| ID no. |
Topic/theme |
Presenter |
Presentation |
| Workshop Description |
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1 |
Building High Security Networks |
Ben Smith, Senior Security Strategist, Microsoft Security Strategies Team |
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| Building computer networks that require a high degree of security
takes an immense amount of forethought and consideration.
In this workshop, Ben Smith - Senior Security Strategist at Microsoft - will
detail general rules, best practices, and strategies for building highly
protected networks that you can use in your organization.
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2 |
Which Linux? |
Barry Cornelius, OSS Watch |
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| DistroWatch reports that there are over 300 distributions of Linux.
Each has a different feature set, user community and development community.
Clearly it is not a case of one size fits all. It would be interesting to
learn whether the UK universities tend to adopt the same feature set and
distribution. Coming closer to home, what is the feature set and distribution
of choice for Oxford departments? This workshop summarizes recent
research undertaken locally by OSS Watch
(http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk),
which will contribute to a national survey this autumn.
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3 |
Open Source Content Management Systems |
Stephen Morgan, Managing Director of Squiz.net in the UK |
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| An Open Source Content Management System (MySource Matrix)
is now being used by Oxford University Libraries Systems and Electronic
Resources Services and The School of Archaeology to build and manage
their websites. I will deliver a practical, step by step guide on how to
implement an Open Source CMS. The workshop will include an overview of
the resources required and the costs involved.
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4 |
Oxford-Google Digitization Project |
Frances Boyle, Electronic Resources Manager, SERS |
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| A general overview of the recently announced mass-digitization project
between the University and Google, Inc. The project is at the planning
stage and the work is ongoing between OULS and Google to put in place a
robust workflow.
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5 |
Higher Education Role Analysis (HERA) |
John Dickson and Sarah Haworth, OU Personnel Services |
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| From August 2006 the University will have a single new pay and grading structure
and the HERA job evaluation scheme will be used to grade jobs.
This talk will provide an introduction to HERA.
It will cover the development of the scheme, provide a description of its components,
and an explanation of how it operates.
There will be an opportunity to ask how HERA will be used to evaluate IT roles.
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6 |
Enterprise Storage Solutions in IMSU |
Tim Shaw, IMSU |
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| A look at how IMSU (Clinical School Information Management Services Unit)
has implemented data storage and backup solutions including a look at SAN
(Storage Area Network) technologies and some of the solutions IMSU has used
in providing data storage for the Division of Medicine.
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7 |
Supercomputing in Oxford University |
Jon Lockley, Oxford Supercomputing Centre |
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| A look at the facilities provided by the Oxford Supercomputing Centre
(OSC) and how they fit into the national and local structures for high
performance computing. We'll discuss the challenges of managing the
centre's systems, what they are being used for and explain how to gain
access to them. Finally, we'll describe plans for the expansion of the OSC
and how Oxford's research community can and indeed should influence the
centre's future.
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8 |
Installing and Configuring WebAuth |
Stephen Quinney, OUCS |
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| In this workshop, we give a brief overview of the WebAuth protocol
and a demonstration of WebAuth in action.
We then move on to describe the steps required to set up WebAuth on your
own Apache2 web server, and demonstrate installation of Apache2 and WebAuth
on a Debian GNU/Linux server and configuration for use with the Oxford WebAuth service.
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9 |
OSIRIS Client Software |
Niall Hedderley, Central Admin MIS |
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| Some additional applications have recently been made available to Departmental OSIRIS users.
These additional applications - Discoverer and ADI - both give OSIRIS users additional
views of their financial data. This worklshop is itended to look at some of the
technical aspects of both Discoverer and ADI for Departmental IT staff
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10 |
The Freedom of Information and Data Protection Acts |
Tony Brett, OUCS |
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| This workshop will give an overview of the Data Protection Act 1998
and the Freedom of Information Act 2000. We will look at the most
important points of each act, what they mean for the UK HE community
and how the two acts interact with each other.
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11 |
Networking Made Easy |
John Ireland, Jesus College |
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| Want to know your switch from your hub?
Your router from your firewall? Then this is the workshop for you!
- A beginners' guide to real data networks:
from cables and equipment to design and diagnostics.
We will take a look at a typical college network,
focussing on the things you need to know for basic network
support and administration.
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12 |
Taming the User |
Katherine Craddock & Peter Higginbotham |
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| When an IT expert is asked to help with a user's problems, it is not
uncommon for much time to be wasted solving the wrong problem, discussing
irrelevant details or performing tasks a user really ought to do themselves.
Peter and Katherine provide effective strategies gleaned from their combined
40 years of user support experience. The workshop deals with techniques for
getting to the crux of a problem quickly and encouraging the users to help
themselves. Tips will also be provided on time-management when helping users
and on dealing with difficult user types.
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13 |
Firewalls, Securing Networks (Automated Computer Registration) |
Steve Kersley |
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| This workshop looks at the creation of an automated system to allow
students to register their computers on the College network: the needs,
the decisions taken during design and the final implementation as well as
looking at how it can be expanded.
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14 |
Installing a wireless network for University members |
Oliver Gorwits, OUCS |
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OUCS has developed a wireless service for University members.
As the service makes use of the existing VPN infrastructure, it is known as OWL-VPN.
This workshop will be a technical presentation addressing how you might go about
installing an OWL-VPN service. Apart from a brief summary, there will be no repeat
of last year's wider consideration of wireless networking technology and issues.
The workshop will conclude with a demonstration of OUCS's wireless developments
for visitors to the University, including account management, sign-on procedures,
and deployment requirements.
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15 |
WebLearn - Recent Developments |
Adam Marshall, OUCS |
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| This session includes a description of the recent and up-coming
features of the Bodington VLE (known locally as Weblearn). Topics:
RSS Feeds / Blogging, visual access control display, announcements,
open URL reading lists, notifications, skills profiling, Shibboleth
Identity Provider (Origin), integration with LAMS and TOIA,
integration with Moodle, and IMS Enterprise (web) services.
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16 |
ISIDORE Update for IT Staff |
John Jenkins, OUCS |
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| There will be an update on the roll out of ISIDORE
Graduate Admissions to the University. Further work in 2005
and its impact will be covered.
Technical and other issues that affect IT staff and the project
will be the key part of this workshop.
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17 |
Mac OS X Tiger Server |
James Partridge, OUCS |
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| This workshop will give an overview of new and improved features
in Tiger server (including Kerberos & Kerberised services, managing Windows
clients, secure iChat / Instant Messaging server & local software update
services).
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