Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 11:21:45 -0400 From: Boston Windows 2000 User Group Admin Subject: Not a typical Win2K Server meeting announcement as some timely issues deserve your attention. This is not a typical meeting announcement as a few timely issues may deserve your attention. (in red below) WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY ============================================== Boston Area Windows 2000 Server User Group Meeting notice Wednesday, May 1, 2002 6:30PM Microsoft's NEW Waltham, MA office ============================================== Details, directions, more at: http://www.windows2000boston.com/ ______________________________________________________ Topics in this email: 1) Win2K Server successor may be delayed until mid-2003 2) IIS Server security presentation and tool kit now available 3) May-1 meeting topics 3) Boston User Groups, Inc. ______________________________________________________ 1) Win2K Server successor may be delayed until mid-2003 According to a bulletin from InfoWorld, the .NET Server family may now be delayed until mid-2003. Details and links in the yellow box on the web site: http://www.windows2000boston.com/ 2) IIS Server security presentation and tool kit now available IIS has been taking some recent heat on security issues. Microsoft's Thom Robbins gave a terrific presentation on IIS security and the new Server Security Tool kit. We now have his PowerPoint file on our web site. Not exactly optional reading. Worth noting: The new IIS server releases will ship completely locked down (and not functional) as opposed to working out of the box, but being less secure. http://www.windows2000boston.com/moretocome.htm 3) Topics for our Wednesday May-1 Win2K Server User group meeting * A quick update on the evolution and migration issues of Pocket PC 2002 (from a happy Palm User!) * ISA Server: A very capable Security/Proxy Server/Firewall/Web Caching product (and you thought that Vega-Matic was versatile!) ISA Server has received very little promotion but this is a profoundly interesting product. Details: http://www.windows2000boston.com/default.htm#isa 4) BOSTONUSERGROUPS.COM BostonUserGroups.com (http://www.BostonUserGroups.com) is our user group web "portal." Browse the site to get information on a number of local user groups, including a calendar indicating when each group typically meets in a given month. Links are provided to the individual groups' web sites. Although many of the user groups are Microsoft-centric, there are also a number of non-Microsoft groups, including Palm, Macintosh, Lotus, and more. ============================================== Details, directions, more at: http://www.windows2000boston.com/ To unsubscribe or change your email address: http://www.windows2000boston.com/signup_form1.htm ________________________________________________________ Rick Zach, Chairperson Boston Area Windows 2000 Server User Group http://www.bostonusergroups.com 508-460-1906