Mark Minasi: "IPv6 for the Reluctant:  What to know before you turn it off - don't just turn it off!"

***location may change to accomodate more attendees

"IPv6 is never gonna happen," right? For good or ill, that's not true. At our current rate -- assuming no growth in demand for IPv4 addresses -- we will exhaust IPv4 addresses by the end of 2012. That's right... by New Years 2013, there won't be an IPv4 address to be had for love or money. (And IPv6 is a n essential part of Windows Server 200 8 R2's nifty DirectAccess "invisible VPN. .. but that's a story for another day.)

We get IPv6 in-the-box with Vista, Windows 7 and Server 2008 and 2008 R2. Your first reaction when you see an IPv6 address like "fe80::5efe:10.50.50.112" might be: "Hmmm... that’s a lotta colons, and I KNOW what comes out of colons!" But is that the RIGHT reaction? Join veteran Windows explainer Mark Minasi in a look at the latest version of IPv6… and whether you’ll want to leave it on or turn it off. In this whirlwind tour, Mark explains the motivation for IPv6 and the technologies behind its implementation (which saves you from having to read 30 RFCs), adding useful notes on the Microsoft-specific aspects of Windows' IPv6 implementation.  Attendees to Microsoft's Management Summit (MMS) 2010 ranked this talk #1 above 130 other talks... come attend and see why!

When: August 3rd

Where: Suite 400  Booz Allen Hamilton office

Address:  5800 Lake Wright Drive, Norfolk, VA 23502

Schedule:

 5:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Meet, greet, eat

6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Chapter Business Meeting

6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Presentation

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About Mark:

Mark Minasi is a best-selling author, popular technology columnist, commentator, keynote speaker, and IT consultant.  He first got the chance to play with a computer at a university class in 1973. At that time, he learned two things:

First, computers are neat. (People still said "neat" back in 1973. Hey, it was back in the 20th Century.)
Second, many technical peo

 ple are very nice folks, but they can sure put you to sleep in an instant while explaining technical things. 

Mark transformed those two insights into a career making computers and networking easier and more fun to understand. He's done that by writing over a thousand computer columns, several dozen best-selling technical books, and explaining operating system and networking planning, installation, maintenance and repair to crowds from two to two thousand. An independent voice hailed as "Favorite Technical Author" by CertCities four times out of four, Mark has the unusual ability to take even the most technical topics, filter out the hype and explain them in plain English. Perhaps that's why when TechTarget hired him to deliver a webcast on PC tuning, he drew three times as many attendees as any of their previous webcasts, crashing Yahoo's servers, and why he's been hired to deliver keynote addresses at hundreds of techie conferences around the world.

To read more about Mark, feel free to go to his site  http://www.minasi.com/mb2.htm