html,body { margin: 0; padding: 0; } td { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: #333333; } Visio 2007 for IT Pro's by Ishan Bhaumik (Microsoft) The Western Mass Microsoft Technology Users Group is hosting a monthly meeting on Tuesday , September 15th at 6:00 PM at the MassMutual Learning Center in Chicopee, MA . Free pizza, drinks and coffee will be provided compliments of MassMutual. Attendance is always free and open to anyone interested in learning about Microsoft Microsoft technologies. Directions are below. Presentation Abstract: Did you know that +8m IT Pros use Visio, and that Visio is the most penetrated IT tool amongst Microsoft Products? Did you know that Visio can use your data to draw diagrams for you? Visio is the de-facto standard in IT diagramming, and yet there are many features and IT Pro-specific add-ins that even heavy Visio users are not aware about. In this session (done mainly within demos in Visio), come learn about how to visualize, explore, and communicate your IT Pro information within your team, and stakeholders outside of your group. You will learn how to… **Map your networks automatically with Visio **Create with Flowcharts, Swimlane Diagrams, and Value Stream Maps **Automatically link and refresh back-end data with Visio diagrams **Manage your IT infrastructure with the most current/accurate data **Model requirements of Line-of-Business applications to establish consensus **Align IT infrastructure easier with Corporate strategy initiatives Live demos of Add-ins built for IT Pros: ** Disk Space Monitoring Add-In ** Rack Server Virtualization Add-In ** SCCM-SCOM Add-In ** Software Upgrade Assessment Add-In ** SQL Server Assessment Add-In About the Presenter: Ishan Bhaumik is a Microsoft Visio Solutions Specialist for the New England District. Ishan’s focus at Microsoft is helping clients learn about tools that help visualize, explore, and communicate their most important projects. Ishan holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and a technology-focused Masters degree in Business Administration from MIT. Craig is also an MCTP for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Sponsors Infragistics is the world leader in Presentation Layer Technology. We are committed to providing our customers the highest quality of reusable presentation layer development tools for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Tablet PC, and Java environments. Our products and services empower our customers' software development teams to realize the potential of the presentation layer by accelerating their development cycles and improving usability for end users. JetBrains has a passion for making developers more productive. We make development tools more intelligent, development processes more efficient, and development cycles shorter -- to simplify your challenging tasks, automate the easy ones, and help you /Develop with Pleasure/. Our innovative .NET products include: ReSharper , TeamCity and dotTrace . Wrox Press , established in 1992 to publish books for computer programmers, is driven by the Programmer to Programmer philosophy. Wrox books are written by programmers for programmers, and the Wrox brand means authoritative solutions to real-world programming problems. Wrox's unique author-editorial process delivers the best and most useful information you need in the timeliest manner.  Meeting Details Tuesday, September 15th at 6:00 PM MassMutual Learning & Conference Center 350 Memorial Drive Chicopee, MA 01020 Telephone: (413) 598-9898 From the West Take I-90 East (Massachusetts Turnpike) to Exit 5 (Chicopee). Bear Right after toll booth, and then Right again onto Rte. 33. The MassMutual Learning & Conference Center is one half mile on the Right. From the East Take I-90 West (Massachusetts Turnpike) to Exit 5 (Chicopee). Bear Right after toll booth, and then Right again onto Rte. 33. The MassMutual Learning & Conference Center is one half mile on the Right. From the South Take I-91 North to Rte. 291 East in Springfield. Follow Rte. 291 East to Exit 6 Ludlow/Chicopee Falls). Follow exit ramp to first Stop sign. Take a Right onto Fuller Road. Continue on Fuller Road to third traffic light. Take a Left at light onto Memorial Drive (Rte. 33). Take a Right into MassMutual Learning & Conference Center entrance. From the North Take I-91 South to Exit 14 to I-90 (Massachusetts Turnpike). Take I-90 East to Exit 5 (Chicopee). Bear Right after toll booth, and then Right again onto Rte. 33. The MassMutual Learning & Conference Center is one half mile on the Right. If you have questions, please direct them to: Craig Pilkenton User Group Co-Leader, Western Mass Microsoft Users Group               -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20090914/d52d54d8/attachment.htm