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Please forgive the (now annual) shameless plug for the SAGE-AU annual
conference - http://www.sage-au.org.au/conf/ .

The System Administrators Guild of Australia are holding their Annual
Conference and Tutorials in Melbourne this year, on the 5th to the 9th
of August.

Tutorial sessions are run on the Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, and
represent excellent training value.  Tutorial topics that may interest
ISP's include:

TROUBLESHOOTING AND PROBLEM SOLVING - Elizabeth Zwicky
This tutorial presents systematic methods for troubleshooting and
problem solving, with a view to improving participants' individual
skills, and to assist in teaching effective problem solving to other
System Administrators

TOOLS FOR CREATING HAPPY USERS - Tom Limoncelli
This workshop will present technical issues that contribute to making a
good first impression on users, and maintaining that relationship.

LARGE-SCALE BACKUPS USING LEGATO NETWORKER - Shane McEwan
This tutorial provides a practical introduction to the use of Legato
Networker for managing an organisation's backups. This course will be of
benefit to System Administrators who have minimal experience with Legato
and who need to deploy an effective backup strategy using Networker.

SECURING YOUR IIS WEB SERVER - Peter Calvert
This is a half day tutorial aimed at systems administrators and web site
developers.

DOCUMENTATION TECHNIQUES FOR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATORS - Mike Ciavarella
This tutorial is targeted at System Administrators who need to produce
documentation for the systems they manage or who need to improve their
documentation skills.

DESIGNING A MACHINE ROOM - Don Gingrich
The design of a purpose-built machine room is one of the more difficult
tasks that a System Administrator can undertake since it generally
involves skills and knowledge beyond Information Technology.

IMPLEMENTING AND TUNING SQUID - Adrian Chadd
With the Internet bandwidth in Australia being charged by the byte, many
organisations need to consider ways on managing their ever-increasing
usage of the Internet. This tutorial is aimed at System Administrators
who would like to implement Squid in their organisation, or who already
have a default Squid installation and would like to improve their
cache's performance.

Other tutorials include LDAP (Bradly Marshall), Perl (Randal Schwartz),
Network Security (David Ross), Management (Geoff Halprin), Introduction
to  SNORT (Karl Hanmore), SNMP (David Ross), Centralised management of
Win2k &
XP (Peter Calvert) and Unix Shell Scripting (Mike Ciavarella).


The Thursday and Friday are conference days, and include sessions such
as: Deconstructing User Requests (Tom Limoncelli), Overview of ADSL in
Australia (Simon Hacket), LDAP, Samba & Unix Authentication (Tom
Hallam), a Keynote "The Lord of Change (or how Weta Digital prepared for
Lord of the Rings)" (Shane McEwan, Weta Digital (Lord of the Rings
graphics gurus)), Traffic Watch (internet cost accounting) (Tim Bell),
etc.

Places are filling very fast - some tutorial sessions have already sold
out. For more information, please visit http://www.sage-au.org.au/conf/

Cheers,
Andrew.

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Andrew Hennell - President

The System Administrators Guild of Australia
http://www.sage-au.org.au
GPO Box 2974 Sydney NSW 2001
Phone 03-9625-2823    Fax 03-9822-0260