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May 07
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BrewMUG Social

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May’s LouMUG meeting will be at Against the Grain Brewery and Smokehouse to kick off summer! We’ll snack on appetizers and one refreshment will be on us. Stop by any time between 4:30 and 7 on Tuesday, May 22!

Apr 16
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Project Management in Practice!

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Project Management: Managing Expectations and Dealing with Delusions, One Stakeholder at a Time

Join us Friday, April 27 with Solarity’s Bert Walther as he discusses his experience migrating over a thousand machines to Windows 10 for the City of Lexington.

Utilizing case studies, this presentation will cover:

  • Simple and visible tools for Human Resource Management
  • Tips and tricks for Communications Management
  • Radical approaches to Project Sponsor and Stakeholder Management
  • Proven methods for driving Scope Management in key Enterprise Projects and Programs

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About the Presenter

Bert Walther


Bert Walther, Project Manager, has had the privilege of working with many highly qualified people in the Central Kentucky business community. With their help he has gained over 20 years of technology and operations experience, including 10 years of experience in higher education IT management, and over 10 years of project management expertise. In his various roles and responsibilities, he has fostered organizational development through effective program and personnel management, and worked hard to deliver project and initiatives as designed and anticipated.

Thank You to Our Meeting Sponsor

Solarity is a Kentucky-based project management consulting company with the focus of helping organizations complete their projects on time and on (or under) budget.
Learn more about Solarity
Mar 16
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The Surface Hub: Built for Teamwork

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Microsoft’s Hottest Collaboration Tool

The Surface Hub: Built for teamwork. Do you need digital tools to unlock creativity? Want to know how to make your meetings more engaging and productive?

Microsoft’s Ben Powell will join us this month to review the Surface Hub:

  • What is it the Surface Hub?
  • Hardware overview
  • Skype Meetings integration
  • Project your PC, wirelessly
  • Collaborative Whiteboard
  • Full productivity with M365 built-in
  • Expanded experience with Microsoft Store apps

About the Presenter

Ben Powell

Ben Powell is a Technical Specialist at Microsoft, focusing in the voice, video and collaboration space. He has spent the past 12 years working in the UC and conferencing space, including Microsoft, Tandberg, Cisco, and Polycom. He is a Louisville local, but is originally from the Washington, D.C. area.

Thank You to Our Meeting Host

Buffalo Constriction, Inc. is a commercial construction company with one overriding promise, to Build Better!
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Feb 14
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Breaking Cyber Security News: Latest Threats and Updates!

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Spectre, Meltdown, 0-Days, Cryptolocker… 

Join us next week to hear Secure Cyber Defense‘s Shawn Waldman discuss the latest threats out there today, methodologies for protecting your organization, and more!

  • Update on Spectre and Meltdown
    • Current exploit attempts and current updates
    • Where do we go from here?
  • Another Adobe Zero-Day in the Works
  • Update on Cryptolocker Threats
    • The latest variants
    • How to combat ransomware
  • How to set up a cyber intel system with Twitter and Slack
  • Why you SHOULDN’T be proud of your network device uptime
  • Q&A

About the Presenter

Shawn Waldman

Shawn is the founder and president of Secure Cyber Defense LLC located in Miamisburg, Ohio. He’s a 20-year IT veteran and served in law enforcement as a police officer in the late 90s. Shawn is a subject matter expert when it comes to FBI criminal justice compliance and speaks across the country on the topic of cyber security. He’s done work with the US Secret Service and the US AirForce teaching on the topic of cyber security.

Thank You to Our Meeting Sponsor

From Staffing to IT Solutions, V-Soft Consulting transforms business through innovation with ServiceNow, MuleSoft, Big Data, and Mobile App Development.
Learn more about V-Soft Consulting
Jan 16
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Hosted Voice and Cloud Telephony

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Curious about the latest VoIP solutions? Confused about the state of local Internet Service Providers?

Then this month’s LouMUG is for you!

Virtual Telecomm’s Jason Hulsewede is joining us this month to review:

  • VoIP/Cloud Telephony applications
  • Best practices for a robust VoIP solution
  • Call center considerations
  • ISP carriers in the Louisville market
  • ISP acquisitions and Fiber/WAN offerings

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About the Presenter

Jason Hulsewede


Jason Hulsewede is a Partner with Virtual Telecomm and has been in the Telecommunications and Technology Industry since 2003.  His company represents all the Major Telecommunication Carriers providing Cloud Telephony (Hosted VoIP), Internet and Wide Area Network services.  Jason is a graduate of the University of Louisville and lives in Louisville with his wife Kate and two children, Holland and Buck.

Nov 27
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Power-Shellebration

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Are you ready to Power-Shellebrate?

Jeremy Sublett, PowerShell expert and Senior Partner of Composable Systems, will be talking PowerShell. He’ll hit on some of the basics with a brief overview then dive into server administration scenarios, interact with APIs and cloud-based products, and programming with new features.

About the Presenter

Jeremy Sublett

Jeremy has over 20 years of extensive knowledge in the software architecture and development. Jeremy is a managing partner at Composable Systems, a custom software firm with such honors as Louisville Fast 50, Best Places to Work in Kentucky, and Inc. 5000.  Jeremy has enjoyed serving the community for many years by speaking for technology community groups and events throughout Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, and Tennessee. While not working, he spends time with his two boys, and enjoys mountain biking and aviation.

Nov 06
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Step-by-Step BCDR Planning

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Join Eric Hentschel and Matt Kern of StorageCraft for a step-by-step guide to making a backup, disaster recovery and business continuity plan that won’t make you look like a turkey! Get buy-in, keep your environment simple, put your plan somewhere accessible, sort your data into people, pets and pigs, and keep your backups secure!

Eric and Matt will review:

  • Getting buy-in
  • Simplifying your environment for ease of recovery and management
  • How to create an accessible plan system your team can work off of during a disaster
  • Sorting your people, pets and pigs in terms of data importance
  • Securing your backups
  • Training on your BCDR plan

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About the Presenters

Eric Hentschel and Matt Kern

Eric and Matt each have over 30 years of experience in the technology sector with a majority of that time devoted to data storage, data protection, and data recovery. Whether you need on-site or in-the-cloud capabilities, a file or full-blown disaster recovery solution, a general unstructured file target or a high-performance all-flash storage solution, Eric and Matt have the years of experience to help you through the plan and build phases of your project and provide the configuration your organization requires for success.

Oct 11
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Datacenter and Server Migrations

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Join Mirazon Chief Technical Architect Brent Earls, as he walks through datacenter and, subsequently, server migrations.

He’ll talk about planning ahead, like budgeting and making your project plan, before reviewing technical methodologies and recommendations, covering networking, servers, environmentals and moving day tips.

Costumes encouraged!

About the Presenter

Brent Earls

Brent is Mirazon’s Chief Technical Architect, responsible for large-scale implementations, client escalations, and company-wide best practices for Mirazon solutions. Brent has worked at Mirazon for over ten years, and is a VCAP and MCSE, to name a few of the letters in his email signature.

Sep 13
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Cybersecurity Workshop: Incident Response

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Join Shawn Waldman of Secure Cyber Defense, LLC for an up-to-date review of the cybersecurity threats out there and then walk through an incident response workshop.

In the workshop, we’ll work through your incident response process with real-world scenarios.

Bring your questions!

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About the Presenter

Shawn Waldman

Shawn is the founder and president of Secure Cyber Defense LLC, located in Miamisburg, Ohio. He’s a 20-year IT veteran and served in law enforcement as a police officer in the late 90s.

Shawn is a subject matter expert when it comes to FBI criminal justice compliance and speaks across the country on the topic of cyber security. He’s worked with the US Secret Service and the US AirForce, teaching on the topic of cyber security.
Aug 08
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Getting Hip to the Hypervisors: Hyper-V vs. VMware

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Getting Hip to the Hypervisors

Join Mirazon’s virtualization Jasons – Jason Thomas and Jason Powell – on a level-headed comparison of two of the major players in the type-one hypervisor arena: Hyper-V and VMware. 

The Jasons will cover:

  • Basic commonalities
  • Management
  • Updating
  • Licensing
  • Storage
  • Software-Defined
  • Networking
  • Security

About the Presenters

About the Jasons:

Jason Thomas (left) and Jason Powell (right) have been been Mirazon consulting engineers for quite a few years now, dealing in both VMware and Hyper-V environments. Before Mirazon, they were both system administrators at their respective employers, using VMware every day.

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