Join us for what is sure to be both an educational and entertaining event on December 12 from 6:00PM to 8:30PM at the offices of AG Research in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Free pizza, pop, coffee, and tea will be provided. There will be door prizes as well. Seating is limited, so register now!

The ABCs of Desktop Deployment: MDT, WDS, MAP, ACT, SCCM, USMT: You Can’t Spell DEPLOYMENT Without Them!

Windows 7 is the fastest selling operating system in history. With such high adoption rates, it is important for the desktop deployment engineer to know all of the tools available to make their lives easier… and most of those tools are free! This high-level session will provide an overview of the alphabet soup of deployment and compatibility tools, and a demo of most of them. Prepare to walk out of this session ready and eager to become your company's deployment guru!

Mitch Garvis is a Renaissance Man of the IT world.  Aside from being a partner with SWMI Consulting Group, he is a Virtual Partner Technology Advisor for Microsoft Canada and has contributed to numerous certification exams for Microsoft Learning.  He seems to collect certifications, and trains on a variety of topics including System Center, server virtualization, desktop deployment, and security.  We think that parts of Windows 7 really were his idea.  You can read his blog at www.garvis.ca, or follow him on Twitter as @MGarvis.  He makes his home outside Toronto where he has one wife, two kids, two dogs, and two minutes to himself per day.