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RMWTUG July 2008 Meetings

RMWTUG July 2008 meeting time and locations:

• Denver, Tuesday July 15, 2008, 7:00 p.m. (networking begins at 6:30 p.m.)
  Address: Sprint, 10002 Park Meadows Drive, Lone Tree
  
  
• Colorado Springs, Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 7:00 p.m. (networking begins at 6:30 p.m.)
  Address: Verizon, 2424 Garden of the Gods Road, Colorado Springs

RMWTUG July 2008 meeting topics and agenda

• Navigating Microsoft’s Open Protocols - How will product development change in the new world of Open Protocols
• 15 Minutes of Fame - The Best I/O is No I/O
• 15 Minutes of Fame - Windows Network File Copy Speed Comparisons Part Two
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These July meetings are free and open to the public.

Calendar items (you can open and save onto your Outlook calendar):

Denver meeting - July 15       Colorado Springs meeting - July 16

Topic 1: Navigating Microsoft’s Open Protocols – How will product development change in the new world of Open Protocols, Keith Hageman, Microsoft

Microsoft recently provided open access to a huge amount of protocol documentation to aid third parties to interoperate with Microsoft high-volume products at the wire protocol level. However, due to the sheer volume of the documentation, it can be a time consuming task to wade through them all, let alone understand how the protocols work “in the wild”. This talk will focus on what protocol documentation, tools, and forums are available to help the developer. In addition, a brief overview of Microsoft’s Patent Pledge for Open Source Developers and Protocol Patent licensing program, including the “Protocol to Patent Maps” tools, will also be provided.

The goal is to help the community to navigate and utilize Microsoft’s open protocol documentation, enable them with tools to debug wire protocol issues, and provide a forum to answer questions and to foster a community approach to understanding how to interoperate with Microsoft high volume products including Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Exchange Server 2007, SQL Server 2008, Office 2007 and Office SharePoint 2007.

Keith Hageman is a Senior Technical Evangelist for Microsoft Open Protocols team (www.microsoft.com/protocols). Keith works with a variety of partners in the IT industry to license and implement open protocols. Keith also works with Microsoft's product development groups developing product protocols.

Keith has been in the technology industry for 30+ years at StorageTek, NBI, GTE Communication Systems and on contract to AT&T and U.S. WEST as a member of technical staff in various development roles. Keith joined Microsoft in 1997 working with partners to develop products that integrate with Windows client and server operating systems.

Topic 2: 15 Minutes of Fame - The Best I/O is No I/O, Tom West, hyperI/O

This presentation will discuss the effectiveness of the system file cache and how much of an application's I/O activity actually goes to disk. The presentation will include empirical metric data that reflects the heavy use of the system file cache.

Topic 3: 15 Minutes of Fame - Windows Network File Copy Speed Comparisons Part Two, Dennis Martin, Demartek

This is part two of the Windows network file copy speed comparisons. Dennis will give the results of his testing of network file copy operations using different versions of Microsoft Windows, both desktop and server versions. This presentation will focus on the differences between SMB 1.0 used in versions of MS-DOS and Windows through Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, and SMB 2.0 used in Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008.