The Active Directory User Group

…has been created here in the UK.  I wanted to call this blog post “The Very Useful User Group” as I think that this group will fundamentally help people with their AD challenges in their environments.

So many people use AD, but use only about 10% of it’s functionality – which means products like Exchange 2007 can’t take full advantage of it.  Perhaps you aren’t aware of some of the features you can implement?  perhaps you’re not too comfortable with Group Policy, FSMO roles or Replication.  Perhaps it “just works as it is” and you don’t want to mess around with things.

But I think that having a well constructed AD forest is key to optimising your infrastructure and moving towards a more Dynamic environment instead of the Basic Environment that most of us work in at the moment.

The Very knowledgeable Mark has done a great job in creating this user group and I look forward to the first ADUG meeting and watching the forum threads grow.  So take the time to register if you’re interested in Active Directory, contribute if you’re an AD expert, or ask that pesky question you’ve wanted to know the answer to.

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There’s quite a lot of topics covered at Remix if you’re a web designer or Developer.  Here are some of the session topics:

 Silverlight 2 – What this rich interactive technology is and what it can deliver

· Surface – Departing from Graphical User Interface to Natural User Interface and how this will effect creative UX and development

· ADO.NET Data Services – Enable your applications to expose data as a RESTful service, easily consumed by web clients

· Internet Explorer 8 – What every web developer needs to know about its enhancements, including AJAX, CSS, DOM, scripting and new built-in tools support

· The Beauty and the Geek – Looking at Designer and Developer work flows

· Digital Advertising - Digital creativity and the evolution of online advertising now and in the future

· Mobile UX – Creating compelling user interaction on the small screen

And with a speaker list including:

· Scott Guthrie has recently been driving the development of Silverlight – the cross browser, cross platform plug-in for delivering next generation media experiences and rich internet applications for the web

· Bill Buxton one of the world’s leading user interaction researchers and authors – and someone who has been awarded for Lifetime Achievement by ACM SIGCHI for fundamental contributions to the field of Computer Human Interaction

· Brendan Dawes who has helped forge the way we look at brands like Diesel, BBC, Channel 4, Disney, Benetton, Kellogg’s and Coca-Cola

· Sara Ford the program manager for CodePlex, Microsoft’s open source project hosting site

· And many more… keep checking www.microsoft.com/uk/remix08 for updates – or follow them on Twitter http://twitter.com/remixuk08

 

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