Hot Topics for MangoCon 2019
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@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.
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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.
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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!
