Hot Topics for MangoCon 2019
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@jaredbusch said in Hot Topics for MangoCon 2019:
@scottalanmiller How technical do we want to be?
I have a few things I can do at different levels.
But a small conference is not going to be deep enough in attendance to have something super technical that appeals to more than a few people in the crowd.
Decently technical. Kind of on a scale of 1-10, maybe a 6-8
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@phlipelder said in Hot Topics for MangoCon 2019:
I'm thinking a well stocked conference room would be the cat's meow for a smaller-ish conference.
I'd be more than happy to contribute as we're focused on SMB/SME.
Topic ideas?
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@scottalanmiller said in Hot Topics for MangoCon 2019:
@phlipelder said in Hot Topics for MangoCon 2019:
I'm thinking a well stocked conference room would be the cat's meow for a smaller-ish conference.
I'd be more than happy to contribute as we're focused on SMB/SME.
Topic ideas?
As far as presentations go for me?
- SMB/SME IT Business Pearls - The ups and downs of building a SMB/SME IT Support Practice
- Server Systems and Fabrics: Building for workloads - Baselining and Building
- Server Hardware: Firmware horror stories
- Hyper-Converged: All things HCI focused
- What's in a Lab: Building on a budget
- Active Directory: Designing for Security and Flexibility
- Group Policy: Lock things down without user complaint
- Windows File & Print: Configuring for security and flexibility
- Remote Desktop Services: Baselining and Designing for user workloads (standalone and farm)
- PowerShell: Got lots of scripts to share and tools guidance
- Windows Cluster: Hyper-V, Storage Spaces, Storage Spaces Direct
- Windows Admin Center: Monitoring
- Monitoring: Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana S/U for Windows
The above is off the top.
I've done a lot of this one over the last year or two:
- Business and Personal Security: Protecting your data, resources access, and identity
How'z that for a start?
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@phlipelder said in Hot Topics for MangoCon 2019:
@scottalanmiller said in Hot Topics for MangoCon 2019:
@phlipelder said in Hot Topics for MangoCon 2019:
I'm thinking a well stocked conference room would be the cat's meow for a smaller-ish conference.
I'd be more than happy to contribute as we're focused on SMB/SME.
Topic ideas?
As far as presentations go for me?
- SMB/SME IT Business Pearls - The ups and downs of building a SMB/SME IT Support Practice
- Server Systems and Fabrics: Building for workloads - Baselining and Building
- Server Hardware: Firmware horror stories
- Hyper-Converged: All things HCI focused
- What's in a Lab: Building on a budget
- Active Directory: Designing for Security and Flexibility
- Group Policy: Lock things down without user complaint
- Windows File & Print: Configuring for security and flexibility
- Remote Desktop Services: Baselining and Designing for user workloads (standalone and farm)
- PowerShell: Got lots of scripts to share and tools guidance
- Windows Cluster: Hyper-V, Storage Spaces, Storage Spaces Direct
- Windows Admin Center: Monitoring
- Monitoring: Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana S/U for Windows
The above is off the top.
I've done a lot of this one over the last year or two:
- Business and Personal Security: Protecting your data, resources access, and identity
How'z that for a start?
Well if you really can't think of anything....
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@phlipelder said in Hot Topics for MangoCon 2019:
I'm thinking a well stocked conference room would be the cat's meow for a smaller-ish conference.
I'd be more than happy to contribute as we're focused on SMB/SME.
Well, the previous Mangocons have featured both food and alcohol. I think we'll be covered
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@scottalanmiller said in Hot Topics for MangoCon 2019:
- Monitoring: Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana S/U for Windows
I'd personally like to see this and bet it would be popular.
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@scottalanmiller said in Hot Topics for MangoCon 2019:
- Windows Cluster: Hyper-V, Storage Spaces, Storage Spaces Direct
Especially with 2019 being mature by the conference date, this seems like it might be a good one.
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Sender Authentication Deep Dive (SPF, DKIM, & DMARC)
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For anyone who wants to commit to being a speaker: Please send me your topic (if you have one), a hi-res picture with good lighting (might I suggest taking a peek at the pics of the current set of speakers for an idea of what would make you look super cool), and a bio. We might need to fine tune topics, but I'd love to get an idea of who our speakers are and add you to the website as soon as we are able.
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@kelly said in Hot Topics for MangoCon 2019:
Reseller/VAR vs ITSP/MSP. What makes them different, and what value do each deliver.
I like this and it would be nice if we had a panel for it.
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Some topics I'm thinking about doing...
- NoSQL, What is it and what are major products today
- The Commodity Line
- What Does Good Look Like - Modern Software Design
- From RAID to RAIN, Storage Trends in Current IT
- Cloud v Colo v On Prem - Understanding the decision factors between them
- Backups in the DevOps Age
- Risk Analysis for High Availability
- Linux on the Desktop 2019
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@scottalanmiller said in Hot Topics for MangoCon 2019:
Some topics I'm thinking about doing...
- NoSQL, What is it and what are major products today
- The Commodity Line
- What Does Good Look Like - Modern Software Design
- From RAID to RAIN, Storage Trends in Current IT
- Cloud v Colo v On Prem - Understanding the decision factors between them
- Backups in the DevOps Age
- Risk Analysis for High Availability
- Linux on the Desktop 2019
Risk analysis for high availability is almost a need industry wide.
The rest are all both entertaining and educational.
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@scottalanmiller said in Hot Topics for MangoCon 2019:
@kelly said in Hot Topics for MangoCon 2019:
Reseller/VAR vs ITSP/MSP. What makes them different, and what value do each deliver.
I like this and it would be nice if we had a panel for it.
Certainly you and I would work that panel. Who else?
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@scottalanmiller said in Hot Topics for MangoCon 2019:
The Commodity Line
You did this at the very first ML meetup in NYC. It needs done again and recorded properly. I reference this talk all the time.
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@jaredbusch said in Hot Topics for MangoCon 2019:
@scottalanmiller said in Hot Topics for MangoCon 2019:
@kelly said in Hot Topics for MangoCon 2019:
Reseller/VAR vs ITSP/MSP. What makes them different, and what value do each deliver.
I like this and it would be nice if we had a panel for it.
Certainly you and I would work that panel. Who else?
Can do. Our business, my wife and I co-own, is both VAR and a blended MSP.
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@gallothefourth said in Hot Topics for MangoCon 2019:
Sender Authentication Deep Dive (SPF, DKIM, & DMARC)
I can talk about how barely useful this really is.
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@phlipelder said in Hot Topics for MangoCon 2019:
@jaredbusch said in Hot Topics for MangoCon 2019:
@scottalanmiller said in Hot Topics for MangoCon 2019:
@kelly said in Hot Topics for MangoCon 2019:
Reseller/VAR vs ITSP/MSP. What makes them different, and what value do each deliver.
I like this and it would be nice if we had a panel for it.
Certainly you and I would work that panel. Who else?
Can do. Our business, my wife and I co-own, is both VAR and a blended MSP.
Perfect. Because @NTG and @Bundy-Associates are very similar ITSP models.
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@jaredbusch said in Hot Topics for MangoCon 2019:
@scottalanmiller said in Hot Topics for MangoCon 2019:
The Commodity Line
You did this at the very first ML meetup in NYC. It needs done again and recorded properly. I reference this talk all the time.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I really liked that one, and someone * cough cough * didn't record it!
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@Dominica @pchiodo
Obviously, I can doing something on VoIP decision making or something. Similar but different from what I just did at SpiceWorld. Maybe focused on deciding on internal hosted vs external hosted as well as some other point in more detail.I also have something half wrote on "Are you (IT) helping or hurting your company?"
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@jaredbusch said in Hot Topics for MangoCon 2019:
I also have something half wrote on "Are you (IT) helping or hurting your company?"
Oh, that could be good.
