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The Annual DaNPA Night Out
At Buffalo Wild Wings Town and Country Location
Join us on a special night Thursday, July 18th at the Buffalo Wild Wings Kettering Blazin Room in Town and Country Shopping Center at 262 E. Stroop Rd. Its our one night a year we can socialize, network, and introduce our family and friend to the DaNPA family. So bring your other, a friend or Colleague and enjoy an evening of fun. If you haven’t been to a DaNPA meeting for a while this will be a great chance to get reintroduced. If you know of other IT Pro’s invite them to the Party.
So join us for fun, food, a great time, and of course some great giveaways.
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June 6, 2013
Isaac Dunifon
Digital Evidence in the Workplace
Computer forensics has evolved rapidly in the past decade. Starting out this process was recognized as an investigative procedure for law enforcement. Now this process is a major component in thousands of civil and criminal proceedings throughout the United States. In this presentation we will review the best practices for e-discovery and computer forensic procedures.
Isaac Dunifon has served the community as a police sergeant, deputy sheriff and cybercrime investigator since receiving his OPOTA certification. He has extensive experience in physical security, certified in computer forensics and forensic video analysis. Currently, Isaac is still certified as an Ohio police officer and the director at Digital C.O.P.S., a division of PERRY proTECH.
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April 4, 2013
Keith Myer presented a See and Do:
Build Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks in the Cloud with Windows Azure
Microsoft has released a preview of the new Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering. This new offering provides the capabilities to build Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks in the Windows Azure cloud, and can be really useful for several scenarios, such as: building virtual lab environments, piloting new software in the cloud, disaster recovery and backup, deploying hybrid IT applications that connect on-premises datacenter workloads with cloud-based VM’s … and MORE! Click Here for full details
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Joe Marton
Novell and The Attachmate Group
Joe Marton gave a presentation covering who Novell and The Attachmate Group is today. He went over their current products and roadmaps, and showed why IT Professionals should use Novell.
At Novell, Inc., they design and build software that makes people more productive and work environments more secure and easier to manage.
They support thousands of organizations around the world with collaboration, endpoint management, and file and networking products that empower the workforce.
With products such as Novell GroupWiseĂ‚®, Novell ZENworksĂ‚® and Novell Open Enterprise Server, the IT Professional can reach new levels of productivity while minimizing cost, complexity and risk.
Novell is committed to helping our customers get more value from the software they already own, and creating new products that will help them compete in a social, mobile and multi-platform world.
If you missed the presentation you can still see it Click Here for the Slide Deck
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Thursday January 7, 2013
Rob Arnett
The Virtual Desktop Experience without the Virtual Desktop Cost!
In companies across the US and the world, Virtualization is one of, if the, the biggest project they have slated for this year. Most of these companies have been doing these projects for the last several years. The term “Virtualization” used to be combining multiple servers on a single physical host. The upsides of this are obvious from a numbers point of view. Full Story
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Thursday December 6, 2012
Robert Stewart
Open Access Points, (Staying Secure)
Rob will talk about how to make sure you are secure when you go to Panera Bread or some other public Wi-Fi spot. Tips on how to harded your systems before connecting to an open access points. And how to stay safe while getting a fresh cup of coffee.
Robert Stewart worked in the IT field for five plus years, focusing mainly in network/server administration, user support, and remote connectivity.
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Thursday November 1, 2012
Rich Werhun
StorageCraft
StorageCraft products and technology are about making computers and their data portable across any hardware, hypervisor, or storage; thus enabling Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery to be easy, fast, cost effective, and simple. The focus has traditionally been on "backup", but StorageCraft's emphasis is on "recovery", fast recovery. Rich Werhun, StorageCraft Sales Engineer, will review functionality, architecture, and best practices as they pertain to physical, virtual, or heterogeneous environments.
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Thursday October 4, 2012
Ryan Troy
Nimble Storage
Nimble Storage has created the industry's first flash-optimized storage engineered from the ground up for maximum efficiency. Nimble Storage solutions integrate the exceptional performance of flash with the favorable economics of high-capacity hard disk drives -- making it ideal for storing and protecting data for all of your critical applications such as Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, server virtualization, and VDI. Nimble Storage will present on the Nimble Storage architecture, functionality and performance characteristics and how we fit into small and medium businesses.
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Thursday September 6, 2012
Ed Aldrich
Ultimate Windows 7 Deployments Using Configuration Manager 2012 and 1E
Windows 7 migration can be difficult. This session shows how to address your most challenging scenarios, using ConfigMgr 2012 and 1E technologies. Learn how to delegate to a low rights coordinator with no need for pre-created collections or console access. Deploy a refresh or bare metal build with a single task sequence, using cached content saving user data locally, all without a server and zero impact to business traffic on your network. Discover how one customer migrated 90,000 systems in four months, 39,000 of which were done in one month alone!
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Thursday August 2, 2012
What’s New in Windows 8,
Windows Server 2012,
and Office 2013 for IT Pros
Keith is Back! Come join Keith Mayer, our own Microsoft IT Pro Evangelist to learn the answers. Over the next 12 months, Microsoft will be refreshing every major product across desktop, datacenter, cloud and phone! Attend this session for an early preview of the new technical features that every IT Pro should know to begin planning for the next versions of Windows, Windows Server and Office!
We will also get information on the new benefits to our group’s membership in the O’Reilly Book User Group Club.
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The Annual DaNPA Night Out
At Buffalo Wild Wings Town and Country Location
You should have joined us on a special night Wednesday, July 18th in the Buffalo Wild Wings Kettering Blazin Room in Town and Country Shopping Center at 262 E. Stroop Rd. It was our one night a year we could socialize, network, and introduce our family and friend to the DaNPA family. So bring your other, a friend or Colleague and enjoy an evening of fun. If you haven’t been to a DaNPA meeting for a while this will be a great chance to get reintroduced. If you know of other IT Pro’s invite them to the Party.
We will have special membership incentives for new members, and of course some great giveaways.
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June 7, 2012
Presentation: What’s New in Managing
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Keith Mayer is our new IT Pro Evangelist at Microsoft, supporting Heartland. Keith has over 17 years of experience as a technical leader of complex IT projects, ranging in roles from Network Engineer, IT Manager, Senior Technical Instructor and Enterprise Consultant. Most recently, Keith has spent the past 4 years working at Microsoft Corporate HQ in Redmond WA as a consultant in the Enterprise & Partner Group where he led the development and delivery of global training programs for Microsoft’s 30 largest World-wide System Integration and Consulting partners. Keith is currently certified on several Microsoft technologies, including System Center, Hyper-V, Windows Server 2008, SharePoint and Exchange, as well as holding certifications from IBM, Cisco, HP and CheckPoint. After relocating to the Heartland district in May, Keith will be based in Columbus Ohio.
What’s New in Managing Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 makes single and multi-server management a breeze with huge advances in OS, GUI Management and PowerShell features! Attend this session at our next meeting with our new IT Evangelist, Keith Mayer, to learn and see what’s new in managing servers with Standards-based Management, Robust Automation and Multi-machine Management Experience. We’ll explore the new Server Management tool, PowerShell 3.0, Server Core and the new Remote Server Admin Tools for Server 2012.
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May 3, 2012
Identity Management
Rocky Bowermaster
The IT and network organizations within enterprises are challenged more than ever to serve users with a diverse set of application and network access requirements based on user or device profiles, location and presence. IT and network organizations play a critical role in aligning with core business processes and goals to expand mobility, improve productivity and maintain application availability, all while adhering to corporate and perhaps outside compliance guidelines.
Extreme Networks in conjunction with our partner Centracomm is pleased to provided a demonstration of their Identity Management solution. This capability extends policies, user authentication and device authentication to edge of the network. In this era of BYOD (bring your own device) Extreme Networks offers a simple means to authenticate users and devices at the network edge. Our capability provides seamless access from wired and wireless allowing users to access the applications they are authorized to use regardless of the device they are using.
Please join us for dinner and our IDM demonstration provided Paul Russo of Extreme Networks. Q&A to follow the presentation and representatives from Extreme Networks and Centracomm will be on hand to address any inquiries you may have.
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SharePoint
April 5, 2012
7:00 - 9:00
Tony’s presentation will be on SharePoint Workflows – How to use the out-of-the-box tools to create workflows that work for you! Tony Maddin will describe how workflows work in SharePoint and how you can use the free toolsets to create various workflows to help assist with automation in your business environment.
Tony Maddin is a Senior Practice Consultant with Ascendum Solutions in Blue Ash, Ohio. Tony has 15 years of experience as a web developer, web administrator, web applications administrator, and 6 years as a SharePoint administrator.
He serves on many local boards such as the University of Dayton MIS Advisory board, Dayton Technology First, and the Dayton Business Leaders and Mangers group.
Tony's passion is technology and his view on SharePoint administration encompasses: installation, automation, workflows, power user items, disaster recovery, performance tuning. He especially enjoys achieving quality results working with myriad business entities to leverage SharePoint as a platform to meet not only their needs, but also those for their customers.
Tony is also the founder and owner of the Dayton SharePoint User Group (DAYSPUG).
Tony Maddin
MCTS, MCITP
Senior Practice Consultant | Information Worker & Business Intelligence
Ascendum Solutions LLC
10290 Alliance Road
Cincinnati, Ohio 45242
937.602.2243 Cell
www.ascendum.com
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VoIP and Internet Telephony
March 1, 2012
7:00 - 9:00
Allen Miller, of Allen Miller Computer Consulting, will give a presentation on IP Telephony and how it can tie in with your IT data structure, leveraging both to yield improved workflow and value. Allen is the president of CINPA and a 3CX VOIP Certified Phone System dealer.
You can learn about this space and decide if it is something you want to take advantage of either for your consulting practice or for your own company. If you have friends that are thinking about mondernizing their Telephone technology, be sure and invite them to come.
Allen will be giving this presentation 3/1 at DaNPA and 3/7 at CiNPA our sister organization in Cincinnati. Check the CiNPA website for details.
There will be a special GIVEAWAY at these presentations to one lucky attendee each night. Through sponsorship by AMCC and its partners - 3CX, 888VOIP and NexVortex - someone will win a bundle of the best of the breed -
- 3CX VOIP Software - 4 Simultaneous Call License
- Yealink T22 IP Telephone
- NexVortex SIP Trunk Service - 3 months
- AMCC - Installation/Configuration Assistance - 1 Hour Consulting (maybe more if you are nice <g>)
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February 2, 2012
7:00 - 9:00
James Siegel and Ryan Troy
VIRTUALIZATION
James Siegel and Ryan Troy will be here to discuss virtualization.
James is our local Dell Representative.
Ryan Troy has over 15 years of Unix/Linux system administrator experience, working in diverse industries that range from web hosting to sales. He has an entrepreneur spirit and has owned two businesses in the hosting industry over the years.
He is passionate about virtualization, specifically Hyper-V and VMware technologies. Ryan is certified in both virtualization platforms and is a published author with O’Reilly on VMware. In addition to VMware, he is also fluent with OpenVZ, Xen (open source) and Hyper-V. He has written articles for Linux + magazine. He also founded the now-official Ubuntu Linux forums (http://www.ubuntuforums.org) in October 2004; he transferred ownership to Canonical in June 2007.
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November 3, 2011
7:00 - 9:00
Skip Murray
Systemax
Come and join us for our next meeting Thursday November 3rd Presented by Skip Murray with Systemax. He will discuss the latest in server products form Systemax and talk about their programs to help make the IT world a little easier. Systemax Manufacturing is an Ohio company out of Fletcher Ohio. They are part of the Tiger Direct family which now includes CopmUSA, and Circuit City.
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October 6, 2011
7:00 - 9:00
Tony Maddin and SharePoint
Great Meeting, thanks Tony. If you missed it Tony Maddin discussed the new architecture and features with the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 product suite. Then we will transition how to manage this environment for it to stand the test of time. Finally, tidbits will be presented to properly facilitate security within a SharePoint environment based upon recommended best practices set in industry..
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