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CityLight Prayer Breakfast 2011
Event on 2012-03-01 07:00:00
The Faith Based Committee of the South Carolina Coalition for the Children of Military Families invites you to join us in prayer for the Children of Military families.

Speaker James Emerson Smith, Jr.

James is a 44-year-old Columbia native, married to Kirkland T. Smith of Mt. Pleasant, SC. They have three sons, James “Emerson” Smith III, age 18, Thomas Bridges Smith, age 15, Paul Bradford Smith age 10, and a daughter Shannon Elizabeth Smith age 9.

James attended the University of South Carolina and obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science in 1990, and then went on to obtain his Juris Doctor in 1995. After being admitted to the Bars of South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia, James began his legal career as an Associate at the firm of NELSON, MULLINS, RILEY & SCARBOROUGH in September 1995. In November of 1996, James began a solo practice and currently is the sole shareholder of his four attorney firm, JAMES E. SMITH, JR., P.A. In 1997, he was awarded the Outstanding Young Alumni Award from the University of South Carolina, in 2010 he was awarded the Distinguished Service Award from the University of South Carolina College of Arts and Sciences and in 1999 he was named the South Carolina Bar’s Young Lawyer of the Year. In his first ten years of practice, James was rated by his peers through Martindale-Hubble as “AV,” the highest awarded.

James is also President and CEO of The Congaree Group of Columbia, LLC d/b/a The Congaree Group (TCG), a Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB). James started TCG January 2011 to provide medical and pharmaceutical supplies, telehealth and telemedicine equipment and services to hospitals and medical facilities.

James was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in November 1996. In his first year of service he was elected to the position of Assistant Minority House Leader. James served in the position for three years before becoming the Chief Minority Whip. James was then elected House Minority Leader and served from 2002 until 2005. James was re-elected to the House in November of 2010 and currently serves as 1st Vice-Chairman of the Judiciary Committee.

While maintaining his own private law practice, small business and being a member of the South Carolina House, James also serves in our Armed Forces. After 911 and serving for eight (8) years as a JAG officer in South Carolina Army National Guard, James resigned the re-enlisted to pursue a commission as an Infantry Officer. James is currently a Captain and Executive Officer of 1-118th Combined Arms Battalion. James served in support of Operation Enduring Freedom Afghanistan with the 218th Infantry Brigade where he was awarded the Combat Infantryman’s Badge, The Bronze Star and The Purple Heart.

James has served on various non-profit boards and has volunteered with numerous civic groups including service as a Fellow – Liberty Fellowship, affiliated with the Aspen Global Leadership Initiative, Chair for the Public Policy Committee of the United Ways’ Success By 6 initiative, SC First Steps, Board Member, Prevent Child Abuse, SC, Board Member and is currently serving as a Board Member of the Alston Wilkes Society and Congaree River keeper. James and his family are members of the Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Columbia, SC and also attend Church of the Apostles in Columbia, SC.

CityLight Worldwide

Over the last 10 years, we have partnered with organizations serving the homeless, single moms, drug addicts, Katrina victims, pregnant teens, dropouts, the incarcerated, gang members, refugees, victims of domestic abuse, legal / illegal aliens and many others.

CityLight is committed to supporting education and development of job skills; helping people meet food, clothing and shelter needs; working with children, families and the elderly; and providing support for health and recovery.
Redfern II is the Executive Director.

We organize 13 members ‘ Prayer and Care Teams to respond to the Local needs of people around the world. We are building the Village of Hope in Uganda for widows and providing medical care in India for the Poor. Our prayer groups are living the two Great Commandments.

There is no charge for the Breakfast!

www.CityLight.org

at Brookland Banquet and Conference Center
1064 Sunset Blvd.
Columbia, United States

FREE Technology Day – March 10 – Microsoft Chevy Chase, MD
Event on 2012-03-10 08:00:00

DMVMUG (District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia Management User Group) is excited to announce an upcoming FREE Event! This informative event includes 3 session tracks (private cloud solutions, system center and os deployment) and hands on labs! Seating is limited AND Parking is FREE

8:00am – 8:50am Breakfast/Sponsors/Vendors

9:00am – 9:50am
KEYNOTE address with David Linthicum
Internationally recognized industry expert and thought leader in the world of cloud computing, and the author and co-author of 15 books on computing, including the bestselling Enterprise Application Integration, and his latest book Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence. Dave keynotes at many leading technology conferences on cloud computing, SOA, Web 2.0, and enterprise architecture, and has appeared on a number of TV and radio shows as a computing expert. He is a blogger for InfoWorld, Intelligent Enterprise, and eBizq.net, and Forbes covering cloud computing topics, as well as the guest host for This Week in Cloud Computing, as well as his own podcast The Cloud Computing Podcast.

Dave's industry experience includes tenure as CTO and CEO of several successful software companies, and upper-level management positions in Fortune 100 companies. In addition, Dave was an associate professor of computer science for eight years, and continues to lecture at major technical colleges and universities including the University of Virginia, Arizona State University, and the University of Wisconsin.

10:00am – 10:50am [SESSION 1]
Overview of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012, Jim Ratsch
Focus on SCVMM features and an introduction on how to implement into your current environment.

BIO: Jim Ratsch has been working in the Federal space since 1998 and within Microsoft Federal for the last six years. Within his role, he has focused on the Windows Platform and Active Directory on both reactive and proactive technical support. He has recently been focusing on Hyper-V/SCVMM and lab building, and has worked with Microsoft virtualization products since they were introduced with Microsoft's acquisition of Connectix.

Introduction to Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012, Howard Carter & Reggie Gibson
During this session we will dive into the latest release of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012. We'll discuss new features and walk through the process of constructing your own image development lab.

BIO: Howard Carter is a Desktop Deployment Consultant focused on large scale Windows 7 image engineering and deployments. He's currently working with several federal customers to modernize their desktop management and deployment strategies.

BIO: Reggie Gibson is a Microsoft Consultant currently focused on technologies from the Microsoft System Center Suite and Datacenter Services solutions. He has implemented several Configuration Manager 2007 infrastructures and recently supported a customer with a desktop deployment using Configuration Manager integrated with MDT. With 10+ years of DoD and Federal experience, he is presently supporting multiple customers across the Public Sector space.

Soap Clorox Comet Murphy 2012, Wayne Miller
Housekeeping steps needed to cleanup your old environment in preparation of an SCCM 2012 migration.

BIO: Wayne Miller is a senior consultant with 12 years' experience with SCCM/SMS. Clients have included several federal government agencies. While working for a defense contractor he worked in metropolitan area with approximately 6,000 clients. The environment grew to a 15,000 client SMS 2003 implementation due to multiple successes. Wayne also led a federated team that developed processes and procedures that lead to the eventual creation of a 70,000 client SCCM environment.

11:00am – 11:50am [SESSION 2]
Private Cloud Introduction, Yung Chou & Usman Qureshi
Recently private cloud computing has been emerging as a promising delivery vehicle for enterprise IT services. Among IT professionals, there is however much confusion on what it is and how it works. This session is to bring clarity by presenting both a conceptual and operational views of private cloud. We will step through business scenarios and operations, while private cloud can make a noticeable difference and help IT better delivers services. Come confused and leave with a clear vision of what a private cloud is, what's in it for IT professionals, and how IT professionals can take a productive path, play an enabling role in cloud computing era.

BIO: Yung Chou is currently a Sr. IT Pro Evangelist in Microsoft US Developer and Platform Evangelism team. Within the company, he has had opportunities serving customers in the areas of support account management, technical support, technical sales, and evangelism. Prior to Microsoft, he had established capacities in system programming, application development, consulting services, and IT management. His recent technical focuses have been in virtualization and cloud computing with strong interests in private cloud with service-based deployment and emerging enterprise computing architecture. He is a frequent speaker in Microsoft conferences, roadshow, and TechNet events.

BIO: Usman Qureshi has over seven years of experience in the Federal space. Currently, he is working as a Senior VMware Engineer at the Department of State. Within this role, he has had opportunities serving customers in the area of technical support, solution design, and implementation. His recent technical focuses have been virtualization, cloud computing, and security.

Introduction to Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 Hands on Lab (HOL)
Howard Carter & Reggie Gibson
As a follow on to the "Introduction to MDT 2012" session, you'll get the chance to sit down with your very own MDT server and walk through the process of building an image construction environment. You'll import an operating system, drivers, applications, and build a task sequence.
** Attendee is to provide their own laptop. Hardware requirements: Windows 7 or Windows 2008 with Hardware virtualization , 4GB RAM, 50 GB free disk space on host. Further details will be provided.

Configuration Manager and Forefront EndPoint Protection, Kevin Kasalonis
This session will show CM Administrators how to setup and configure FEP in a CM07 environment. We will create and modify policies, assign polices to collections, deploying the Forefront Clients, monitor deployment, and see how to configure alerts. We will review the methods included in FEP 2010 Update 1 to automate the deployment of definitions.

BIO: Kevin started working with SMS 2003 in 2005 and currently works with Microsoft in the capacity as a Premier Field Engineer. His expertise revolves around package deployment, software updates, operating systems deployment and Forefront End Protection

12:00pm – 1:00pm LUNCH/MINGLE/SPONSORS/VENDORS

12:15pm – 12:45 pm LUNCH and LEARNs
IT Coalition Services and Offerings
Microsoft Premier Services
Overview and Guidelines with User State Migration Tool (USMT)

1:00pm – 1:50pm [SESSION 3]
Hyper-V Hands on Lab part 1 – Begins @ 12:30pm
Since Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V is natively supported and an integral part of the OS and has been continuously improved. This hands-on lab is to go through basic operations of administering Hyper-V and steps to build a simple virtual network. Attendees will be surprised by the simplicity yet with so many capabilities that Windows Server 2008 and later and Hyper-V collectively offer, while all these can be mastered rather conveniently and cost-effectively. ** Attendee is to provide their own laptop. Hardware requirements: Windows 7 or Windows 2008 with Hardware virtualization , 4GB RAM, 50 GB free disk space on host. Further details will be provided.

Extending ConfigMgr OSD with Deploy Expert, Stephen Holcomb
Deploy Expert (DX ) is a System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) integrated process management solution for hardware independent image deployment (HID) and Windows OS migrations. DX reduces the workload and time required to achieve and maintain an enterprise HID capability by up to 95%. Whether you are deploying Windows 7, XP, 2003 or 2008 Server, the DX solution is seamlessly integrated into the SCCM console presenting administrators with an intuitive GUI that manages a simple 4-step process to automatically perform system hardware inventory analysis, driver pack gathering, deployment solution job integration and change maintenance.

BIO: Stephen Holcomb has over seventeen years of IT industry background including extensive experience as a Systems Management Platform integrator and OS deployment expert. Stephen and his staff have assisted hundreds of organizations with customized, automated OS deployment solutions. Stephen's vast experience in implementing customized, standardized image deployment solutions, has helped him to identify a market-wide need for fundamentally better processes and technology to automate Windows OS deployment and other key IT initiatives. With this mission, Altrinsic Solutions was founded in 2005, offering the first of several innovative products including Hardware Independent Imaging Solution (HIIS). The features and automation offered in HIIS have been continually extended, refined and advanced and are found in the next generation of OS deployment automation technologies – DeployExpert for Microsoft SCCM.

Operations Manager 2012 Network Monitoring, Phillip Bracher
We will be discussing what is new in System Center Operations Manager 2012. To include Resource Pooling, Config service Scale and Federation. We will be going over System Center Operations Manager 2012 Network Monitoring features such as a walk through on the discovery process of network devices, monitoring, dashboards and reporting. SNMP supported protocols within System Center Operations Manager 2012.

BIO: Phil has been working at Microsoft for 6 years and has been supporting System Center Operations Manager since the introduction of the product. He has been a System Center Operations Manager Technical Lead for the Product. Phil helped develop the System Center Operations Manager training courses for System Center Operations Manager and is a Master Trainer for System Center Operations Manager. He is currently helping customers successfully implement the product and create custom management packs..

2:00pm – 2:50pm [SESSION 4]
Hyper – V Hands on Lab part 2 Yung Chou & Usman Qureshi
BIO:. Yung Chou is currently a Sr. IT Pro Evangelist in Microsoft US Developer and Platform Evangelism team. Within the company, he has had opportunities serving customers in the areas of support account management, technical support, technical sales, and evangelism. Prior to Microsoft, he had established capacities in system programming, application development, consulting services, and IT management. His recent technical focuses have been in virtualization and cloud computing with strong interests in private cloud with service-based deployment and emerging enterprise computing architecture. He is a frequent speaker in Microsoft conferences, roadshow, and TechNet events.

OS Deployment with MDT, WDS and SCCM Part 1, Rhonda Layfield
BIO For over 30 years, Rhonda has helped people securely deploy, protect, and streamline their IT resources. She began her career in the US Navy where she spent 7 years as communications specialist with a top secret clearance. Later as Sr. Security Analyst for an electrical utility company operating nuclear power plants she discovered serious security flaws in software about to be acquired. She also consults for large customers showing how to quickly and cheaply roll out 50,000 Windows 7 desktops.

But there's one thing that she loves even more than solving IT problems: sharing what she has learned with other people. Rhonda has a passion for learning products at the packet level and sharing that knowledge in her classes with clients large and small. She is an NT, 2000 & 2003 MCSE, 5 time Setup and Deployment MVP and Desktop Deployment Product Specialist (DDPS). Along with teaching she presents at International conferences such as Tech Ed US, Tech Ed Europe, Dubai, Australia and New Zealand contributes articles to Windows IT Pro magazine. She is the only person to have won Speaker Idol on two continents (US and Europe). She is often in the top ten speakers as recently as Tech Ed Dubai (3rd out of +100 sessions).

System Center Configuration Manager Extension Pack, EminentWare
See how EminentWare helps you get more out of your System Center investment. Extend the power of System Center Configuration Manager with 3rd party patch management, enhanced collections views of client health and status enterprise-wide, time-saving "one-click" actions, real-time management data, analysis and graphing, enterprise-wide diagnostics and repair of Windows Update Agents and WMI, and more – all from one easy-to-use interface.

3:00pm – 3:50pm [SESSION 5]
Selected Topics of Private Cloud, Yung Chou & Usman Qureshi
In this session, we will discuss a number of topics of virtualization, cloud computing, and private cloud in an informal and conversational format.

OS Deployment with MDT, WDS and SCCM Part 2, Rhonda Layfield
BIO For over 30 years, Rhonda has helped people securely deploy, protect, and streamline their IT resources. She began her career in the US Navy where she spent 7 years as communications specialist with a top secret clearance. Later as Sr. Security Analyst for an electrical utility company operating nuclear power plants she discovered serious security flaws in software about to be acquired. She also consults for large customers showing how to quickly and cheaply roll out 50,000 Windows 7 desktops.

SharePoint Dashboards for System Center Admins, Eric Harlan
Interactive web parts can build dashboards on the fly on a single SharePoint page. Explore how SharePoint 2010 has inner connectable web parts that allow you to connect to multiple web parts on the page both pushing and pulling data. Thus allowing you to build out graph's populate data etc..

BIO: Eric has been in the I.T. industry for ten years, and heavily involved with SharePoint for six years. Starting from a developer role, Eric has moved on to a more architectural role with a focus on configuration and server implementation Never forgetting his developer roots, he still jumps in when needed to pick up the slack on custom dev needs. As a SharePoint Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft Eric is the first on the ground to troubleshoot SharePoint issues as well as kick off proactive engagements. Eric is involved with many volunteer organizations from the Maryland Elder technology Outreach, SharePoint Saturdays, and educational code camps to President and Co-Founder of the Baltimore SharePoint Users group. Eric also does many speaking events revolving around SharePoint. Topics range from SharePoint Development, InfoPath development tricks and gotcha's to basic SharePoint sessions for the end user.

4:00pm – 6:00pm – DOOR PRIZES RAFFLE/ASK EXPERTS/CLOSING ACTIVITY

SPONSORS
Deploy Expert (Altrinsic Solutions) offers fully automated hardware independent image deployment and migration solutions seamlessly integrated with today's top system management frameworks. Altrinsic's technology reduces the workload and time required to achieve and maintain an enterprise wide Hardware Independent Deployment and Migration capability by up to 95%.
Whether you are deploying Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003 or 2008 Server, Altrinsic's suite of "zero touch" deployment solutions enable quick single image deployment automation which results in one of the shortest term ROI tracks in today's technology marketplace. http://www.deployexpert.com

EminentWare provides highly scalable and cost-effective tools that enhance and extend the power of Microsoft management solutions including Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager. By adding 3rd party patch management, enhanced collection views, powerful reporting options, advanced update management capabilities, and so much more, EminentWare's solutions add key functionality System Center Configuration Manager and WSUS that reduce management time and expense, streamline many common IT tasks, and help companies get more from their investments in Microsoft technologies. EminentWare is a Microsoft Silver Partner and a member of the Microsoft System Center Alliance Program.http://www.eminetware.com

Information Technology Coalition (ITC), Inc. is a Certified Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) incorporated in 2006. We are located in Alexandria, VA and currently employ approximately 70 individuals, most of whom work at customers' sites. ITC provides high-end engineering and computer services to federal government clients with highly qualified staff in the areas of network design, implementation, and operations; data center design, operations, and management; information systems security and information assurance, Continuity of Operations (COOP), Disaster Recovery planning and execution, project management, and IT Training. ITC has a strong customer-focus reputation backed by outstanding past performances with the FBI, DEA, U. S. Army, U. S. Air Force, U. S. Coast Guard, and AT&T/IRS. Our sustained reputation for providing the highest quality of services and solutions are the life blood of the company. http://www.itcoalition.com

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