Small Business Server contains an integrated suite of serverproducts that enable companies to share information and resourcessafely and securely, such as file sharing, printing, e-mail, faxing,Internet access, and line-of-business applications. End-to-end networkadministration features are included to help you run your networkproductively and efficiently. Administrative wizards simplify common orrepetitive tasks and preconfigured management consoles help you manageyour network more effectively. Small Business Server also provides anintegrated setup solution to help you install and configure your smallbusiness network easily, up to a maximum of 50 client computers.

• Features at a glance
• Competitive comparisons
• Examples of businesses using SBS
• Resource Kit and other resources from Microsoft
• A live demonstration will be given

Our speaker will be:

• Charles Anthe, Program Manager on the Small Business Server team at Microsoft
• Q&A to follow

A panel of really good money people will discuss, among themselvesand with the audience, practical questions related to how to charge,how much, and how to make sure you get paid.

Among the topics which they will discuss are:

• Leasing and Tax Advantages
• Contracts
• Getting paid:
  • Billing
  • Late Fees
  • Pre-work negotiations
• Credit cards

On the Panel will be:

• Don Cummings, CEO TTJ Computer Services
• Terry Peterson, National Accounts Manager Westpac Financial Services
• Others yet to be determined

A panel of established computer consultants will discuss, amongthemselves and with the audience, practical questions related topreventing and troubleshooting PC and networking problems

Among the topics which they will discuss are:

1. Disaster Prevention
   • Power related
   • Security related
   • User related (Right restrictions)
   • Suspect Software
   • Computer cleanup - spyware, virus, firewall
   • Other
2. Disaster recovery
   • Various Backup Strategies (and stragedies)
   • System images
   • Installation guides
   • Software inventories and management
   • Tools
3. Troubleshooting Tools and Techniques
   • When to troubleshoot, when to just buy new
   • Cleaning up the startup
   • Uninstalling
   • Registry Editing
   • Useful Tools
   • Network diagnostics
   • What was your weirdest disaster?

A panel of established computer consultants will discuss, among themselves and with the audience, practical questions related to running your own consultancy business.

Among the topics which they will discuss are:

1. The computer consultant's business plan - Where to position your company. Various business positioning strategies
2. Ethics for computer consultants
3. Selling add on services
4. The 3 things a computer consultant shouldn't do
5. Client psychology, how to differentiate between the kooks and quality clients
6. Business structure, incorporation, LLP, Sole proprietor
7. Increasing repeat business
8. Marketing strategies

Joe will review two of Free and Fair's recent projects:

1. ElectionGuard: A software development kit (SDK) that will enable anyone to build verifiable elections technology. Voting system developers can use ElectionGuard to make their voting systems end-to-end verifiable, allowing for individual voters to confirm their votes were counted, as well as for third parties to validate that the results of an election haven’t been tampered with. ElectionGuard was developed by Free & Fair and is a Microsoft product.

2. Elections as a Demonstrator for Secure Hardware: With funding from DARPA, Free & Fair has developed an open source, open hardware secure hardware demonstrator called the Smart Ballot Box. This technology ensures that only legal ballots are permitted in the ballot box.

Come to learn about this exciting new technology and ask your questions. There will be an extensive question and answer period.

This month we are going to play a video tutorial by Mark Russinovich as he explains how to use Process Explorer for Virus analysis and removal. We intend to work live with it and to stop the video frequently to discuss the points being made and answer questions. We expect to all gain a better understanding of this powerhouse tool and share our experiences using it.

Yes, this meeting is on the 3rd Tuesday instead of the last. This is will leave us free to do other things during Thanksgiving week

We will look at the pros and cons of various browsers. What are their safety and privacy features? What are their unique features?

We will review:

• Brave
• Opera
• Firefox
• Cliqz
• Vivaldi
• Chrome
• Edge

We will look at adblocking, antitracking and other extensions that make browsers more useful. Finally, we will look at AdGuard which allows Adblocking and privacy features across all browsers.

Members will discuss their clients' use and their own of iCloud, G Suite and MS Office Suites. They will consider Email, Calendaring, sharing and coordination as well as production and backup. Everyone is welcome to participate as we share important knowledge.

This meeting will be a discussion of the various ways we've used for file syncing and also  for file sharing for both ourselves and our clients. It will be a general discussion hopefully involving everyone. We have wide and varied experiences we can share.

Nothing is constant but change. Backups are no exception to that rule.

Come prepared for a wide ranging discussion of the current world of backups. And come prepared to share your experiences, both pros and cons, with backups of all kinds.

We will discuss:

• How to "sell" backup solutions to customers who are resistant.
• Pros and cons of drive image backups or file copy backups.
• Pros and cons of various cloud solutions.

All types of backups will be covered, including:

Local Data Backups - Including at least:

Second copy, FBackup, Windows 10 File History, AOMEI, Cobian, etc.

Online Backups - including at least

Carbonite, Idrive, Spideroak, BackBlaze, Datto, Solarwinds RMM, etc.

Imaging

Shadow Protect - Storage craft; Time machine; Disk2VHD, Macrium Reflect, etc.

Online sychronization like: Google drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, SpiderOak, etc.

Come prepared with your recommendations, and disaster stories ready to learn and contribute.