UK User Group Events in May

So May looks like a great month for some of the user groups I regularly attend.

First up we have the VMware user group in London on Thursday May 14th. This is an excellent event for VMware administrators to attend and has a great mix of vendor and community contributions. In particular this time check out Alan Renouf’s pre-show PowerShell workshop. This is before the usual start time and should be great if you are new to PowerShell or already using the VI Toolkit.

Sign up details are here.

Next up is the PowerShell user group at Microsoft in Reading on Tuesday 19th May. This time we have a real treat in store, PowerShell MVP Dmitry Sotnikov from Quest will be stopping by on his whistle stop tour of the UK to tell us about PowerGUI and the AD cmdlets, in particular recent updates. This was a great event when he presented for us last year and is a real opportunity if you use either of these products to get your questions answered or put forward any suggestions for improvements. You also get to meet a really cool guy and see if he manages to blue screen his machine again during a PowerShell demo by stopping all the services, having forgot to use the ‘whatif’ paramter! (I told him I’d get him back for making fun of me when I interviewed him for the Get-Scripting podcast)

Sign up details are here. You need to contact Richard if you wish to attend in person.

Finally on Thursday 28th May the Windows Server and Vista Squad user groups join the Active Directory user group for a joint Windows 7 event. Full content is yet to be confirmed, but that’s the first Windows 7 event I’ve heard of in this country.

Full details here.

Hope to see you at one of these events.