Author Archives: Marc

2016-05: Acquiring Hardware

Posted on 10 May 2016 by Marc

Location:  The Working Centre 58 Queen Street South, Kitchener, ON (plan) Date: May 9th, 2016 Time: 7:00 PM Nonprofits tend to have different budget constraints than other organizations, and often different requirements. Let’s talk about them. What kinds of constraints … Continue reading →

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2016-04: What to Celebrate

Posted on 12 April 2016 by Marc

Location:  The Working Centre 58 Queen Street South, Kitchener, ON (plan) Date: April 11th, 2016 Time: 7:00 PM As a counterpoint to last month’s terrifying meeting, let’s discuss the ways that system administration has gotten easier and more effective. We … Continue reading →

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2016-03: What Should We Fear?

Posted on 17 March 2016 by Marc

Location:  The Working Centre 58 Queen Street South, Kitchener, ON (plan) Date: March 14th, 2016 Time: 7:00 PM Ransomware. Spear-phishing. Botnets. Dirty USB attacks. Protecting our users and data has always been scary, but things appear to be getting scarier. … Continue reading →

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2016-02: Organizational Databases

Posted on 17 February 2016 by Marc

Location:  The Working Centre 58 Queen Street South, Kitchener, ON (plan) Date: February 8th, 2016 Time: 7:00 PM Many organizations have internal data that they want to track. What tools do we use to store this data? Hateful Microsoft Access? … Continue reading →

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2016-01: Disaster Recovery

Posted on 10 January 2016 by Marc

Location:  The Working Centre 58 Queen Street South, Kitchener, ON (plan) Date: January 11, 2016 Time: 7:00 PM Sometimes, disaster strikes: lightning, fire, floods or other traumas can wipe out our IT infrastructure. How can we protect against losing everything? … Continue reading →

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2015-12 : Collaborative Editing Tools

Posted on 10 December 2015 by Marc

Location:  The Working Centre 58 Queen Street South, Kitchener, ON (plan) Date: 14 Dec 2015 Many organizations have internal data that they want to track. What tools do we use to store this data? Hateful Microsoft Access? MySQL? A web … Continue reading →

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2015-11: Out of Band Management

Posted on 1 November 2015 by Marc

Location:  The Working Centre 58 Queen Street South, Kitchener, ON (plan) Date: 09 Nov 2015 Out of band management : how do you manage servers when the servers are not directly accessible? What tools and technologies do you use? Under … Continue reading →

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2015-10: Data Migration

Posted on 1 October 2015 by Marc

Location:  The Working Centre 58 Queen Street South, Kitchener, ON (plan) Date: 19 Oct 2016 We’ll meet to discuss different data migrations we have worked on. Some possibilities include: – Migrating between mail servers (eg upgrading Exchange, moving from GroupWise … Continue reading →

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2015-09: Backups

Posted on 1 September 2015 by Marc

Location:  The Working Centre 58 Queen Street South, Kitchener, ON (plan) Date: 21 Sep 2016 What do you care about when doing your backups? What backup products and workflows do you use? What products do you use to synchronize backups? … Continue reading →

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2015-08: All About VoIP

Posted on 1 August 2015 by Marc

Location:  The Working Centre 58 Queen Street South, Kitchener, ON (plan) Date: 17 Aug 2015 During August’s meeting we will talk about Voice over IP for nonprofits. Who is using it? What solutions are we using? What providers do we … Continue reading →

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