Hi Brian!

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In the September meeting, we got a surprise visit from Anthony Clendenen (MVP) from 1e. Anthony gave us a quick overview of the upcoming features soon to be released in Nomad 3.0. Thanks Anthony!

Then Sherry Kissinger (MVP) drove in from Milwaukee to give us all the info we could ever want to know about inventory, extending the inventory, mofs, etc. The links to her PPT are below, but as always, the Q&A is always the best part. This is really the best part of these local meetings and why you want to be there in person. Thanks again for coming out Sherry!

http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/skissinger/archive/2008/09/18/hardware-inventory-extensions-presentation.aspx
http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/skissinger/Extending%20ConfigMgr%20Inventory.pptx

Finally, Tim Benjamin from Microsoft gave us the bad news - his position at Microsoft now precludes him from buying the beer and pizza at future meetings. So that means we'll have to lean on future speakers for that if at all possible. When John Nelson and I spoke, we were able to get Wells to foot the bill for that one. Hopefully, we'll get others to do the same.

I think we decided to just have a round table discussion for the October meeting and R2 for November.

Transcender has a 40% off everything sale from 9/9-9/11. These are great practice tests because they offer so much detail on the subject. And links for more detail too.

In the August meeting, we elected officers for a one year term. Tim Benjamin withdrew his name because the demands of his new job at Microsoft are more pressing than ever. He did a great job as our first president and we hope to see him attend meetings when he can. He has a wealth of knowledge on many subjects and is fun to talk to.

So elected were:

• President - Joey Gleason
• Vice President - Manoj Shah
• Webmaster - Brian Mason
• Meeting and Event Manager - nobody (hey, someone volunteer and help!)
• Sergeant at Arms - John Nelson

Joey's PPT can be downloaded here. During the meeting, I mentioned a Microsoft scalability paper. This is the link. (I still maintain that it's best not to offload SQL to another box!).

Oh, and thanks Ron Crumbaker from myITforum for attending too!