April 2011 Meeting

This will be THE meeting of the year! Don't miss it!

Our next MN System Center User Group meeting will be Friday, April 22nd from 11am - 2pm at Microsoft's Bloomington HQ.

We're proud to announce that Wally Mead, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft will be our speaker! Odds are you already know who Wally is from reading his answers in the TechNet forums, watching a webcast, seeing him at a past session at MMS or seeing him recently in the labs there. He's signed up to do a couple dozen labs at MMS this year and if that isnt enough, he wrote them all too.

You might also have seen the "Where's Wally" buttons we handed out at MMS a couple years ago. The idea for that came from my fellow MVP, Steve Bobosky (pictured giving Wally one of the buttons). We MVPs love Wally and noticed that Microsoft had him hidden away at all the MMS labs. We just spent another week with him up in Redmond where all we did was talk about CM12. He knows it inside out and since our meeting is post-MMS, he'll be able to talk about almost every facet with no restrictions from marketing.

And we'll have various swag items, one of which will be a copy of Windows 7 Pro

Jarvis says that CDW can sponsor this meeting (food and drink), so thanks again, Jarvis!

As always, to help figure out the food and drink count, we ask that you register for the event at ClickToAttend

Wally Mead
Senior Program Manager

Wally has been with Microsoft since 1992, working with SMS and Configuration Manager since SMS 1.0. He has developed and delivered training on all versions of SMS and Configuration Manager. Currently he works in the Configuration Manager product group as a community lead, working with Configuration Manager MVPs and TAP customers.