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January 2004
No Monthly Meeting in January

Thursday
12th February 2004
Monthly Meeting

Q&A

Novell Update by Alex Wilson (Novell SE)

Keynote 1: Novell's Enterprise Linux Services
By Alex Wilson (Novell SE)

Supper

Keynote 2: Surf Control - Novell Integration
By Justin Lai (Tech Trainer) and David Alldred (Bus Devel)

Thursday
11th March 2004
Monthly Meeting

Please Note: This month's meeting will be held in Microsoft's Melbourne Office:

9th Floor (Level 9 Theatre)
Como Centre
644 Chapel Street
South Yarra

Enter the Como Center from the corner of Toorak Road and Chapel Street. Walk past a few shops (maybe 30 metres). Then on the left you'll see an escalator up. Take this, and keep walking about 15 or so meters in to Como Tower. On the right you'll see a lift. Take this up to the 9th floor.

Q&A

Novell Update
By Chris Louloudakis (Novell System Engineer)

Supper

Keynote: Microsoft - .NET - What's it all about?
by Microsoft's Dave Glover

Thursday
8th April 2004
Monthly Meeting

Q&A

Novell Update by Novell System Engineers

Keynote 1: Novell Identity Manager Demonstration
- by Chris Louloudakis (Novell System Engineer)

Heterogeneous computing environments make it a challenge for organizations to maintain security while providing access to resources. Novell's NSure Identity Management solutions help address these challenges, and provide users one login credential to access resources.

This session will present the roadmap for Identity Manager and its related technologies. It will also introduce Identity Manager 2, including features like integration, password administration, workflow management, and self-service. Attendees will see Identity Manager features and look at new technologies used for deployment.

Supper

Keynote 2: Special Novell Salt Lake City BrainShare Update
- All the latest news from Novell's premier event
- by Novell System Engineers

Thursday
13th May 2004
Monthly Meeting

Q&A

Novell Update by Novell System Engineers

Keynote 1: Pacific Internet Australia
- Dennis Muscat, Managing Director (Australia), will present on:
"Australia: The regional broadband laggard"
- An insight into the Asia-Pacific broadband experience

Broadband internet access delivers global connectivity and powerful e-commerce capabilities to business and residential users - but in Australia we're playing catch-up.

In this presentation, Dennis Muscat, Pacific Internet Australia's managing director, will provide an insight into recent developments in the Australia broadband market - including the market war that has erupted since Telstra Retail and Telstra Wholesale dropped their broadband DSL prices. He will also share the experience of key Asian counterparts, where broadband winners have been propelled by competition at the infrastructure level and by proactive government involvement.

- Phil Tsakaros, National Tech Manager, will also give a short talk on the Internet's physical infrastructure in Australia.

- Plus great Pacific Internet give-aways

Supper

Keynote 2: SMS eTechnologies
- Providers of GWAVA, GWAVIX and Guinevere
- Raymond Tia (Tech Support) will present on:
"Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus Strategies for Corporate Email Systems"

Impact of Virus and Email Threat (ethreat)

Outsource vs In-house AV/AS system

Gateway protection vs MTA & Post Office Protection

Technical Overview of Gwava

- Plus even more great give-aways including:

"The GroupWise 6.5 Upgrade Guide on CD" (x 3)
- Published by Caledonia Network Press
- Worth $50.00 (US) each!

"Freeware Foundation" (x 3)
- Useful tools for GroupWise Administrators

Plus Beginfinite T-Shirts, Pens, Mouse Pads, Eval CDs, Etc

Thursday
10th June 2004
Monthly Meeting

Q&A

Novell Update by Novell System Engineers
By Alex Wilson (Novell SE)

Keynote 1: Novell - "Groupwise on Linux"
By Alex Wilson (Novell SE)

Supper

Keynote 2: "Network Box"
By Andrew Tune (Network Box) & Marc Heymann (Austnet)

They will present their fully managed gateway security Service offering.

Network Box offer a Fully Managed Alternative to Internet Security & Risk.

With 7 x 24 x 365 monitoring, Network Box have an automated service which monitors all activity on your Internet Gateway Appliance, Keeping it tuned, Keeping it up to date, & responding to ANY suspicious activity. Professional security engineers in manning their NOC's world wide can intervene to manage any issue arising at individual sites.

The Network Box managed solution provides an appliance that includes ALL the software to deal with all key current vulnerabilities traversing to your gateway from the Internet including:

Firewall
Intrusion Detection & Intrusion Prevention
Anti Virus at the Internet gateway (you still need Anti Virus inside your network)
Anti Spam
URL filtering and management
Content filtering on eMail and Internet access
Secure VPN connectivity
Quality of Service provisioning
DMZ
Monitors the Appliance Hardware
Immediate patch updating of software as new vulnerabilities occur
Weekly in depth Management Reports on all gateway activity
(Reports: Viruses stopped, Hacks prevented, Top Sites visited, etc)
The cost of this service ranges from the entry level $500 per month ($115 per week / $17 per day)

Thursday
8th July 2004
Monthly Meeting

Q&A

Novell Update by Novell System Engineers
By Chris Louloudakis (Novell SE)

Keynote: "Authentication - Steel Belted Radius"
By Mark Winter (inTechnology Australia)
RADIUS and WLAN Security Solutions for Novell users
Learn how you can use Funk Software RADIUS to:

Authenticate WLAN, remote access/VPN, or wired 802.1X users against eDirectory, no matter how you've set it up, regardless of its size or structure

Implement a WLAN security solution that's fully compatible with your Novell systems

Enable single network logon for WLAN users running the Novell Client for Windows; flexible logon options support any requirement. All other 802.1X clients require users to log in both to the Novell Client and the 802.1X client

Centralize the management and security of all the WLAN, wired 802.1X, and remote/VPN users in your organization, to streamline maintenance and enhance the security of your network

Quickly deploy secure WLAN and wired 802.1X access across Windows XP, 2000, 98, Me, Pocket PC 2002, and Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC - using Odyssey Client's pre-configuration and deployment tools

Secure and manage user access, regardless of WLAN, remote/VPN, or wired 802.1X access equipment you choose to run

Use the same 802.1X client to support both wired and wireless users - no need for two separate solutions

Implement features such as support for grace logins and SSL encryption of authentication requests between Steel-Belted Radius and eDirectory, allowing you to get the most out of your Novell investment.

Supper

Thursday
12th August 2004
Monthly Meeting

Q&A

Novell Update by Novell System Engineers

Keynote: "Solving End-User Performance issues in a WAN Environment"
By Brett Wallace and Brian McGee (Compuware)

Everyone can relate to the application that, when rolled into production, produces end-user response times that bear no resemblance to those found in the test lab environment. Traditional functional and load testing regimes pay little or no attention to the effects of deploying an application over a Wide Area Network.

The solution to this problem is to understand what affects application performance on the WAN and to introduce a step in the application lifecycle that profiles business transactions in test and/or production that measures application performance.

This process will allow the organisation to answer some or all of these questions:-

Will this application be able to meet the end-user (business) performance requirements?

How can I ensure that my network infrastructure can support these requirements at deployment time?

Which component of the integrated system will be the bottleneck once the application is deployed?

How can I architect or tune that component, and what will be the resulting improvement in end-user response time?

How much will the desired performance cost?

Brett Wallace and Brian McGee will outline the application characteristics that result in poor end-user response time and will present the approach that Compuware recommends for introducing Transaction Profiling and Application Performance Management into your existing processes.

Supper

Thursday
9th September 2004
Monthly Meeting

Q&A

Novell Update by Novell System Engineers

Keynote: "ZenWorks 6.5" by Alex Wilson (Novell)

Desktop and Server application
New Features
Live Demo!

Supper

Thursday
14th October 2004
Monthly Meeting

Q&A

Novell Update by Novell System Engineers

Keynote: "eCommerce, Fraud and Security" by Chris Dwyer of eMatters

Learn about eCommerce

Find out how fraud is committed over the Internet

Learn how to protect your organisation

Supper

Thursday
11th November 2004
Monthly Meeting

Q&A

Novell Update by Novell System Engineers

MNUG Annual General Meeting (AGM)

Have a say in how our group is run
Help elect our new Executive team
Better yet - Volunteer for a position!!!

Keynote: Networked Video Cameras by Matthew Blayney (Netcomm)

Supper

Thursday
9th December 2004
*** MNUG Christmas Party! ***

Excellent Food & Drinks and Great Company!!!

Venue:

Stalactites Restaurant
177-183 Lonsdale Street
(Russell Street corner)
Melbourne CBD
Ph: 9663 3316

Come and join us for a Greek Banquet!

Starting at 6:15pm

All MNUG members, friends and their guests are most welcome

Please RSVP ASAP so that we can book for the correct number of people.

Please note:

All MNUG Members' meals will be paid for by MNUG

All drinks are to be paid for individually

All guests' meals are to be paid for individually (@ $25 each)
(Hint: Sign up on the night and get a free dinner!)

Stalactites is a fully licenced restaurant, with a reasonably wide choice of beverages available, however you may bring your own wine (only) if you prefer.

The great company is FREE - so come along and be a part of it!

Back to: MNUG's Important Dates for 2003
Forward to: MNUG's Important Dates for 2005

January 2004	No Monthly Meeting in January
Thursday 12th February 2004	Monthly Meeting Q&A Novell Update by Alex Wilson (Novell SE) Keynote 1: Novell's Enterprise Linux Services By Alex Wilson (Novell SE) Supper Keynote 2: Surf Control - Novell Integration By Justin Lai (Tech Trainer) and David Alldred (Bus Devel)
Thursday 11th March 2004	Monthly Meeting Please Note: This month's meeting will be held in Microsoft's Melbourne Office: 9th Floor (Level 9 Theatre) Como Centre 644 Chapel Street South Yarra Enter the Como Center from the corner of Toorak Road and Chapel Street. Walk past a few shops (maybe 30 metres). Then on the left you'll see an escalator up. Take this, and keep walking about 15 or so meters in to Como Tower. On the right you'll see a lift. Take this up to the 9th floor. Q&A Novell Update By Chris Louloudakis (Novell System Engineer) Supper Keynote: Microsoft - .NET - What's it all about? by Microsoft's Dave Glover
Thursday 8th April 2004	Monthly Meeting Q&A Novell Update by Novell System Engineers Keynote 1: Novell Identity Manager Demonstration - by Chris Louloudakis (Novell System Engineer) Heterogeneous computing environments make it a challenge for organizations to maintain security while providing access to resources. Novell's NSure Identity Management solutions help address these challenges, and provide users one login credential to access resources. This session will present the roadmap for Identity Manager and its related technologies. It will also introduce Identity Manager 2, including features like integration, password administration, workflow management, and self-service. Attendees will see Identity Manager features and look at new technologies used for deployment. Supper Keynote 2: Special Novell Salt Lake City BrainShare Update - All the latest news from Novell's premier event - by Novell System Engineers
Thursday 13th May 2004	Monthly Meeting Q&A Novell Update by Novell System Engineers Keynote 1: Pacific Internet Australia - Dennis Muscat, Managing Director (Australia), will present on: "Australia: The regional broadband laggard" - An insight into the Asia-Pacific broadband experience Broadband internet access delivers global connectivity and powerful e-commerce capabilities to business and residential users - but in Australia we're playing catch-up. In this presentation, Dennis Muscat, Pacific Internet Australia's managing director, will provide an insight into recent developments in the Australia broadband market - including the market war that has erupted since Telstra Retail and Telstra Wholesale dropped their broadband DSL prices. He will also share the experience of key Asian counterparts, where broadband winners have been propelled by competition at the infrastructure level and by proactive government involvement. - Phil Tsakaros, National Tech Manager, will also give a short talk on the Internet's physical infrastructure in Australia. - Plus great Pacific Internet give-aways Supper Keynote 2: SMS eTechnologies - Providers of GWAVA, GWAVIX and Guinevere - Raymond Tia (Tech Support) will present on: "Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus Strategies for Corporate Email Systems" Impact of Virus and Email Threat (ethreat) Outsource vs In-house AV/AS system Gateway protection vs MTA & Post Office Protection Technical Overview of Gwava - Plus even more great give-aways including: "The GroupWise 6.5 Upgrade Guide on CD" (x 3) - Published by Caledonia Network Press - Worth $50.00 (US) each! "Freeware Foundation" (x 3) - Useful tools for GroupWise Administrators Plus Beginfinite T-Shirts, Pens, Mouse Pads, Eval CDs, Etc
Thursday 10th June 2004	Monthly Meeting Q&A Novell Update by Novell System Engineers By Alex Wilson (Novell SE) Keynote 1: Novell - "Groupwise on Linux" By Alex Wilson (Novell SE) Supper Keynote 2: "Network Box" By Andrew Tune (Network Box) & Marc Heymann (Austnet) They will present their fully managed gateway security Service offering. Network Box offer a Fully Managed Alternative to Internet Security & Risk. With 7 x 24 x 365 monitoring, Network Box have an automated service which monitors all activity on your Internet Gateway Appliance, Keeping it tuned, Keeping it up to date, & responding to ANY suspicious activity. Professional security engineers in manning their NOC's world wide can intervene to manage any issue arising at individual sites. The Network Box managed solution provides an appliance that includes ALL the software to deal with all key current vulnerabilities traversing to your gateway from the Internet including: Firewall Intrusion Detection & Intrusion Prevention Anti Virus at the Internet gateway (you still need Anti Virus inside your network) Anti Spam URL filtering and management Content filtering on eMail and Internet access Secure VPN connectivity Quality of Service provisioning DMZ Monitors the Appliance Hardware Immediate patch updating of software as new vulnerabilities occur Weekly in depth Management Reports on all gateway activity (Reports: Viruses stopped, Hacks prevented, Top Sites visited, etc) The cost of this service ranges from the entry level $500 per month ($115 per week / $17 per day)
Thursday 8th July 2004	Monthly Meeting Q&A Novell Update by Novell System Engineers By Chris Louloudakis (Novell SE) Keynote: "Authentication - Steel Belted Radius" By Mark Winter (inTechnology Australia) RADIUS and WLAN Security Solutions for Novell users Learn how you can use Funk Software RADIUS to: Authenticate WLAN, remote access/VPN, or wired 802.1X users against eDirectory, no matter how you've set it up, regardless of its size or structure Implement a WLAN security solution that's fully compatible with your Novell systems Enable single network logon for WLAN users running the Novell Client for Windows; flexible logon options support any requirement. All other 802.1X clients require users to log in both to the Novell Client and the 802.1X client Centralize the management and security of all the WLAN, wired 802.1X, and remote/VPN users in your organization, to streamline maintenance and enhance the security of your network Quickly deploy secure WLAN and wired 802.1X access across Windows XP, 2000, 98, Me, Pocket PC 2002, and Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC - using Odyssey Client's pre-configuration and deployment tools Secure and manage user access, regardless of WLAN, remote/VPN, or wired 802.1X access equipment you choose to run Use the same 802.1X client to support both wired and wireless users - no need for two separate solutions Implement features such as support for grace logins and SSL encryption of authentication requests between Steel-Belted Radius and eDirectory, allowing you to get the most out of your Novell investment. Supper
Thursday 12th August 2004	Monthly Meeting Q&A Novell Update by Novell System Engineers Keynote: "Solving End-User Performance issues in a WAN Environment" By Brett Wallace and Brian McGee (Compuware) Everyone can relate to the application that, when rolled into production, produces end-user response times that bear no resemblance to those found in the test lab environment. Traditional functional and load testing regimes pay little or no attention to the effects of deploying an application over a Wide Area Network. The solution to this problem is to understand what affects application performance on the WAN and to introduce a step in the application lifecycle that profiles business transactions in test and/or production that measures application performance. This process will allow the organisation to answer some or all of these questions:- Will this application be able to meet the end-user (business) performance requirements? How can I ensure that my network infrastructure can support these requirements at deployment time? Which component of the integrated system will be the bottleneck once the application is deployed? How can I architect or tune that component, and what will be the resulting improvement in end-user response time? How much will the desired performance cost? Brett Wallace and Brian McGee will outline the application characteristics that result in poor end-user response time and will present the approach that Compuware recommends for introducing Transaction Profiling and Application Performance Management into your existing processes. Supper
Thursday 9th September 2004	Monthly Meeting Q&A Novell Update by Novell System Engineers Keynote: "ZenWorks 6.5" by Alex Wilson (Novell) Desktop and Server application New Features Live Demo! Supper
Thursday 14th October 2004	Monthly Meeting Q&A Novell Update by Novell System Engineers Keynote: "eCommerce, Fraud and Security" by Chris Dwyer of eMatters Learn about eCommerce Find out how fraud is committed over the Internet Learn how to protect your organisation Supper
Thursday 11th November 2004	Monthly Meeting Q&A Novell Update by Novell System Engineers MNUG Annual General Meeting (AGM) Have a say in how our group is run Help elect our new Executive team Better yet - Volunteer for a position!!! Keynote: Networked Video Cameras by Matthew Blayney (Netcomm) Supper
Thursday 9th December 2004	* MNUG Christmas Party! * Excellent Food & Drinks and Great Company!!! Venue: Stalactites Restaurant 177-183 Lonsdale Street (Russell Street corner) Melbourne CBD Ph: 9663 3316 Come and join us for a Greek Banquet! Starting at 6:15pm All MNUG members, friends and their guests are most welcome Please RSVP ASAP so that we can book for the correct number of people. Please note: All MNUG Members' meals will be paid for by MNUG All drinks are to be paid for individually All guests' meals are to be paid for individually (@ $25 each) (Hint: Sign up on the night and get a free dinner!) Stalactites is a fully licenced restaurant, with a reasonably wide choice of beverages available, however you may bring your own wine (only) if you prefer. The great company is FREE - so come along and be a part of it!