Gaggle has a cross platform e-mail archiving product (that means it works with GroupWise as well as some of the other less known e-mail servers). What makes it different from most e-mail archiving products in the market is that it's a hosted solution. No HW investment on your end.
PART 1 - Brian Six from Novell presents Teaming+Conferencing. Improvement over SharePoint especially after Novell announcing the purchase of SiteScape. Also see the open source side ICEcore.
PART 2 - Brian Six -Thursday AM March 27- will also do 1/2 day HANDS ON install and admin class on Teaming+Conferencing. Exact details will be worked out in a week or so but I need to get the word out to everyone ASAP so we know how many people to plan for.
A lot going on at Novell - check out the Press Room.
Alan Perry is a kernel/embedded software engineer for Sun and will be discussing one of Sun's contributions to the Open Source world the ZFS File System. (Come see how it compares to NSS pools - which I believe is NOT open source. Also, don't expect Alan to know anything about Novell's NSS -introduced 1998 Netware 5) As usual, a little reading will better prepare you.
For ten years Steve has written and consulted about wireless TCP/IP, ISP services including Broadband Wireless Internet Access (BWIA), WiMAX, Wi-Fi. See his web-site for details.
Steve StrohNovell Open Enterprise Server 2 Product Seminar: 6-hour presentation of OES 2 installation and features. Hands-on, the seminar introduces features such as Xen virtualization, DFS Junctions, Dynamic Storage Technology (DST), Archiving and Versioning, Novell iFolder 3.6, and Novell iManager 2.7. other details ALSO, Kaleidoscope Consulting is doing a drawing and sending that person's name to Novell and have a chance to win an all-expense paid trip to Brainshare 2008.
Channing Quist - Novell/SUSE sales Rep for Northwest
SuSE Linux desktop
If you have other topics you would like included in this or future sessions please Email serreze@foxinternet.net
We will have SuSE 10.2 installed on the systems in the classroom. If you would like to bring your own system to install SuSE on, assistance will be available during the afternoon "lab" session.
The New Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: IT Obligations for Email
Craig Brauff from Erado will be giving us an update on how FRCP potential effects most shops.
Saturday, March 3, 2007 (8:30 AM - 4:00 PM)
Third and last in a series of three workshops on Linux. This series of workshops will start again in May. The focus of this session will continue to be the SuSE Linux desktop.
If you have other topics you would like included in this or future sessions, please let us know.
We will have SuSE 10.2 installed on the systems in the classroom. If you would like to bring your own system to install SuSE on, assistance will be available during the afternoon lab session.
Venue Details:
Kaleidoscope Consulting
515 116th Avenue NE, Suite 280
Bellevue, Washington 98008
For more details about this event, including maps, comments, and other attendees, visit the event page at upcoming.org
GroupWise - Bonsai - find out what is the next step
Sam Tingleff review BrainShare 2007 and talk about his recent experience with Asterisk
Not to be confused with: http://www.sr.bham.ac.uk/asterix/ nor http://gb.asterix.com/
Morning - Introduction to SUSE Linux
Join us for a demonstration of Visual Click's management/security suite for:
Visual Click will be providing free snacks, as well as multipurpose 25-piece tri-fold toolkits for all attendees.
Visual Click Software provides Network Administrators with software tools to secure, delegate, administer and audit eDirectory/NDS, GroupWise and NetWare File Systems and Active Directory and Windows File Systems since 1999. Presented by Christine Malik and Ken Aldrich, Senior Support Engineers.
Morning - Review of last month
Spectra Logic Corporation manufactures tape, disk and encryption libraries that save time, lower costs and reduce risks while protecting and storing data. Spectra Logic's innovative solutions make backups easier, reduce risk due to excellent support services, and expand to grow with customer needs and changing technology. Spectra Logic won several industry awards because of a solid 27-year history and commitment to better data protection.
David Rademacher : Outside Sales Executive
(425) 996-7048 office : (425) 891-6945 cell : 425-274-4809 fax
Morning - Review of previous two SUSE Saturdays
Sam Tingleff talk about his recent experience with Asterisk
Not to be confused with: http://www.sr.bham.ac.uk/asterix/ nor http://gb.asterix.com/
Michael D. Osterman, President of Osterman Research, Inc.
Part 1: Biscom Inc. will demo Linux FAXCOM Server and Linux Biscom Delivery Server.
Part 2: Linux Desktop Multiplier can run up to 10 independent, full-featured SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktops on a single PC. You still license SLED on a per-station basis, but you can save up to 80% on your hardware, management, electricity and network infrastructure costs.
Trevor Poapst, Director, Global Marketing & Channel StrategyEd and Renee will show highlights of ZENworks 7 Desktop Management - and experiences with importing workstations, imaging, policies, and applications. They have done many ZENworks implementations, and want to pass along some of what they have learned and show some features that are not always implemented (their version of best practices).
ZENworks has developed for well over a decade and to get an idea of the scope of the entire product line visit ZENworks Product Line. Come see the basics -Desktop Management- from instructors and implementors.
Morning - Review Week 1
Overview of Desktop features including Internet connections, YaST, Firefox, and other desktop applications
Afternoon - Desktop lab
Week 1: Morning - Introduction to SuSE Linux
Overview of Installation, Desktop, KDE, GNOME
Afternoon - Installation lab
Morning - Review Week 1
Overview of Desktop features including Internet connections, YaST, Firefox, and other desktop applications
Afternoon - Desktop lab
Help Desk Software -15 'More Than Meets The Eye'?
Learn how Help Desk solution can increase your IT staff productivity, transform your users from tech dependant to self-sufficient and produce critical reports you need. Also, how do you justify a help desk purchase when the IT budget is limited?
Come talk with Zach Hadley, Sales Associate of GroupLink, and learn how to benefit using a uniformed Help Desk Software and what realistic expectations you should have with a Help Desk Software solution.
Craig Brauff founder and CEO of Erado takes a full 2 hours to demo latest compliance (SOX, HIPPA, etc.) and security (virus/spam) showing off Erado's new Email centric services.
February:Randy Grein talks about audits. Lessons learned from recent network audits at Boeing.
March:Steve Stroh ,for over a decade, has written many articles and maintains his own blog on the state Broadband Wireless Internet Access. He will be updating us on the current state of BWIA in our area as well as the future trends.
April 26:Sam Tingleff of Novell will be giving us his perspective on recent announcements made at BrainShare. Then a technical presentation on Xen virtualualization.
May 31Bill Pray -product manager for Groupwise- talked about GroupWise 7 for almost 2 hours, including development road map.
June 28:Derek Kwan a Pre-Sales Systems Engineer from SonicWALL, www.sonicwall.com will be presenting SonicWALL's line of firewall products and giving us a technical overview of SSL based firewall technology.
July 26 5pm-9pm:If it is your first time attending, please try to RSVP to help us try and have enough snack food for all.
ssinghose@wccg.net
Systems Engineer from EMC Insignia will talk about data protection solutions - including backup of course. They also have a special offering for MS Exchange. This EMC group focus is SMB = Small to Medium Businesses.
September 27 - 2006:Donna Pearson -HP ProCurve Territory Manager- presents the HP ProCurve product line. Bring your hp ProCurve and ethernet swiching technical questions - systems engineer will also be present. Procurve in space - read test results - only Procurve was up to the NASA task.
October 4:TBA - check back - when we have details arranged we will post them. (any hot topic suggestions, Email Steve Singhose)
November/December - Dec 6:Tom Poitras Director of Sales, West Coast GWAVA