{"id":8994,"date":"2007-12-18T09:23:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8994"},"modified":"2007-12-18T09:23:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"microsoft-windows-server-2008-user-group-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8994","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Windows Server 2008 User Group &#8211; Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I&#8217;ve been attending Microsoft&#8217;s Windows Server 2008 (&quot;Longhorn&quot;) Academy every month since mid summer here in Dublin to learn more about this new product.\u00a0 The sessions were run by Microsoft&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/daven\/\">Dave Northey<\/a> and were very succesful.\u00a0 At the end, Dave announced that he wanted to establish a user group using people from the academy that were interested.\u00a0 He looked for volunteers to join and a leader.\u00a0 Muggins here volunteered to lead and it was all said and done after a show of hands.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>So, what&#8217;s the mission?<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>My aim is to get people interested in the product, how it can make their jobs easier and how it can solve business problems.\u00a0 The most common question we&#8217;re going to hear is &quot;Why should I deploy Windows 2008?&quot;.\u00a0 There&#8217;s lots of good reasons and I intend to not only share them but have experts demonstrate real world problems and solutions.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll grow the group steadily and bring it on tour around the country to make it more accessibe.\u00a0 There will be a managed online presence where people can interact and continue the learning, teaching and sharing\u00a0process.\u00a0 And I think there might just be one or two pints drank along the way \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>If this sounds like it might be of interest to you then give me a shout (website &lt;at&gt; highwaycsl.com).\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to be kicking this thing into high gear next month and I&#8217;m really looking forward to seeing the group membership grow in numbers and in influence.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>More details will follow pretty soon!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been attending Microsoft&#8217;s Windows Server 2008 (&quot;Longhorn&quot;) Academy every month since mid summer here in Dublin to learn more about this new product.\u00a0 The sessions were run by Microsoft&#8217;s Dave Northey and were very succesful.\u00a0 At the end, Dave announced that he wanted to establish a user group using people from the academy that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8994\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft Windows Server 2008 User Group &#8211; Ireland&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-internet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}