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Jan 13
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Disaster Recovery Planning

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“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” – Benjamin Franklin

Planning for a disaster is difficult. There are a lot of variables and moving parts and stakeholders and tough decisions that you need to make. We’ll be joining Mike Meyer at Peak 10 on January 27 to review how to plan for a disaster.

Mike will cover:

  • What is Disaster Recovery? What is Business Continuity? What’s the difference?
  • What is Recovery Time Objective? What is Recovery Point Objective? How do you define these for your organization?
  • DR planning methodology
  • Framework for DR design

About the Presenter

Mike Meyer

Mike has worked in the IT field for almost 20 years, covering disciplines including Windows system administration, network security design and development, virtualization and cloud system design, build and management.
Mike has been with Peak 10 for about seven years invarious roles, including the Director of Service Delivery.

 

Dec 01
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Project Management 101

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Managing projects can be tough depending on project complexity and team dynamics.

Luckily, there are project planning tools that simplify the process.

Nick Coffman, Mirazon’s Project Manager, will highlight the importance of project management and demonstrate how Microsoft Project and Microsoft Planner make it easier. He will walk us through building a project plan, adding and distributing tasks, syncing to cloud, and utilizing formatting.

Nick will cover:

Value of project management
Best practices
Pros and cons
Key features of Microsoft Project and Microsoft Planner

About the Presenter

Nick Coffman

Nick Coffman, Mirazon Project Manager

Nov 07
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Ignite Recap at WaterStep

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Join us at WaterStep, a local charity that is focused on providing simple clean water solutions to third-world countries!

John Ross, Barry Martin and Andy Cook will discuss what they encountered in Atlanta at Microsoft’s annual conference, Ignite.

Topics include but are not limited to:

  • Hosted Skype for Business
  • Microsoft and Linux
  • Office 365 Next Generation:
    • PowerApps
    • Flow
    • Groups and Teams
    • Planner
  • Server Management Tool
  • Overall impressions
  • And more!

Bring donations to WaterStep and receive an extra raffle ticket!

You can donate here and bring proof, donate monetarily onsite (they accept cash, credit or check), or bring new or gently used shoes or suitcases/duffle bags.

Oct 13
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Windows Server 2016 is Scary Good

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Windows Server 2016 just hit the market!

It’s packed full of new, very useful features as well as some much celebrated improvements.

Join us at the Science Center for a quick review of what to expect from Windows Server 2016 and then have your run of the museum!

Mirazon Solutions Architect Brent Earls will review:

  • Licensing changes
  • Nano servers
  • Containers
  • Active Directory changes
  • Failover clustering
  • Hyper-V improvements
  • Remote desktop services improvements
  • File and storage services changes
  • Storage Replica
  • Dedupe enhancements
  • PowerShell 5.0
  • Windows networking improvements

**Remember** Parking is available for all attendees in the Kentucky Science Center rear lot with code: 8032#

About the Presenter

Brent Earls

Brent is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and has been with Mirazon for 9 years. He has worked with nearly every Microsoft operating system, as well as many other Microsoft programs.

Brent was selected by Microsoft as a subject matter expert for its Hyper-V certification test and is Mirazon’s storage and virtualization practice lead.

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Sep 16
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Heroes in a Half Shell: Using PowerShell for Good

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ninjasPowerShell scripting can be a useful tool if you know how to use it to your advantage.

Composable Systems’ Co-Founder and Software Architect, Jeremy Sublett, is revealing his PowerShell protips at this month’s LouMUG. He’ll go over PowerShell scripting basics and how to leverage it to work with everyday products, specifically Office 365.

Bring a friend with you for an extra raffle entry. We’ll be giving away a Hubsan X4Quadcopter Drone thanks to Composable Systems!

About the Presenter

Jeremy Sublett

Jeremy Sublett is a two-time SharePoint Server MVP recipient and is managing partner with Composable Systems, LLC where he focuses on designing and building solutions on mobile, Azure, SharePoint and everything in-between.  Jeremy has been developing software with Microsoft technology for over 20 years.  As a trainer, he has taught developer and end-user courses for many groups, including Microsoft, all across the country.

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Aug 11
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Not to Make You Paranoid, But … An Update on Cybersecurity Threats and Prevention

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Cybersecurity Threats and Prevention

Do you know best practices to prevent an attack? Would you know what to do in the event an attack occurs?

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About the Presenters

Jay King

Justin Cottrell

Jay King, Mirazon Network Engineering Manager, and Justin Cottrell, Mirazon Systems Engineer, are tag teaming this mind-boggling topic at August’s LouMUG meeting. They will review the basic threat landscape, including malware, ransomware, and intrusion methods along with prevention methods like UTM, monitoring, and end user practices.

Jul 18
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Being a Better Sysadmin

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sysadminWe salute you, sysadmins and IT support professionals!

Louisville Microsoft Users Group and Help Desk International Kentuckiana are joining forces this month for an epic meeting!

We’ll be meeting in Sullivan’s cafeteria for a lively panel discussion about how to do what we do better: customer service, keeping up with tech skills and certs, and the job market as a whole.

Our panelists have an impressive combination of skills and experience in the sysadmin world. Shane Hazelwood, a Senior Technical Recrtuiter at Click IT Staffing, has over 15 years of recruiting experience. David Benefiel, former CIO of Farm Credit Services of MidAmerica, has returned to Farm Credit as a help desk technician. John Ecken, owner of Tandem Solution, aims to provide custom and project-specific IT training for you and your team. 

Lunch will be provided. Bring your questions!

Jun 14
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Good Wi-Fi Starts with Good Networking

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A top of the line network can be tough to achieve.

Brocade Engineer, Jon Lorek, and Ruckus Engineer, Greg Kamer, are taking time to stop by this month’s LouMUG to discuss enhancing your network and consequently your Wi-Fi.

Join us to learn:

  • How to design your network for tomorrow
  • Leveraging open standards to inhibit vendor lock-in
  • What to consider for high density Wi-Fi
  • Networking Hardware as a Service (HaaS)- build the network your business needs without the capitol expense

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About the Presenters

Jonathon Lorek

Greg Kamer

Jonathon Lorek, Channel Systems Engineer with Brocade Communications

Jonathon has been in the technology industry for 10 years focusing on networking and virtualization. He is also a proud husband and fun father to his 2.5 year old son and 14m/o daughter – so he has no free time. But if he did he would be piloting an airplane, driving a motorcycle, or wrenching on anything with a motor.

Greg Kamer, Senior Systems Engineer with Ruckus Wireless, now part of Brocade

Greg has been in the technology industry for over ten years, with four of that focusing on WiFi. He enjoys family, faith, technology and jokes. And bourbon.

May 01
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Summer Social 2016

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Cheers!

Stop by Brickhouse Tavern on Thursday, May 26 between 4:30-7pm to kick off summer with us!

We’ll be discussing some of the angles of the Internet of Things with a few stations. We’ll snack on hors d’eovres, LouMUG will provide fountain drinks, and we’ll have a great time.
Apr 08
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The Microsoft UC Experience

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April’s LouMUG meeting centered around the majestic Microsoft UC Experience in all its glory.

Mirazon’s one and only Daryl Hunter reviewed the Microsoft UC stack and discussedkey product features. He also demonstrated the newest Office 365 Cloud Voice interoperability functions.

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About the Presenter

Daryl Hunter

 

darylDaryl Hunter, Mirazon Engineer

Microsoft: MCITP (Enterprise Administrator, Lync Server Administrator 2010)

MCSE Communication (Lync 2013)

MCSA Office 365, Server 2012/2008

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