Tuesday 13 November 2007 Compucon House Albany Auckland
Thursday 15 November 2007 Kamo High School Whangarei

1:00pm Orientation
1:15pm Transition from Windows XP to Vista (by Microsoft)
2:15pm X Factors of Computer Systems (by Compucon)
3:30pm ICT Manager Panel Discussion (by Jonathan Beveridge)
5:00pm Close

We are taking registrations now for the seminars.  Attendance is free of charge but limited due to seating capacity.  Please register by email giving us the full names of the delegates and their positions in the school. 

Many people commented that Vista does not provide any compelling reasons to schools and that changing the platform from Windows XP to Vista will cost schools a lot and incur some complications along the way.  Microsoft New Zealand will address the issues of concern to us and possibly advise us how to transition to Vista smoothly.  We may hear about Linux from Microsoft too in this seminar. 

There are many flavours and varieties of computers and they co-exist for good reasons.  Some are fit for purposes and some are not.  Some will give school system administrators the best use of time and some will not.  We will provide an overview of the situation- physical versus virtual desktop, blade versus block, back up versus archive, private versus public; and help schools get the optimum value.

We will ask all delegates to nominate a problem for discussion and will go through them in a forum format with Jonathan as the forum leader.  This format will ensure that all delegates earn a couple of solutions that can be applied for the benefits of the school.