Thursday, March 14, 2013

The March AITP Meeting will be "Enterprise Network from the Ground Up" and will start at 8am and hope to finish at 4pm, on Saturday, March 16th at ITT, 1120 N 103rd Plaza, Suite 200 in Omaha. (If you need directions, let me know!) Lunch will be served from 12:00noon to 1:00pm.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

February Meeting Topic

The topic for the next meeting will be "CrashPlan" with guest Kiley Auten.

The meeting will start at 1pm.

See you there!


Tuesday, February 12, 2013

January 2013 Meeting

I'm sorry this is so late. I have been very busy.

The January 2013 meeting had Mike Beltran talking about the Managed Services Products, specifically, the Cloud Platform. Mike took us through a few of the many features of this program. It will allow you to manage and service your networks, even remotely. This program will allow you to configure settings, set updates, and create and work on trouble tickets on the entire network.

Some of the features include: Settings, System Log, Service Modules, Alerts Categories and Schedules and Policy Sets and Modules. Their Cisco router can also be remotely adjusted if necessary. It will also allow you to email service tickets to technicians at any time.

This cloud platform will also allow you to see what printers are working, off line, levels of ink and even paper jams. This would really help if you notice a problem before any kind of ticket or phone call comes in. Talk about being proactive!

With the ease of use for this program, it is easy to see why it is gaining in popularity. The capability to configure and troubleshoot firewalls, network services, file servers, email servers and backups makes this a real contender in the Networking world.

Thank you, Mike, for showing us what this can do!!

The next AITP Meeting will be Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 1pm at ITT Technical Institute. When I find out what the topic will be, I will post it.

See you there!

Friday, January 18, 2013

January Meeting

The January 2013 meeting will be Saturday, January 19, 2013 at 1pm.

The December 2012 meeting was just installing Server 2012. But there were issues (hiccups) during the installation for several members, so nothing was really discussed.

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Our December AITP meeting will be on the 15th of December 2012, 
from 12:45 to 2 PM.
 
We will revisit Windows Server 2012

Monday, December 3, 2012

I am very sorry this has taken me so long to get this posted. I've have family issues that wouldn't allow me to get this.

Our November 17, 2012 meeting was a lesson in adding a hard drive to a computer that was purchased from ITT. One of the issues was the need for the proper cable to attach the hard drive to the motherboard. Mark McCoy showed us what we needed to watch for and then got the hard drive installed.

This was a very short meeting. Thank you Mark McCoy for your time!!!

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Our October 20, 2012 meeting had a guest speaker talking to us about his life after attending classes at ITT. Nick Collins has had a very interesting career! He is currently a Senior Project Manager for HP Global Real estate Group. He is involved in consolidating HP facilities, and designing & installation of hardware in new and referbished buildings. He said that learning how to read blueprints was his biggest learning curve. Nick works mostly from home but travels to various locations in the US and several countries, including Brazil, Asia, Panama, Greece, Singapore and Belgium. He does Project Management in all of the locations.

One of the topics he touched on was what to do in a job. His biggest suggestions were to: ask questions, seem curious, be confident when interviewing and prove that you can fit into a team. Working on your own is good, but you need to be flexible and be able to work within a team.

His discussions with several attendees were also very interesting. He has great insight in many areas. We thank him for his time and hope he can come back to visit us again.

Our next meeting will be November 17, 2012. See you there!