4PM Thursday 31 October 2013
Hyper-V and Essentials for Small Business
HyperV and Windows Essentials 2012 Evening Workshop
Location
Banksia Wattle Room, Parkview Hotel 562 St Kilda Road Melbourne
See: Google map
Registration Fees
Members: $25
Non-members: $65
Includes dinner - set menu of 4 choices, including 1 drink
Please use PayPal to pay fee when registering.
Menus will be circulated and collected during Session 1 (see Agenda below) to speed up the dinner service.
Got a friend or associate working in IT for SMB? Invite your colleagues to come along too.
Interstate members welcome to attend.
Parkview discount rate - Room $179 per night room only.
Parking $12 per day.
Ample free parking in St Kilda Rd and Roy St after 6PM.
Presented by Boon Tee, SBS-MVP
The largest diversity in the Australian Business sector is found in the micro and small business sector. In businesses with 1-20 employees, business owners have their hands full contending with their competitors, fully focused on staying that one step ahead.
This event explores the challenges faced in providing IT services to this business sector, where the loss of a PC could be disastrous, and a crippled home ADSL link could shut down a business for the day.
The impending releases of Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V and Essentials bring a host of fresh new features to the world of virtualisation for the small business. This session will examine these new features and look at how these new features can be used in the small business scenario. What best practices, tips and trick can be implemented to provide maximum productivity and stability to the small business IT network?
Agenda
4:00pm - 6:00pm - Session 1
Business Case for Virtualisation and Essentials
- Why or Why not virtualise?
- On Premises vs Cloud Solutions?
- Resource Requirements
What’s new in Windows Server 2012 R2
- Windows Server 2012 R2
- Hyper-V 2012 R2 Features
- Essentials 2012 R2 Features
6:00pm – 7:00pm – Dinner
7:00pm - 9:00pm - Session 2
Installation Tips, Tricks and Gotchas
Operations and Features (Tips and Tricks)
- Business Continuity (Live Migration, Replica)
- Storage Spaces
- Tools of the Trade
Boon Tee - A Short Biography
Boon has been working with computers and networks for over 40 years. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional and Microsoft Small Business Specialist and has a degree in Computer Science from California State University (Fresno) with high honours, a MBA (University of South Australia) and an MA in Education (Flinders University). He has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (Windows Server for Small and Medium Business) for his contributions to Microsoft Small Business Server for the past 4 years. His experience covers support of larger networks from 100-500 computers down to repairs and upgrades of individual workstations and smaller networks of less than 10 computers. He has served as IT consultant for several organisations. He has extensive working knowledge of Microsoft Windows networks, including all versions of Microsoft Windows. Boon has also been active in hands on staff development and training for various organizations. He has taught part time at the Flinders University of South Australia, lecturing on computer and multimedia literacy. He has authored a book, “An Administrator’s Guide to Windows Server 2012 Essentials” which was released in 2013.
Boon operates PowerBiz Solutions, a computer technology solutions and managed services provider offering products and services to cater for small to medium sized businesses. He is currently Vice President of SMBiT Professionals Adelaide.
Social Networking
Stay a while and have a drink and a chat with your mates.