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The New Face of User Groups

Features

Cover Story:
The New Face of User Groups
Even with the Web and IM, professional-level IT user groups are just as vibrant and important as ever.
by Lafe Low

The Redmond Reader Survey
Readers reflect mixed emotions on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, virtualization and the corporate juggernaut that is Microsoft.
by Lafe Low

Always Open for Business
Follow these best practices to help ensure high availability for your mission-critical applications.
by J. Peter Bruzzese

Always There for You
Hardware and software products use different approaches to high availability.
by Peter Varhol

Reviews
Sunbelt Exchange Archiver:
Find That E-Mail
Sunbelt Exchange Archiver makes e-mail archiving and retrieval accessible to the rest of us.
by Peter Varhol

Redmond Report
Redmond Analysis: Driving VMware
The virtualization stalwart's product guru, Raghu Raghuram, helps the company set its sights on next-generation products and services.
by Ed Scannell

Redmond Analysis: Running on Automatic
Automating your virtualized data center can be a challenge.
by Peter Varhol

Columns
Barney's Rubble
Forget Yahoo! Buy Mac
Yahoo doesn't have anything Microsoft doesn't already have. Apple, on the other hand...
by Doug Barney

Beta Man
A Sea Change for Project Management
The technology is no longer just about command and control.
by Peter Varhol

Never Again
Brother, Can You Spare a Drive?
On the day they call "Black Wednesday," what didn't go wrong?
by Todd Miles

Mr. Roboto
Drilling for Files
This free utility can handle most of your file-management jobs.
by Jeffery Hicks

Windows Insider
Upgrading Soon?
Greg takes you through the steps of upgrading your AD from Windows Server 2003 to 2008.
by Greg Shields

Security Advisor
The Whole Drive
More and more companies are using full-drive encryption (FDE) as a way to protect their data.
by Joern Wettern

Foley on Microsoft
Microsoft's SOA Strategy: Back to Earth
The skinny on "Oslo."
by Mary Jo Foley

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The New Face of User Groups
Even with the Web and IM, professional-level IT user groups are just as vibrant and important as ever.

April 2008 • by Lafe Low

In 1977, a precocious 13-year-old boy named Jonathan Rotenberg established a group called the Boston Computer Society (BCS). While the BCS was set up for PC users, not IT, it formed a blueprint for all the user groups that followed.

"A lot of people wanted to keep it a club for technology enthusiasts," says Rotenberg. "I had a broader vision of how it could benefit people in their everyday lives. I felt the organization had a mission to demystify technology." ...

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