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 Bangor ME: City of South Portland’s migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016

Seasons Sports Bar 427 Main Street , Bangor, ME, United States

Case Study: City of South Portland's migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016.   Chris 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: 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 Bangor ME: The Future of Windows Server and Hyper-V

Seasons Sports Bar 427 Main Street , Bangor, 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 Portsmouth NH: Desktop as a Service – Reality or Myth for Public Cloud?

Cisco Brewers 1 Redhook Way Pease International Tradeport , Portsmouth, NH, United States

As Public Cloud becomes a mainstream infrastructure play for many, many companies, the obvious question becomes, “Can I run a VDI solution in this space?” This session of SMMUG will dive into the pros/cons of Public Cloud as a platform along with a roadmap discussion of where Citrix, led by Citrix Cloud SME, Todd Smith, […]

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 […]