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If you need to look up the blog of a speaker at a past event, this is where you might find it.  For upcoming events, see Queensland Developer Events.

Thu 21 Dec 06

Qld SQL Server User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 17:30 for 18:00
  (4th Thursday of each month)
• Jim Katsos speaking on “Monitoring your SQL Server Replication Topology”

Tue 19 Dec 06

Brisbane Infrastructure Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 17:30 for 18:00
• Special end of year session, Vista Media Centre and XBOX 360.

Wed 13 Dec 06

Brisbane SharePoint User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 12:00 - 13:30
• Kristian Kalsing on “Excel Services”.
• Angus Logan on “MOSS Migrations”.

Tue 12 Dec 06

Qld MSDN User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 17:30 for 18:00 - 19:30
  (Note changed date this month, usually 3rd Tuesday of each month)
• Joel Pobar, speaking on “Scaling to multicore: .NET concurrency best practices”

Mon 11 Dec 06

WARDY IT Monthly Community Dinner
Kafe Meze, 1B Browning Street, West End

• 18:30
  (2nd Monday of each month)
• An opportunity for IT professionals to get together in a social environment to share experiences and advice regarding the challenges that we tackle everyday.
• RSVP to peter @ wardyit.com by Friday 8 December.
• NB. you will be responsible for the cost of your own dining.

Tue 5 Dec 06

Brisbane Infrastructure Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 17:30 for 18:00
• Tamas Horvath (Microsoft Senior Technology Specialist for Systems Management), System Center Operations Manager 2007.

Fri 1 Dec 06

Qld VSTS User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 7:30 - 9:00
• The inaugural meeting of the new Queensland VSTS (Visual Studio Team System) User Group

Wed 29 Nov 06

Brisbane Biztalk Community
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 17:30 for 18:00
  (last Wednesday of each month)
• Nivesh Jaiswal (Data#3) on
  “Microsoft & the BPM (Business Process Management) Framework”.
• RSVP to Daniel Toomey

Tue 28 Nov 06

Qld MSDN User Group
QUT Lecture Theatre S403 - Note changed location this month.

• 17:30 for 18:00 - 19:30
  (Note changed date this month, usually 3rd Tuesday of each month)
• A brief introduction by Dr Ross Brown to The State of the Games Industry
• Zsolt Mathe, speaking on Introduction to XNA
• Jason Strayer, speaking on Xbox Live Arcade

Wed 22 Nov 06

Qld SQL Server User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 17:30 for 18:00
  (Note day change this month, usually 4th Thursday of each month)
• Mark Morton speaking on “SQL Server 2005 Cryptograph”

Mon 20 Nov 06

WARDY IT Monthly Community Dinner
Mecca Bah, 19-21/1000 Ann Street, Fortitude Valley

• 18:30
  (Note: a week later this month; usually 2nd Monday of each month)
• An opportunity for IT professionals to get together in a social environment to share experiences and advice regarding the challenges that we tackle everyday.
• RSVP to peter @ wardyit.com by Friday 17 November.
• NB. you will be responsible for the cost of your own dining.

Wed 8 Nov 06

Ready Summit’06
Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre

• 8:30 - 17:00
• IT Manager, IT Professional and Developer streams.
• Register at Microsoft website.

Fri 27 Oct 06

VSTS Tech Brekkie
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 7:30 - 9:00am
  (Each Friday in October)
• Charles “Chuck” Sterling on “Best Practices - Driving up quality using VSTS (Test & Build)”.
• Please register at VSTSTechBrekkie.com.

Thu 26 Oct 06

Qld SQL Server User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 17:30 for 18:00
  (4th Thursday of each month)
• Peter Ward speaking on “Engineering 101 for the SQL DBA”

Wed 25 Oct 06

Brisbane Biztalk Community
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 17:30 for 18:00
  (last Wednesday of each month)
• Marcus Rosen on “Orchestrations & Performance, an overview of the orchestration engine’s hydration/dehydration mechanism and forced persistence inside orchestrations”.
• RSVP to Daniel Toomey

Mon 23 Oct 06

Earning More Per Hour As a Developer - 1 Day Workshop
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 11:00 - 17:00
• Steve Herzberg and Adam Cogan dispel a number of myths about client interactions and what the client is really seeking from their IT provider.
• Price: $199 (+ GST) per person
• Please register at SSW website.

Fri 20 Oct 06

VSTS Tech Brekkie
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 7:30 - 9:00am
  (Each Friday in October)
• William Bartholomew on “End to end build automation using Team Build”.
• Please register at VSTSTechBrekkie.com.

Tue 17 Oct 06

Qld MSDN User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 17:30 for 18:00 - 19:30
  (3rd Tuesday of each month)
• Renato Haddad (MVP visiting from Brazil) on “ASP.NET Gridview Deep Dive“

Tue 17 Oct 06

Brisbane Infrastructure Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 8:30am for 9:30am
• Softricity, Application Deployment, Management, and Compatibility.
• Please register directly on the Microsoft Events web site.

Fri 13 Oct 06

VSTS Tech Brekkie
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 7:30 - 9:00am
  (Each Friday in October)
• Greg Low on Introduction to Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals.
• Please register at VSTSTechBrekkie.com.

Wed 11 Oct 06

Brisbane SharePoint User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 12:00 - 13:30
• “TBA”.

Mon 9 Oct 06

WARDY IT Monthly Community Dinner
Cavill’s Norman Hotel, 102 Ipswich Road, Woolloongabba

• 18:30
• An opportunity for IT professionals to get together in a social environment to share experiences and advice regarding the challenges that we tackle everyday.
• RSVP to peter @ wardyit.com by Friday 6 October.
• NB. you will be responsible for the cost of your own dining.

Sat 7 - Sun 8 Oct 06

SQL Down Under Code Camp
Wal Fife Theatre, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga

• A SQL Server community driven event which allows people with interests across the SQL Server and Data Access platform to come together in one location and see speakers (including many expert presenters) present on a wide range of developer topics.
• Free to attend.
• Run in conjunction with Charles Sturt University and PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server).
• To Register: email greg.low @ readify.net.

Fri 6 Oct 06

VSTS Tech Brekkie
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 7:30 - 9:00am
  (Each Friday in October)
• Anthony Borton on Best Practices - Driving up quality using VSTS.
• Please register at VSTSTechBrekkie.com.

Thu 5 Oct 06

Brisbane Infrastructure Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 17:30 for 18:00
  Note Day Change this month (usually 1st Tuesday of each month)
• Alpesh Nakar, Education Queensland on MOM - Features, Pitfalls and Notes from the Field.
• Craig Gilmour, Unify Solutions on Identity Management and Provisioning with MIIS.
• Friends and colleagues are welcome.

Thu 28 Sep 06

Qld SQL Server User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 17:30 for 18:00
  (4th Thursday of each month)
• Grant Paisley speaking on “BI (Business Intelligence) and Sharepoint integration”

Wed 27 Sep 06

Brisbane Biztalk Community
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 17:30 for 18:00
  (last Wednesday of each month)
• Jey Srikantha from SourceCode (www.k2workflow.com) will be showing how the latest product offerings of K2.NET (including the upcoming release, code named BlackPearl) is making implementing and integrating workflow solutions exciting for .NET. There will be a demo of Biztalk and K2 as well.
• Alok Singh from SpecTeck will demonstrate SharePoint Services integration with BizTalk using BizTalk 2006, InfoPath, Office 2003 and Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO).
• RSVP to Daniel Toomey

Wed 20 Sep 06

Brisbane SharePoint User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 12:00 - 13:30
• Note: Date change this month
• “Groove 2007 Overview”.
• “SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management”.

Tue 19 Sep 06

Qld MSDN User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 17:30 for 18:00 - 19:30
  (3rd Tuesday of each month)
• Charles Sterling on “Intro to WinFX (.NET 3)”

Mon 11 Sep 06

WARDY IT Monthly Community Dinner
Thai Mali, 82 Bennetts Road, Camp Hill

• 18:30
• An opportunity for IT professionals to get together in a social environment to share experiences and advice regarding the challenges that we tackle everyday.
• RSVP to peter @ wardyit.com by Friday 8 September.
• NB. you will be responsible for the cost of your own dining.

Wed 30 Aug 06

Gold Coast .NET SIG
Level 2 Multimedia Building (G23), Theater 2.07A,
Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus

• 18:00
• Shea Strickland & Anthony Borton on “A day in the life of a VSTS Developer”

Tue 22-Fri 25 Aug 06

Tech.Ed 2006
Darling Harbour, Sydney

• Registration now open
• Michael Kleef is posting track plans as they evolve.

Tue 15 Aug 06

Qld MSDN User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 17:30 for 18:00 - 19:30
  (3rd Tuesday of each month)
• Eric Deily (Microsoft, US) on “IIS7 for Developers”

Thu 27 Jul 06

Qld SQL Server User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 17:30 for 18:00
  (4th Thursday of each month)
• Greg Low speaking on “Intro to Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals (Data Dude)”

Tue 18 Jul 06

Qld MSDN User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 17:30 for 18:00 - 19:30
  (3rd Tuesday of each month)
• Anthony Borton on “Editing TFS project templates”
• Charles Sterling on “Intro to WinFX (.NET 3) Part 1″

Mon 10 Jul 06

WARDY IT Monthly Community Dinner
Deery’s Restaurant at the Story Bridge Hotel, 200 Main Street, Kangaroo Point

• 18:30
• An opportunity for IT professionals to get together in a social environment to share experiences and advice regarding the challenges that we tackle everyday.
• RSVP to peter @ wardyit.com by Friday 7 July.
• NB. you will be responsible for the cost of your own dining.

Tue 4 Jul 06

Brisbane Infrastructure Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 17:30 for 18:00
  (1st Tuesday of each month)
• Kyle Rosenthal and Paul Woods on Deploying and working with Vista and Office 2007.

Wed 28 Jun 06

Brisbane Biztalk Community
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 17:30 for 18:00
  (last Wednesday of each month)
• Paul Woods, Microsoft, on the BizTalk Best Practices Analyser and what to expect from BizTalk Server 2006 R2.
• Daniel Toomey, will give a brief project synopsis of how the QLD Dept of Justice uses BizTalk to support a critical interface with Queensland Police.
• RSVP to Daniel Toomey

Thu 22 Jun 06

Qld SQL Server User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 17:30 for 18:00
  (4th Thursday of each month)
• Mark Morton speaking on “SQL Server Express and Advanced Services including Reporting”

Tue 20 Jun 06

Qld MSDN User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 17:30 for 18:00 - 19:30
  (3rd Tuesday of each month)
• Steve Rodgers on “Introduction to Generics and Anonymous Methods”

Wed 14 Jun 06

Brisbane SharePoint User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 12:00 - 13:30
• “Workflow and other developer advancements in Sharepoint 2007 ”.

Tue 13 Jun 06

WARDY IT Monthly Community Dinner
Punjabi Palace Indian Restaurant, 135 Melbourne Street, West End

• 18:30
• An opportunity for IT professionals to get together in a social environment to share experiences and advice regarding the challenges that we tackle everyday.
• RSVP to peter @ wardyit.com by Friday 9 June.
• NB. you will be responsible for the cost of your own dining.

Tue 6 Jun 06

Brisbane Infrastructure Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 17:30 for 18:00
  (1st Tuesday of each month)
• Peter Fitzsimon (Microsoft) will briefly present an update on Microsoft’s Enterprise Roadmap.
• Angus Logan, Microsoft’s National Technology Specialist for Portals, will present SharePoint 12.
• Angus will cover Collaboration, Portal, Search, ECM and Business Process; the new Office User Interface: Outlook, Word, PowerPoint; Excel Services, Form Services, Search; Content Management and Office Integration.
• Friends and colleagues are welcome.

Wed 31 May 06

Brisbane Biztalk Community
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 17:30 for 18:00
• On-the-fly Configuration with the BizTalk Rules Engine: Local BizTalk consultant Mark Daunt
• RSVP to Daniel Toomey

Thu 25 May 06

Qld SQL Server User Group
n/a

• Sorry Folks, our speaker for this month has had to cancel. Meeting deferred till next month.
• See you next month.

Mon 22 May 06

Brisbane Infrastructure Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 16:30 for 17:00 (earlier than usual)
• Jesper Johansson, Senior Security Strategist in Microsoft’s Security Technology Unit, speaking on Debunking Security Myths.
• Update: See Jesper’s Debunking Myths session recorded at TechEd 2005 and Jesper’s other sessions.

Tue 16 May 06

Qld MSDN User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 17:30 for 18:00 - 19:30
• Adam Cogan on “Making VSTS integrate into your current systems”

Mon 15 May 06

WARDY IT Monthly Community Dinner
Ahmets Turkish restaurant, Shop 10/164 Grey Street, South Bank

• 18:30
• An opportunity for IT professionals to get together in a social environment to share experiences and advice regarding the challenges that we tackle everyday.
• RSVP to peter @ wardyit.com by Friday 12 May.
• NB. you will be responsible for the cost of your own dining.

Wed 10 May 06

Brisbane SharePoint User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 12:00 - 13:30
• “Meridio Document Management & SharePoint” presented by Desmond Russell.
• James Milne presenting on “Deployment of a SharePoint Solution”.

Tue 2 May 06

Brisbane Infrastructure Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 17:30 for 18:00
• Danny Rowe, Systems Engineer from Citrix Systems presenting Security and Control of Application Access over the Internet.
• Eric Smith, Mobility Solution Architect and mobility guru from Telstra presenting Connectivity options and futures with the EVDO/3G network.

Thu 27 Apr 06

Qld SQL Server User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 17:30 for 18:00
• Peter Ward speaking on “SMO - SQL Management Object”

Sun 23-Mon 24 Apr 06 (just before Anzac Day)

Code Camp Oz
Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga

• A .NET developer community driven event. Two intense days of sessions on current development topics featuring the latest and up-coming development tools.
• It is free to attend.
• I was there!

Wed 19 Apr 06

Brisbane Biztalk Community
Microsoft Brisbane office

• 17:30 for 18:00
• Creating Custom BizTalk Adapters: Mike Lipscombe (a senior BizTalk trainer/consultant from Sydney)
• RSVP to Daniel Toomey

Tue 18 Apr 06

Qld MSDN User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 17:30 for 18:00 - 19:30
• Tatham Oddie on “ASP.NET/Atlas/Virtual Earth”

Wed 12 Apr 06

Brisbane SharePoint User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 12:00 - 13:30
• Angus Logan (Microsoft) on “The next version of SharePoint”.

Tue 4 Apr 06

Brisbane Infrastructure Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 17:30 for 18:00 (lifts lock off at 18:00)
• Usergroup ChalkTalk Getting what you want from a UserGroup.
• Chat about creating or maintaining test lab environments with the Windows WSSRA-VE framework

Tue 4 Apr 06

Gold Coast .Net SIG
Bond Uni, Lecture Theater 2

• 18:00
• Jeff Beehler on “Team Foundation Server Overview”

Tue 28 Mar 06

Qld MSDN User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 17:30 for 18:00 - 19:30
• Jeff Beehler on “TFS & VSTS: Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team System”
• Note later week this month. Usually 3rd Tuesday of each month.

Thu 23 Mar 06

Qld SQL Server User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

• 17:45 for 18:00
• David Lean - a good look at the new Report Builder tool
• David is a technical specialist at Microsoft in Sydney, with considerable SQL Server experience.
• Finish around 19:30

Thu 23 Mar 06

Brisbane Biztalk Community
Microsoft Brisbane office

• 17:30 for 18:00
• Real-Life Project Experience: BrizTalk members Chris Hampson (Software Engineer from Dimension Data), Nivesh Jaiswal (Solution Architect from Data#3) and Amerjeet Sihota (Technical Specialist from Technology One) will be talking about their projects, the challenges they faced, how they overcame them, and their favourite features of BizTalk!
• RSVP to Daniel Toomey

Wed 8 Mar 06

Brisbane SharePoint User’s Group
Microsoft Brisbane office

• 12:00 - 13:30
• Mike Fitzsimon on “Using Impersonation and Single Sign-On to access corporate data from within a custom SharePoint web part”.
• PowerPoint and sample code now available for download

Tue 7 Mar 06

Brisbane Infrastructure Group
Microsoft Brisbane office

• 17:00 pizza for 17:30 start, finish before 20:30
• An overview and feature set of the upcoming Exchange 12 presented by Lee Hicken (Technology Specialist from Microsoft Sydney).
• Note Early Start this month as Lee has to catch a flight back to Sydney afterwards.

Wed 1 Mar 06

Microsoft Security Interchange
Queensland Rugby Club, Murrayfield Room, Clyde Road, Herston

• 18:00 for 18:15
• An informal evening event that emphasizes networking and interaction with a panel of leading local and international Security experts.
• Don’t show up at Microsoft for this one. It’s at Ballymore.

Tue 21 Feb 06

Qld MSDN User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office

• 17:00 for 17:30 Start
• Craig McMurtry on “WCF: Windows Communication Foundation”
• Paul Woods on “BizTalk 2006″
• Note the early start this month because Craig has to get away to catch a plane to Sydney where he is speaking at the Patterns & Practices Summit.

Thu 9 Feb 06

Qld SQL Server User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office

• 17:30 for 18:00
• Greg Low speaking on “Stored Procedure Recompiles in SQL Server 2005 (and avoiding them)”
• Note the special date this month. Usually the 4th Thursday of each month.

Wed 8 Feb 06

Brisbane SharePoint User’s Group
Microsoft Brisbane office

• 12:00 - 13:30
• Kristian Kalsing on “Creating SharePoint Site Definitions”.
• James Milne on “SharePoint Customisation using Front Page”.