Events

Microsoft Teams is a business communication powerhouse but the capabilities are far greater than most realize. Join Virtual Telecomm’s Jason Hulsewede to review options for enabling the Microsoft Teams Applications as part of your business communications strategy. We will cover Microsoft’s phone system benefits and challenges, and explain how leading UCaaS providers are integrating directly with the Teams application. Finally, we’ll discuss some amazing features that are slated to be released in the first half of 2021.

Agenda

• Microsoft Unified Communications History & Review Gartner Magic Quadrant
• Options to Implement Teams as a Phone System
• Leveraging a UCaaS Provider
• Supported Handsets
• Mobile Applications & Integrations
• Upcoming Features

You’ll leave this presentation with knowledge about the Microsoft 365 business voice solution, an understanding of dial plans, what licenses are needed, and how the leading UCaaS providers can deliver integration with the Teams application.

 

Jason Hulsewede is a Partner at Virtual Telecomm and has been in the telecommunications industry since 2003. At Virtual Telecomm, Jason leads the Business Development team, combining leading cloud phone and SD-WAN solutions with various internet connections to meet clients’ diverse business needs. Jason also manages Virtual Telecomm’s carrier relationships and is always evaluating best-in-class providers to add to our portfolio of next-generation technology services

Join us for our final LouMUG of 2020! Jeremy Miller, executive director of enterprise architecture at Kentucky Community & Technical College System is going to SCHOOL us (see what we did there?) on Microsoft’s Whiteboard functionality. We’ll talk about how to get started with the Whiteboard and how to integrate it into your Microsoft Teams meetings.

We will round off our last meeting of the year with a fun game using the Kahoot! platform, so bring a secondary device to use as your remote control.

And, as is tradition, Santa will be sending two lucky winners a Microsoft Surface prize! We’ll be giving away a Surface Book and a Surface Pro. Must be present to win, so stick around with us until the end.

Jeremy is the Executive Director of Enterprise Architecture at KCTCS leading a team focused on delivering innovative, secure and scalable solutions.

Recognized as a Microsoft MVP, Jeremy is passionate about the community. He is the founder of the Central Kentucky Microsoft User Group and co-hosts the Tech Impostors podcast. He has a broad background in designing and supporting both cloud and on-premises systems, including work in various complex environments from hospitality to education to multi-national manufacturing companies.

Shawn is the founder and CEO of Secure Cyber Defense. He is a 20-year IT veteran and previously served in law enforcement.

Shawn was deeply involved with the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information System compliance framework, and ultimately wrote the compliance-training curriculum for other agencies and vendors. Shawn is a subject matter expert when it comes to FBI criminal justice compliance and speaks across the country on various topics related to cybersecurity and threat detection.

Rance has been one of Mirazon’s networking engineers for 5 years. Before that, he served as a communications specialist in the Department of Defense. Today he spends his days setting up network security gear, slapping down ransomware and skateboarding.

Russell is a Senior SharePoint Consultant at HMB. Having worked in SharePoint for seven years in three different capacities, Russell can answer almost everything on the topic. He is also involved with LouMUG, and wishes to bring SharePoint Saturdays back to the ‘Ville in the future.

PowerShell is one of the most awesome tools Microsoft has created in the past 20 years. It has the power of .NET combined with an easy to learn scripting language syntax. Join LouMUG this month for our first ever virtual event as Tony Morrow shows you how to take simple PowerShell code and elevate it to the next level.

Topics:

• What is PowerShell?
• How does Tony uses PowerShell?
• How to:
  • Install and use modules
  • Loop and pipe data
  • Create custom objects
  • Build advanced functions
  • And more

Tony is the Principal Solutions Architect at Bellarmine University’s Information Technology Department. With 10 years of experience he is considered a jack-of-all-trades, assisting with managing the University’s network, security, and wireless infrastructure; server and virtual environment; and designs solutions using PowerShell whenever possible. Tony is an avid technology nerd and race car fan with more knowledge than any one person should have.