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SD-WAN, Software Defined Networking (SDN), and the Microsoft Cloud: It’s Definitely a New Frontier in IT

Pearl 442 Fore Street , Portland, ME, United States

“The disruptions caused by the transformation to digital business models are driving adoption of SD-WAN at a pace that is unheard of in wide-area networking.” —Gartner SD-WAN, Software Defined Networking (SDN), and the Microsoft Cloud: it’s definitely a new frontier in IT. And with the pending release of Azure Stack from Cisco (as well as from […]

How to Use Pester to Test Your PowerShell Code

Pearl 442 Fore Street , Portland, ME, United States

SMMUG- Portland ME PowerShell is a wonderful and easy to learn development framework for technical professionals.  And now that it has been ported across Windows, Linux, and MacOS platforms, the sky’s the limit! But, like with any other programming language, there’s always going to be bugs, errors, and broken dependencies introduced into your scripts, functions, […]

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Case Study: City of South Portland’s migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016

Pearl 442 Fore Street , Portland, ME, United States

Case Study: City of South Portland's migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016. Chris Dumais will talk about his upgrade from an on-premise Microsoft Office 2007 and Exchange 2010 environment to an on-premise Office and Exchange 2016 environment. He will talk about his decision making process for going on-prem vs a cloud based solution, how […]

SMMUG in Portland ME: Securing the Horizon View desktop with NSX

Pearl 442 Fore Street , Portland, ME, United States

As more companies more to the Virtual Desktop, this has allowed Malware to be closer to the core of the Data Center and spreading east-west has never been so easy. This session will talk about the segmentation of a use case by creating a new VxLAN's within NSX and then protecting the desktops using NSX […]

SMMUG in Portland ME: The Future of Windows Server and Hyper-V

Pearl 442 Fore Street , Portland, ME, United States

The Future of Windows Server and Hyper-V There are a lot of new technologies and approaches being tossed about today… Cloud Services, Converged Infrastructure, Reduced Surface Areas of Attack, Software-Defined-Just-About-Everything, Nano Server, Server Core, Server vNext, etc.  So what’s Microsoft up to and where are they going?  We’ve heard about the “Cloud First” mentality at […]

SMMUG in Portland ME: Take control of Security and Compliance with Office365

Pearl 442 Fore Street , Portland, ME, United States

Learn the best practices on how enterprises are deploying and using Office 365, tips to making the most of Microsoft’s built-in security capabilities, and security considerations to meet Office 365 security, compliance and governance requirements. Microsoft takes security and compliance to the next level. Now you have even more control over your data security and […]

SMMUG in Portland ME: You’ve heard about Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) and vSAN over the past couple years. The big question everyone has, Is it for my organization?

Pearl 442 Fore Street , Portland, ME, United States

Join Mark Gabryjelski, WEI Virtualization Practice Manager, for a look at how these solutions can provide you another option for shared storage in the datacenter, and how managing these solutions keep the focus on Storage Policy-Based Management (SPBM), rather than managing LUNs. We will discuss vSAN specifically (and logically about other HCI offerings). WEI is taking […]

How Business-Focused Vulnerability Assessments Reveal the True Threats to Your Organization

Pearl 442 Fore Street , Portland, ME, United States

Presentation/Discussion: There’s an important distinction between the results of a generic ‘scan and print’ vulnerability assessment and one that considers the function of the business in its approach. This discussion will detail the results from actual assessments illustrating what can be expected when using a hybrid approach of standard tools and business-focused manual inspection. The […]

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Single Sign-On using Microsoft ADFS 2016

Pearl 442 Fore Street , Portland, ME, United States

Presentation/Discussion: Active Directory Federated Services is a role of Windows Server 2008-2016 that simplifies authentication for end users. Instead of typing a username and password when accessing a web application, users login to ADFS and are securely redirected through the SAML protocol. Web applications vary but include common platforms like Google Apps, Office 365, Salesforce, […]