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 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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Windows Virtual Desktop – Cloud-based Windows 10 Hosting- Portland ME

Pearl 442 Fore Street , Portland, ME, United States

In this session, we’ll dig into Microsoft’s new solution for deploying Virtual Desktops from Azure. The discussion and demo will walk through the components of the solution (200-level technical info) and dig into some tricks, best practices, and things to keep in mind when deploying this solution. We’ll also discuss where Partner value-add solutions come […]

The Azure Sentinel SIEM Solution- Rescheduled

Pearl 442 Fore Street , Portland, ME, United States

The SMMUG event for February 20th, 2020 has been rescheduled.  We are sorry for this inconvenience.    Our next SMMUG event will be March 19th, 2020.   Please join SMMUG at our Thursday, February 20th meeting, when Rich McBrine from Microsoft will present and demonstrate Azure Sentinel. Azure Sentinel is Microsoft's new cloud-native SIEM, leveraging […]

SMMUG: Azure Lab Services – A VDI Solution That’s Not Just For Labs Anymore…

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Azure Lab Services - A VDI Solution That’s Not Just For Labs Anymore... Azure keeps innovating and growing, and nowhere is this happening faster than on the VDI front.  In this SMMUG session, we’ll introduce the newest, latest version of Azure Lab Services and talk about how it “flips the script” on VDI.  We’ll compare […]