From our friends down in AZ:

Hello User Group Members,

I have posted the videos of the meeting up to SkyDrive, along with the bonus material from Greg (found in powershellinfo.zip).  Both Harold Wong (MSFT) and Kevin Remde (MSFT) made recordings (thanks guys!) - and you will see both of them posted.  I think the quality is about the same (although I haven't had a chance to watch both of them completely).  You will see the (two) WMV versions along with the (two) Lync Versions (which require the Lync Recording Player).

MNSCUG is joining in on an all-day System Center event. Microsoft's cool new building we just saw can't promise lots of space for this January 19th event, so Benchmark has stepped up to help out (thanks Lu!).

System Center Universe 2012 is a one-day globally available technical event which will focus on the System Center 2012 products and new capabilities resulting from these releases. The conference begins at 8:00 am CST on Thursday, January 19th, 2012.

Although this event is being held is Austin, Tx, there will be user groups like ours all over the world joining into the simulcast. Breakfast and Lunch will be provided for all attending at Benchmark in Edina.

The agenda is listed here. I know that we just talked about what we'd like to see over the next year regarding all System Center products and interest waned beyond CM\OpsMgr\Orchestrator. Of course, you're free to come and go. We'll have more details as we approach the date. Just note that Wally Mead is one of the speakers!

Register Here

Just heard about this and figured I'd share it with the group:

A Day with Microsoft Virtualization, Hyper-V, SCVMM 2012 and SCOM 2012…Oh My
Hilton Minneapolis/Bloomington Hotel
3900 American Blvd W
(494 & France Avenue) - Salon A Minneapolis Minnesota 55437
Register by Phone: 1-877-MSEVENT 9AM-7PM EST M-F
Meal: Yes
Presenter(s):  John Weston and Kevin Remde.
Product(s):  Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Windows Azure, Windows Server and Windows Server 2008 R2.

Starts: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 9:00 AM

Ends: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 5:00 PM
Welcome Time: 8:30 AM

Register here: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032494500&Culture=en-US

LIVE MEETING TODAY -

#MNSCUG -The PowerShell meeting is about to start: http://j.mp/t2QVDc 

If you don't have Lync, you can get Audio via

952-837-4500

Conf ID: 7696785

From AZ Systems Management User Group to us at MNSCUG:

Hello Everyone,

I am really excited to announce that we will have Greg Ramsey in person presenting at our next user group meeting. Here are the details:

Greg Ramsey, Configuration Manager MVP, will be presenting (in person) on using PowerShell with ConfigMgr and he will show you how to make some of those day to day tasks a lot easier.

Greg Ramsey is a systems engineer specializing in global systems management for Dell IT. He has a B.S. in Computer Sciences and Engineering from the Ohio State University and is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager. Greg coauthored SMS 2003 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Apress, 2006) and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Unleashed (Sams, 2009). Greg is cofounder of the Ohio SMS Users Group, and the Central Texas Systems Management User Group.

For this meeting, we are creating an online meeting for those that cannot attend in person but would still like to attend. Also, we are extending this online meeting to members of other User Groups.
Online registration site: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=158309
Online details will be emailed the day of the meeting so check your email account that is associated with your Windows Live ID