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Thursday August 1, 2013
Session title: Best of TechEd 2013: Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 8.1 and MORE!

Presented by: Keith Mayer, Senior Technical Evangelist @ Microsoft ( http://KeithMayer.com )

Didn’t make it to TechEd this year? There were a ton of exciting announcements around Windows Server 2012 R2, the next major release of Windows Server, Windows 8.1, System Center 2012 R2 and the new Windows Azure Pack for providing a self-service UI in our own on-premises datacenter.  Attend this presentation for a summary of the best of these new technologies and get a live preview of what will be shipping this year from Microsoft.
 

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.

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.

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

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 GroupWise®, Novell ZENworks® 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

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
 

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.

 

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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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