Just a ** Ahem ** small plug for an up and coming speaking engagement that I have been invited to on the 28th April 2009.

For sometime now I have had a affiliation with .:ENow working with them on some consultancy scenarios in relation to Exchange 2007 based within the United States as well as being the primary editor of their ESE (.:ENow Solutions Engine) Blog.

Many of you may have heard of .:ENow as they are the people behind Mailscape (one of the leading Exchange Monitoring and Reporting solutions – not necessarily an advert from me as I aim to remain product neutral on this blog – but if you are interested and looking for an independent view this is what MSExchange.org readers had to say about Mailscape).

Anyway to cut a long story short .:ENow have been invited by one of their premier partners in France to deliver a presentation based around Exchange 2007 Migration Strategies and High Availability. Although .:ENow have the expertise in Exchange to cover the full event from their consultancy pool - they have very graciously invited me to attend the event and deliver two 40 minutes sessions.

The meeting will take place within the American Embassy - “Ambassade des Etats Unis”

2 avenue Gabriel
75008  Paris

The title of the event is “The .:ENow Continental Exchange Breakfast Chat”, the sessions that I will be headlining are:

• Session 1 (09:00 am – 09:40 am) – 40 Minutes – Fortune Favours the brave, Disaster Favours the unprepared – planning the jump to Exchange 2007
• Session 2 (09:40 am – 10:20 am) - 40 Minutes – Explaining to the MD or CEO why e-mail was a “nice to have” whilst getting ready for social security

However the day is not just about me – the CEO of .:ENow - JP Gundotra will also be delivering the following session:

• Session 3 (10:20 – 11:00 – 40 Minutes - Your Exchange 2007 Migration- Planning, Deploying, Migrating and beyond

So if you are based in France (or if you are around in France) on the 28th of April 2009 and would like to attend the event – please register and express your interest via the following e-mail address: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Regretfully as space is limited at the Embassy this is a registration only event – so please remember to drop .:ENow an e-mail.

I hope and would love to see some of you there!