Join us on September 29th in Las Vegas for an SMBNation Pre-Day event.

The day will begin at 8:30am with introductions, then at 9:00am sharp the first session begins. Lunch and an evening at the pub are included with your $100 registration fee. So not only are we providing amazing content by our very own Third Tier consulting team, but we’re going to have fun too!

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Members of our own staff will be presenting at this event: Eriq Neale, Brian Higgins, Dave Shackelford, Jeremy Anderson, Steve Banks and Cliff Galiher

Here’s what we’ve got planned:

2011 Brain Explosion – A Master Class in Remote Access

8:30am – doors open, meet & greet, welcome by Amy Babinchak
9:00am – Mastering DNS
10:15 – break (15 min)
10:30 – Under the covers of Remote Web Access – how it all works.
12:00 – lunch break (30 min) Vendors Lunch.
12:30 – Securing Remote Access using Radius
1:15 – To Be Determined
2:30 – break (15 min)
2:45 – Advanced Exchange Diagnostics
3:30 – Really Enabling Work from Anywhere on Multiple Devices
4:15 – Final thoughts, dismiss by Amy Babinchak

Later that same evening: PARTY with Third Tier at the local Pub.

Country and Time Zone (in GMT):
USA, EST, -5GMT

Areas of Expertise:
Exchange, Directory Services, System Center Operations Center

Certifications and Awards:
MVP Exchange
MCSE NT4/2000/2003
MCITP:EMA and SA
CCNA

Related Work Experience or Business Ownership:
Michael has had over 25 years of experience in the IT field and focuses on providing solutions that support customers goals for operational excellence.

Book:
Monitoring Exchange Server 2007 with Operations Manager

Social Networking:

http://theessentialexchange.com

Jeremy Anderson

Country and Time Zone (in GMT):
USA Pacific, -8 GMT

Certifications and Awards:
MCSE 2003 + Messaging
SBSC

Areas of Expertise:
SBS 2003, Exchange Server, Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS

Related Work Experience:
Active Directory and Exchange Administrator. Small Business Specialist.

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https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032476777&Culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: Talk TechNet with Keith Combs and Matt Hester – Episode 10: Eriq Neale on Small Business Server (Level 200)

Event ID: 1032476334

Language(s): English.

Product(s): Windows Small Business Server.

Audience(s): IT Decision Maker, IT Generalist.

Event Overview

Talk TechNet is all about discussing topics and trends in the world of IT Professionals. In this show we’ll have guest Eriq Neale. Eriq is a Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS) MVP six years running. Eriq is a native Texan, founder and owner of EON Consulting. I’m sure you’ll recognize his name as lead author for the books Microsoft Small Business Server Unleashed (both 2003 and 2008). Call in and join us for what promises to be a lively 60 minute session. Get some burning questions answered.

We’re going to kick off the forum experience by creating a topic for each webinar that we present. Using the forum you will be able to interact with other listeners of the webinar and ask questions of the presenter of that webinar. So if you think of question long after the Q&A session is over, the forum offers you another opportunity to get your questions answered.

The forum is found at http://www.thirdtier.net/forum

Once you have created an ID on the forum you will have access to a user control panel. This is not only an opportunity for you to set a signature and tell us a bit about yourself but you can also setup Buddy Lists and review the threads you’ve subscribed to all in one place. 

So please help us get the forums off the ground and register your ID today. http://www.thirdtier.net/forum

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Robert Pearman

Country and Time Zone (in GMT):
UK London GMT

Areas of Expertise:
Windows Server, Small Business Server, Networking, DNS/DHCP, ISA Server

Certifications and Awards:
MCP, MCDST, MCTS, MCITP, MCSA, MCSE, MCSA+S, MCSE+S, S+, N+, SBSC, SBS MVP

Technical blog and/or publications, recent speaking engagements, etc:
www.sbstips.com
robertpearman.wordpress.com

Related Work Experience or Business Ownership:
IT Authority (www.itauthority.co.uk)
Ittium Ltd (www.ittium.com)

Where I hang out online:
smallbizserver.net

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Carl ‘Webster’ Webster

Country and Time Zone (in GMT): USA, CST, -6GMT

Areas of Expertise:
Citrix, Terminal Server, Windows Server, Active Directory, Group Policy, Exchange

Certifications and Awards:
Citrix Technology Professional, CCIA, CCEE, CCEA, MCT, MCITP, MCTS, MCSE: Messaging, MCSE, MCSA

Technical blog and/or publications, recent speaking engagements, etc:
http://dabcc.com/Webster
http://dabcc.com/BasicsofXenAppBook.html

Related Work Experience or Business Ownership:
9 years in Mainframes, 15 years in software development and 10 years in Windows networking.

Where I hang out online:

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/System_Utilities/Remote_Access/Citrix/

ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com

exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com

thin@freelists.org

Social Networking:
LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook

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Brian Higgins

Country and Time Zone (in GMT) USA, EST, -5GMT

Areas of Expertise:
Windows Server, SBS Server , Active Directory, Group Policy, Exchange Server (2000-2010), Hyper-V, ISA Server, Terminal Services, RRAS, DPM Server, iSCSI, OSPF, BGP, Wireless, Remote Access, VPN

Certifications and Awards:
MikroTik RouterOS Administrator
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft Small Business Specialist
Microsoft Small Business Sales and Marketing

Related Work Experience or Business Ownership:
Investor / Manager – The Hosting News, 3/10-12/10
Director of MS and Data Center Technologies & Senior Network Engineer – Netology, 12/08-5/10
Founding Partner & V.P. / Senior Network Engineer – ForePoint Networks, 8/05-3/09
Founding Owner / Senior Network Engineer – Accent Consulting Services, 11/02-12/08
Systems Administrator -Round Grove Machine Corp. 06/01 – 10/02
Network Administrator – Kelly Construction of Indiana,  03/98 – 04/00.

Social Networking:
LinkedIn

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In How To Start A Thriving User Group, Steve and others will share their experience in building thriving local communities of like minded IT Professionals. Steve is sharing the stage with a dynamic bunch of guys that are running some of the most successful groups in the USA and Australia.

In Hydra Monster, Steve Banks and Dean Paron (Microsoft Product Manager for Windows MultiPoint Server) will present this new server product. It’s in the wild now and being used mostly for educational purposes, but Steve has pioneered this product in the small business space. Come learn about this little known Microsoft server from two long time SBS guys.

You didn’t sign up for MVP Nation yet? There’s still time. http://www.smbnationevents.com/Registration.aspx  Third Tier will also have a booth at the conference. Stop by and say Hello.

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