeting at Microsoft’s Malvern office (45 Liberty Blvd, Malvern, PA 19355). The Microsoft office is located on second floor. When you arrive, please inform security that you are attending the Exchange User Group event and they will grant you access to the building.
Using new sign-up system, if you receive any errors on the sign-up form, feel free to ignore it and show up anyway. It is going to be a great meeting and you don’t want to miss Richard’s presentation.
You can also call Bhargav’s cell (570) 709-9046 or Chad’s cell (610) 973-7123 to gain access if needed or you have any questions.
Looking forward to your valued attendance.
With recent changes and renewed momentum around User Group announcement we made in October, it was only matter of time before we see more involvement from members.
I am happy to announce Richard Schwendiman as a new contributor to our website. Richard has been working in IT industry for more than 13 years focusing on wide array of technologies. He represents Microsoft Premier as a dedicated PFE serving enterprise customers focusing on Unified Communications platform (Exchange and Lync).
Richard has offered to share his knowledge with community via his contributions on the website as well as presenting future topics at user group meetings.
Please join me in welcoming Richard. We’re looking forward to his valued participation and contribution.
UPDATE: KEMP Technologies has posted video recording of webinar which can be accessed here: http://www.kemptechnologies.com/KEMP-lync-modality-webinar/
Slide Deck is available here:KEMP Lync Webinar
Kemp Technologies is hosting a complimentary webinar on November 8 where we will be discussing Load Balancing for Lync 2010 and 2013. I have included details about webinar below. You can signup using provided link below. Hope to see you there!
Learn about Load Balancing Microsoft Lync including real world examples from our panel of Lync experts:
In this complimentary 45 minute Webinar, you will discover:
