ACCB.net - .NET User Group Brugge

The .NET User Group Brugge has the mission to improve communication among .NET developers, to give demonstrations, to have discussions, and to do develop together. You don't have to live in Brugge to join the user group: everybody interested in .NET software development is welcome.

The user group also works together with www.vbib.be, a Visual Basic Forum.

They come together twice time every month on a Wednesday evening at 20h30.

Website : http://www.accbdotnet.be

Belgian Dynamics Community

The Belgian Dynamics Community (BDC) is the independant community that brings together the whole Microsoft Dynamics community, allowing both Partners and Microsoft Dynamics end-users to share experiences and best practices.

The community was created to address everyone who is in interested in Microsoft Dynamics: end customers, partners, consultants and Microsoft employees.

BDC's objectives are:
• Organize knowledge sharing events on a periodic basis
    o Independent information on Microsoft Dynamics Solutions
    o Functional and Technical Sessions
• Web site presence
    o Session content (Presentations,webcasts)
    o Blogs
    o Discussion forum
    o Best practises
• Organize networking events

Website : http://www.DynamicsCom.be

BIWUG

The primary goal of the Belux Information Worker User Group (abbreviated as BIWUG) is to be a central meeting point for the Information Worker community in Belgium and Luxemburg. BIWUG members are people, technical and non-technical, who are interested in Microsoft Information Worker products and technologies. We cover the whole range of products and technologies that influence in some way or another the daily activities of the information worker. BIWUG is there to provide the members the needed organization, infrastructure and support to share their experiences, learn about products and technologies in a different way than at Microsoft organized events, seminars or trainings, discuss problems with other members or IW peers in round-the-table sessions, get product demonstrations from third-party vendors, and much more.

Website : http://www.biwug.be

IT-Talks

IT-Talks' objective is to gather IT Professionals at a regular time, organizing tech talk events, and offering the possibility to share knowledge. In order to do so, they organize technical sessions on products, technologies and ideas. Besides of tech talks, they offer hands-on-labs.

Because they want to keep things interactive, you will also be able to discuss your experiences. This is an excellent opportunity to solve problems, scenarios, and to exchange ideas.

Website : http://www.it-talks.be/ittalks/

Pro-Exchange

The primary goal of the Pro-Exchange user group is to be a central meeting point for all Unified Communications knowledge in Belgium. As user group, we are focused on IT professionals who are passionate about Microsoft Exchange Server and the other members of the Unified Communications portfolio, like Microsoft Office Communications Server.

Pro-Exchange members share a document library filled with useful articles about anything concerning Unified Communications. Two very important aspects of Pro-Exchange are the forum where every member is able to ask questions and share ideas concerning Exchange & OCS, and the frequent events where Pro-Exchange members meet each other and exchange ideas.

Pro-Exchange also sheds a light on other technologies that are linked to Exchange, like WMI and Powershell scripting and so much more.

Website : http://www.proexchange.be/

SCUG.be

SCUG.be, the Belgian System Center user group, is a user group for Belgian IT Pro’s with a strong focus on Microsoft System Center. We cover the whole range of System Center products, concepts and technologies. The main goal of the UG is to share experiences and knowledge with each other, deliver technical quality content created for users by users and organize on a regular basic meetings, sessions and hands-on labs.

If you want the share knowledge and experience in one of the Microsoft System Center Products feel free to join our user group trough the website.

Website : http://scug.be

SQLUG.be

SQLUG.be, the Belgian SQL Server User Group is a public user group that brings currently more than 450 Belgian SQL Server enthusiasts together to share experiences and knowledge. We organize UG-activities every 2 months with presentations and round-the-table discussions.

We cover all technologies and products appearing in the Microsoft SQL Server suite, from all aspects of the storage engine to all BI-related services, from Notification Services and Service Broker to Full-Text Search, from Developer edition to Mobile edition.

Professionals and students who are interested or involved in one of the products of Microsoft SQL Server are welcome to join. We hope to welcome infrastructure specialists as well as developers, technical and non-technical people and everybody who wants to share experience, ideas or knowledge about SQL Server.

Website : http://sqlug.be

VISUG

The overall goal of the VISUG is to provide the Visual Studio .NET community in Belgium with the necessary infrastructure and organization to enable a community meeting point for everybody who is interested in Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET related technologies. A lot of community activities are happening already in Belgium in the context of blogs, informal meetings, events organized by Microsoft or partners. VISUG wants to formalize these activities and become the single point of entry for the Belgian Visual Studio .NET community to the outside world.

VISUG targets everybody interested in Visual Studio.NET related products and technologies. This involves developers, infrastructure people, administrators, architects, managers, sales people and possibly also power-users. The meetings and activities of the VISUG should cover topics in all of these areas. The distribution amongst the topics should be representative to the categorization of the members.

Website : http://www.visug.be/

WinSec

Winsec.be offers a networking opportunity for IT Security Professionals who want to share knowledge and experiences, both technical as non-technical.

WinSec.be mainly focuses on Microsoft security systems covering Identity & Access management, such as Identity Integration Server (MIIS), Certificate Lifecycle Manager (CLM), Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM), Rights Management Services, AD Federation Services and Microsoft Forefront Edge (with ISA server and Intelligent Application Gateway, IAG).

If you are interested or if you would like to subscribe to our events, feel free to join our user group through the website or send an email with your contact details to info@nospam.winsec.be (remove "nospam." part).

Website : http://www.winsec.be/

XNABug

The goal of the XNA Belgian User Group is to connect people interested in game development and exchange technical skills. This can be done during our meetings, who shall be opened by a presentation by a guest-speaker, who will highlight an aspect of XNA. Content and articles will also be shared, and to top it off, an occasional drink together.

Technical skill doesn't matter, everybody living in Belgium can join XNA-BUG and connect.

To strengthen our launch, we shall start XNA-BUG by launching a contest on game design, supported by Microsoft. The first prize will consist of two Xbox 360 consoles. More info in about the contest can be found here.

Website : http://www.xnabug.net/