Seminars, training sessions, meetings, key notes etc.


The following table shows the events attended by Ton (starting October 1999, from bottom up). The Vancouver NT User Group meetings that were attended since Ton's membership in 1997 are not all included.

Date Subject / Title Content / Topics Location
April 2003 Project Management Breakthroughs Object driven project management, by Priority Management Vancouver
June 2002 Rational - Principles of Iterative Development, Vancouver Principles of iterative software development. Vancouver
June 2002 Implementing Rational Unified Process, Toronto Implementing, configuring and managing the tool set web site. Toronto
May 2002 Rational Requisite Pro Fundamentals, Vancouver Using the requirements tool and database. Vancouver
May 2002 Rational Requirements Management with Use Cases, Vancouver Principles of structures requirements gathering. Vancouver
May 2002 Rational Unified Process Fundamentals, Vancouver Rational 6 best industry Practices. Vancouver
26 October 2001 MS Project 2000 MS Project 2000. PBSC, Vancouver
24-Apr-2001 Project Management 4 week training. Fundamentals of Project management. Vancouver Community College
18-Jul-2000 VANTUG: E-Commerce (General meeting). An introduction to CommVault Systems "Galaxy" suite of management tools. Backup, restore and disaster recovery are critical in today's Windows NT space, particularly with the release of Windows 2000. CommVault Systems' Windows 2000 solution establishes a new industry standard for reliable, flexible and easy data protection of Windows 2000 Professional, Server and Advanced Server editions. Galaxy fully protects critical Windows 2000 components and objects like system state, directory mount points and links, single instance store, remote storage services and all file types.

Jonathan Cragle, a Product Marketing Specialist with Commvault Systems, was the presenter. Commvault Systems is a leading backup, restore and data recovery company, located in Oceanport, New Jersey.

BCIT Campus, Seymour Street, Vancouver
18-May-2000 TechNet: Under the Hood of Windows 2000 (1-4 PM). General Event Information
Announcing the TechNet National Spring Tour featuring the following professional development session called 'Under the Hood of Windows 2000' - Intermediate Level.
Get an in-depth understanding of what's running under the hood on your Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 desktop and server systems. Learn how to use a wealth of tools from the Support Tools, Resource Kit, and other Windows 2000 resources to explore the internals of process, thread, and interrupt activity.

You'll learn how to:

- Look at process details such as open file handles, I/O activity, DLL usage, and security
- Account for operating system vs. application CPU time (including interrupts)
- Identify each system process in the system process tree
- Map Windows NT services to the processes they are running in
- Match kernel-mode system thread activity to the driver or OS component that owns the thread
Robson Square Conference Centre, Vancouver
21-Mar-2000 VANTUG: E-Commerce (General meeting). Meeting Details: Bob Gerard, a Senior Technology Specialist with Microsoft Canada, will present an overview Microsoft's vision and strategy around the Business to Consumer E-Commerce initiative. Bob will highlight the core technologies that form the foundation of the Microsoft platform for this business opportunity. In addition, he'll discuss some of the best practices that Microsoft Consultants and engineers have learned from designing and implementing these solutions in customer situations. TrainingNet is the leading business-to-business e-commerce marketplace for skills training and professional education, representing more than 1,200 providers and hundreds of thousands of course-events annually in more than 25 soft skill and information technology categories. Through its partnership oriented strategy, the Company is making its marketplace ubiquitous where professionals already go for career development: corporate intranets; business and professional oriented Web sites; and TrainingNet's own public Web site. Amar Dhaliwal is Vice President of Product Development and CEO of TrainingNet Computer Services, Ltd. Amar will discuss how TrainingNet has achieved this position, it's business models, and how it has leveraged Microsoft's E-commerce products to date. He will also review what future technology and development plans TrainingNet has. Vancouver Film School, Vancouver
24-Feb-2000 Microsoft Windows 2000 National Launch Tour, presented by Direct Access, TechNet and MSDN (full day and evening - 08.30-18.30). DIRECT ACCESS: Exclusive, behind-the-scenes information and selling strategies for Microsoft Windows 2000. Topics for discussion will include:
- Enhanced web services via Internet Information Server version 5
- Creating a more reliable and available Windows 2000 network for your customer
- Automating the management of Windows 2000 through the use of the Windows Scripting Host
- Improved File and Print Services for Windows 2000 through the use of Disk Quotas and the MMC
- Terminal Services as a solution for legacy desktops and the use of Windows CE devices as Terminal Server Clients.
TECHNET: How to migrate your Windows NT 4.0 directory services to Windows 2000 Active Directory (Intermediate Level) and learn about:
- Difference between upgrading and restructuring your NT 4.0 directory services; Implications of upgrading and restructuring; Supported migration scenarios; How to use domain migration tools.
- Overview of Windows Script Host 2.0; How to use the new capabilities that ship Windows 2000 operating systems; How to use Windows Script Host to improve administration of your Windows network; How Windows Script Host can be used to remotely administer your Windows infrastructure.
Robson Square Conference Centre, Vancouver
23-Feb-2000 VanLug Connectivity 2000, with Rogers @Home and Telus about cable and ADSL connectivity differences, technology insights, advantages, sales and future options. A technical briefing. 
- status and future plans for high speed residential access
- security issues associated with high speed access
- Linux-based firewalls for the small office/home network
See also http://www.capcollege.bc.ca/webinfo/c2000.html for more info.  
Capilano College (Birch Theater), North Vancouver
10-Feb-2000 VANTUG: Exchange SIG. Installing Exchange 5.5 by Frank Savino. The installation of Exchange went pretty smoothly with just a couple planned and unplanned Glitches. But Hey, that's par for the course when installing Exchange. Don Parker's presentation on Outlook Web Access was also very well received and appreciated. Vancouver Film School, Vancouver
17-Jan-2000 VANTUG: Exchange 2000, Unity from ActiveVoice (General meeting). Unity(tm) from Active Voice Presented by Andree Koke-Flanagan and Pete Hansen, Active Voice Corporation "Active Voice's Unity(tm), a Microsoft(r) Windows NT(r)-based communications server, delivers unified messaging, voice mail, and fax functionality in a unified environment. Uniquely designed for convergence, Unity integrates with both traditional and IP telephone systems. Unity extends a company's investment in its communications infrastructure by joining the telephone system, LAN, Internet, and groupware applications into one dynamic system. With an embedded Exchange server, critical Microsoft BackOffice(r) components, and full NT services, Unity offers business critical performance and reliability." (http://www.activevoice.com) Coming in from their corporate offices in Seattle, WA for our program, Pete Hansen, MCSE engineer on for the 'Unity' product, will provide a live demonstration of the capabilities of this powerful unified messaging system for Exchange Server, including: Centralized management, universal inbox'-both voicemail and fax in the Outlook Inbox, web-based user configuration, and centralized message store on your company's production Exchange Server. Vancouver Film School, Vancouver
18-Nov-1999 VPNWorX Seminar (Lucent Technologies) about Virtual Private Networks Keynote speech: Steve Taylor, distinguished industry analyst and President of Distributed Networking Associates, discusses VPNs from the perspective of both the Enterprise and Service Provider. He talked about the realities of VPNs and VPNWorX overview. VPN tutorials and CD ROM: How to implement VPNs. Renaissance Hotel, Vancouver
16-Nov-1999 VANTUG: Exchange 2000, very first look (General meeting). In this session, Bob Gerard, Sr. Technology Specialist with Microsoft Canada, discussed and demonstrated the new capabilities that will be introduced with Microsoft Exchange 2000, a.k.a. Exchange "Platinum". We looked at the new features from both an administrative and end users perspective, and he showed how this release takes advantage of the services of Windows 2000 helps to make the overall use, management, and deployment of these systems much easier than before.

In addition, we had a look at some of the new application development capabilities inherent in the combination of Outlook 2000 and Exchange 2000, along with how the web integrates seamlessly into this framework. We saw  first hand how with Exchange 2000, building collaborative and messaging enabled applications is easier than ever.

Vancouver Film School, Vancouver
Oct-1999 VANTUG: Exchange SIG First look and training in Windows Digital Dashboard by Microsoft Canada. Will be released Q2 of 2000. Vancouver Film School
14-Oct-1999 Windows 2000 By Microsoft Canada and VANTUG: Windows 2000 user group tour. Product demos of Professional and Server by Windows development team from Microsoft head office in Redmond, WA. Canada Place, Vancouver
Oct-1999 Windows 2000 By Microsoft Canada: Deployment and installation of Microsoft Windows 2000 (release candidate 2). Business case presentation, what's new, building a Windows 2000 solution, troubleshooting (tips and tricks), preinstallation (process and tools). Robson Square Conference Centre, Vancouver

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