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| August 18, 2009 | 11:00 - 12:15 | DCC Room 170 | Jeff Crawford Manager of Networking and Security East Grand Rapids Public Schools | | All Things Imaging: Including but not limited to Hardware Independent Windows Imaging, Linux Imaging, and Server Imaging | |
| August 18, 2009 | 11:00 - 12:15 | DCC Room 160 | Mike Grady | Gracon | Life Without Novell’s Client | Did you know that you can eliminate the Novell client from your network and still utilize all the Novell services currently in place? Yes of course there is “desk checking” in order to make this work. This session will walk you through how to get there. By utilizing a few additional tools, like Domain Services For Windows and maybe ZCM most IT shops can eliminate the notorious Novell client software. |
| August 18, 2009 | 11:00 - 12:15 | PCC, Board Room | Paul Hillman, Partner, Director of Client Relationships | CDH | How to Spend on IT When You Have No Budget | Are all your projects on hold? Has your budget been cut to the bone? Can't move ahead until the economy improves? Hear fresh ideas that will move you ahead in IT without spending more money. These are not concepts that vendors or resellers will ever share with you. Because C/D/H does not sell hardware or software, we are independent and vendor agnostic. Our goal is not to sell you more technology, but to save you money using the technology you already have. Concepts to be shared during this seminar: . Extend the life of slow workstations using virtualized computing platforms . Eliminate overlapping and/or redundant software licensing . Reduce or eliminate travel costs between offices . Simplify IT administration with best practices and free tools . Server count reduction saving power, cooling, and space Session attendees will learn cost cutting tips as well as determine if they qualify for an IT Operational Cost Cutting Audit. Tired of just waiting for the economy to turn around? Now you can do something that will really help your company. |
| August 18, 2009 | 11:00 - 12:15 | DCC Room 150 | Rusty Yonkers | Atomic SuperGeek | School groups earning money with SmugMug | With the budget crunch schools are facing now how can groups like the Band boosters, drama club, and the football team more easily fund the programs? This session will show how you can use SmugMug and photos from family and friends to generate income for the programs easily. |
| August 18, 2009 | 11:00-12:15 | PCC, President's Dinning | Steven Tharp, Davenport University | Messaging Architects | Simplify Email Archiving and eDiscovery and Save Your University Money: Davenport Shows You the Way | Join guest speaker Steven Tharp from Davenport University for an informative walk-through of how they reduced the cost and complexity of email archiving and eDiscovery by providing a centralized repository for all their electronic records with M+Archive. You will be able to see various tools for instantaneous search and retrieval of archived data and how they can be used by the IT staff, the legal counsel, and by the administrative staff. |
| August 18, 2009 | 11:00 - 12:15 | PCC, Hickory West | Val Vasquez | Quest | Top 10 things you need to know before moving to Active Directory and what to do once you get there | As users contemplate a change from Novell to Microsoft, questions often arise around how best to mitigate the pain experienced by their end users, in an effort to make the transition seamless. This session will cover different strategies for dealing with the transfer of data and permissions to a Windows based platform, and how to enhance the available management tools to more closely resemble the functions available to you in NDS. |
| August 18, 2009 | 2:00 - 3:15 | PCC, Hickory West | Dennis Bugeja | LANDesk | | |
| August 18, 2009 | 2:00 - 3:15 | PCC, Board Room | GWAVA | GWAVA | | |
| August 18, 2009 | 2:00 - 3:15 | DCC Room 170 | Jeff Crawford Manager of Networking and Security East Grand Rapids Public Schools | | Why Every Education Institution Should Use A Standards Based Network Access Control Solution | |
| August 18, 2009 | 2:00 - 3:15 | PCC, President's Dining | Kevin Bachert | Novell | Where are your assets? | |
| August 18, 2009 | 2:00 - 3:15 | DCC Room 140 | Nate Baum | Microsoft | Sharepoint | |
| August 18, 2009 | 3:30 - 4:45 | DCC Room 140 | Rusty Yonkers | Atomic SuperGeek | LDAP programming | This session will show how to access LDAP directories such as eDir and Active Directory using popular programming languages such as VBScript and PHP. Working examples will be shown as well as discussions on how to use these skills to better troubleshoot the directories. A web based company phone directory will also be shown. |
| August 18, 2009 | 3:30 - 4:45 | DCC Room 160 | Tom Goodson | Omega-Link software | Data validation on a PHP website | |
| August 18, 2009 | 8:45 - 9:00 | PCC, The Willow Room | Mary Matthews | WMNUG | Welcome | |
| August 18, 2009 | 9:00 - 10:30 | PCC, The Willow Room | Dean Lythgoe Director GroupWise Teaming & Conferencing | Novell | Keynote | |
| August 19, 2009 | 1:00 - 2:15 | DCC Room 160 | Joe Kawano | LifeTrain, LLC | Using the Internet to find that next job | |
| August 19, 2009 | 1:00 - 2:15 | DCC Room 140 | Mary Matthews | Calvin College | Successfully enforcing email and drive space quotas on users | |
| August 19, 2009 | 10:30 - 11:45 | PCC, President's Dining | Mike Grady | Gracon | Migration, Virtualization and High Availability | Novell is delivering cost effective solutions for migrating, virtualizing (using XEN) and clustering using Novell Clustering Services. This allows IT departments to better utilize ad consolidate their resources. Let us show you the tools available to migrate from NetWare or Windows to Open Enterprise Server 2. We will present case studies of our customers that are currently utilizing the XEN virtualization, SANs and Novell Clustering to build robust datacenters with high availability failover. We will discuss how these customers migrated, some reasons why they did and how they are operating now. |
| August 19, 2009 | 10:30 - 11:45 | DCC Room 160 | Rusty Yonkers | Atomic SuperGeek | Using LDAP tools with Active Directory | This session is all about exposing the "inner workings" of Active Directory as well as how to get useful reports and such from the directory. There will also be talk on how to populate and administer attributes that Active Directory Users and Computers does not expose. |
| August 19, 2009 | 10:30-11:45 AM | DCC Room 140 | Mary Matthews | Calvin College | 10 things I like about OpenOffice | |
| August 19, 2009 | 10:30 - 12:30 | DCC Room 170 | Messaging Architects | Messaging Architects | Michigan State University (College of Vet) Shares an Innovative and Efficient Way to Eliminate Email Threats with Zero Management | This session features guest speaker Steve Bogdanski from Michigan State University, who will explain how he was able to optimize his IT operations by replacing manual email content filtering management with auto-updates and virtually zero day-to-day administration using M+Guardian. In addition to keeping his email system free of spam and virus threats, M+Guardian has enhanced the security of his collaboration environment by providing outbound data leak prevention, while allowing users the flexibility of receiving and sharing the information they choose to. |
| August 19, 2009 | 3:30 - 4:30 | PCC, The Willow Room | Mary Matthews | WMNUG | Closing notes and door prize drawings | |
| August 19, 2009 | 9:00 - 10:15 | PCC, Board Room | Dennis Bugeja | LANDesk | | |
| August 19, 2009 | 9:00 - 10:15 | DCC Room 170 | Rusty Yonkers | Atomic SuperGeek | Creating an awesome media center | This fun session will show you how to make an absolutely incredible media center. We will look at several different software options on different operating systems to do this. You can bring Internet media like Hulu and YouTube to your TV along with music, photos, DVD, etc. This is like AppleTV on steroids. This can be useful for both home and school/business where you need to be able to get multimedia content on a television or projector. |
| August 19, 2009 | 9:00-10:30 | DCC Room 170 | Marc Coppins | | Make sure people find your site through Search Engine Optimization | You can have the best website on the Internet, but if it does not show up in a search you will not be found. Marc Coppins will show you how to optimize your website so that it will move near to or at the top of any search engine that people use. He has years of experience in SEO. Find out what you can do to get your website noticed. |
