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2016 Potomac Regional VMUG USERCON – March 24, 2016

March 21, 2016 By DCVMUG Webmaster Leave a Comment

The 2016 Potomac Regional VMware User Group (VMUG) USERCON is this week – Thursday, March 24th, 2016 in Arlington, VA!  Join the DC, Maryland and Virginia VMware User Group community for this free all day event.

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5 Reasons to Attend the Potomac Regional VMUG UserCon

  1. Special keynote presentation by Chris Wolf, VP & CTO, Americas at VMware
  2. Hear insider updates from VMware experts during technical sessions
  3. Find solutions to your next problem from over 30 VMware partners
  4. Interact with panelists and speakers sharing real-world customer case studies and product demonstrations in the Demo Zone
  5. Amazing giveaways including a VMworld Pass, Pluralsight Trainings, Amazon Gift Cards, and more – just for spending your day with VMUG!

Event Details:
Thursday, March 24, 2016
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Renaissance Arlington Capital View
2800 South Potomac Avenue
Arlington, VA 22202
Click here to get directions

Click here to view the Event Agenda

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DC VMUG – Connect with your Community!

February 18, 2015 By Josh Townsend

Your DC VMUG leadership team is working hard on a couple events this spring, with a local meeting sponsored by PernixData on Feb 19th and an all day regional (DC, MD, VA) VMUG UserCon on April 16, 2015, with more events coming later in the year.  We want to make sure that you, our community, stay up to date with our events!  We have several ways to engage with the community – pick the ones that you like best!

vmug-heads-125The DC VMUG Workspace on the VMUG website is where we share files (presentations from meetings), updates on events and notes from your leaders.  If you’re a VMUG member, you should make sure you have an account on the Workspace – the same account is used to subscribe to the VMUG Advantage program (which now includes a ton of software for you to use in your lab through the new EVALExperience!)

dcvmuglogo1The DCVMUG.com website links you to all of our resources and social media sites.  It also provides links to our generous sponsors and information on how to sponsor a local DC VMUG meeting.  The site has an RSS feed if you like to keep tabs on info through a feed reader.

 

twitter_square-125Our Twitter account @DCVMUG is the most frequently updated source of information – event updates, industry news, local VMware events.  We RT our tweets to minimize the chance of you missing an update, but tweets are coming fast and furious these days so make sure you keep an eye on another source of information.  Note that there is also a @NoVAVMUG account left over from years ago when we were talking about splitting the group into smaller DC and VA groups so our members didn’t have to deal with the mess that is DC traffic!  Stick with the @DCVMUG account for updates!

linkedin-iconFor those of you who like to keep your professional world separate from your personal, there’s a LinkedIn group for the DC VMUG.  Join the group for discussions, event updates and virtualization related job leads.  Please note that this is a new group on LinkedIn (as of February 2015) – if you’re a member of the old group make sure you switch over to this new official one!

 

We have a Facebook page and a Facebook group.  The page is where the real action is, so make sure you like it, but feel free to join the group too as it is a place to have more personal conversations with your local VMware community!  The DC VMUG website feeds the page, so you’ll get all of our updates there.

 

googleplusiconThere’s a Google+ Page too.  The content here is also fed from the DC VMUG website, so just like the Facebook page you’ll get all our updates by +’ing us (and Google likes it when you have a G+ account for search engine optimization).

 

We look forward to connecting with you!

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Check out the VMware Mobile Knowledge Portal App

March 20, 2014 By Josh Townsend Leave a Comment

During the last DC VMUG, I mentioned the VMware Mobile Knowledge Portal app.  There was quite a bit of interest, so I thought that I would link to it here.  The VMware Mobile Knowledge Portal app provides access to VMware published content, and other rich media. You can use this application to watch a growing list of view helpful demos, installation/how-to videos, read product whitepapers, and benefit from expert advice. Content can be pulled down for off-line access so you can view on your commute or while waiting around for installations to complete (content > progress bars).


Prepare to interact with your peers at the next VMUG by checking out the VMKP.
     

I also mentioned a few other resources that you can use to get up to speed on VMware solutions including:

The VMware Product Walkthroughs (PWT) page at https://featurewalkthrough.vmware.com/.  The PWT site contains a ton of content that walk you through VMware products from high-level concepts to basic procedures designed to get you ready to deploy products in Proof of Concept environments quickly.VMware Product Walkthroughs (PWT)

The VMware Hands on Labs (HOL) at https://hol.vmware.com/.  These are the same labs that are delivered at VMworld, accessible to anyone, anywhere, any time.  The HOLs give you stick time with VMware products, walking through installation and configuration, as well as various use case scenarios with multiple products.  The HOLs have proved popular with many folks; in face, HOL stats for 2013 include: 39 unique lab topics with a combined 207 lab modules.  There were 113,000 labs delivered in the 2013 season amounting to 4.3 million minutes of lab time.

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I’m on the VMware Technical Marketing team responsible for maintaining these resources, so if you have any feedback feel free to reach out.  You can get to me through social media or any of the contact methods I have here: https://vmtoday.com/contact/.

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vExperts 2010

June 17, 2010 By Josh Townsend Leave a Comment

The VMware vExpert Award is given to individuals who have significantly contributed to the community of VMware users over the past year. vExperts are book authors, bloggers, VMUG leaders, tool builders, and other IT professionals who share their knowledge and passion with others. These vExperts have gone above and beyond their day jobs to share their technical expertise and communicate the value of VMware and virtualization to their colleagues and community.

This year, several members of the Washington DC Metro Area VMware User Group (VMUG) were honored with VMware vExpert awards.

Josh Townsend VMUG Co-Leader

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Josh manages the IT group at Tiber Creek Consulting, where he also serves as the virtualization practice lead.  Josh has been working with VMware solutions since 2002.  Josh was honored with VMware’s vExpert award for 2010.  Josh blogs on VMware related topics at https://vmtoday.com.  Follow Josh on Twitter @joshuatownsend.  Josh maintains https://dcvmug.com.  Email Josh with questions or comments – joshuatownsend at gmail.com

Jason Langone – VMUG Co-Leader

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Jason is a highly regarded virtualization professional.  Jason blogs at https://thinkvirt.com. Jason was honored with VMware’s vExpert award for a second consecutive year (2009, 2010) and has receive numerous other awards and recognition for his VMware expertise.  Follow Jason on Twitter @langonej.

Kanuj Behl

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Kanuj is a Virtualization architect from the Northern Virginia / DC Metro area. Kanuj blogs at https://vmwise.com.  Follow Kanuj on Twitter @vmwise.

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VMworld 2010

June 17, 2010 By Josh Townsend Leave a Comment

VMworld 2010, hosted by VMware, gives you unparalleled access to educational opportunities that will show you how to reduce IT complexity, and enable IT as a service through virtualization and cloud computing. Join us to…

Learn
Select from Breakout Sessions and Hands on Labs that cover topics such as leveraging the public cloud, virtualizing enterprise applications and managing desktops as a service.

Engage
Meet one on one with Knowledge Experts or join group discussions to learn and share with peers and industry experts.

Network
Visit industry-leading technology partners showcasing complementary solutions that can help you dramatically reduce your IT complexity.

New This Year

More Labs – Self Paced
All Labs are self-paced so you have more freedom and options to choose from.

No Session Registration
No need to pre-register this year. You’ll have ample opportunity to attend the sessions of your choice as each one will be repeated at least twice.

Knowledge Experts
Collaborate with industry leading subject matter experts in sessions, discussions and one-on-one meetings.

Visit https://vmworld.com for more info and to register for this event!

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vSphere Update 2 Issues with View & PCoIP

June 17, 2010 By Josh Townsend Leave a Comment

VMware became aware of an issue affecting users of VMware View after applying Update 2 to their ESX 4.0 hosts. The problem only effects PCoIP, RDP works normally. There is a discussion of the problem in the VMware Communities here.

While our IT Teams work to resolve the issue, the Knowledge Base Team has responded by creating an up-to-the-minute live document at: https://kb.vmware.com/kb/1022830 and using @vmwarecares and @vmwarekb Twitter accounts to alert customers.

This Knowledge Base article will be updated as new information becomes available. If you have been affected by this, please read the KB.

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