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Welcome to the February edition of the ITS Feda Newsletter. The newsletter menu (below) offers quick navigation of the news articles in this email so you can quickly scan the topics and chose if you want to read more on those relevant to you. We always like communication with our customers to be two-way so please let us know about any changes you would like to see and anything you would like us to publish more information on.
• ISO 9001:2000 presentation to ITS Feda Ltd
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ISO 9001:2000 presentation to ITS Feda Ltd ITS Feda are proud to announce that at the end of January we were awarded the internationally recognised ISO 9001:2000 status. This affirmation of our continued excellent standards and commitment to service quality was welcomed by our Managing Director, Penny Price who said “This recognition of our quality processes and long term commitment to our customers is a tribute to the hard work of both management and staff”. |
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New fast, flexible, affordable storage over your IP/Ethernet Cheaper and faster than fibre channel SAN's and requiring no new infrastructure, the ITS iSCSI's advantages also include dynamic volume expansion, optional remote mirroring and storage virtualization, faster disaster recovery and with it’s 1GB/s throughput means less out of hours working for IT Staff. Available as rack mounts or expandable servers suitable for Microsoft, Linux or Apple networks.There are many more financial and operational benefits to this product. Please read more |
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ITS Free Events -Dates for your diary The ever popular ITS annual conference is back, and this year we are extending the venues! There are two dates planned, Manchester on the 26th of April and Blagdon, near Bristol, on the 27th of April. These fantastic free events offer a great chance for you to network with other IT professionals, experience new technologies and speak to a broad range of experts. Be sure to look out for your invite and the finalised agenda coming soon. |
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Novell and ITS Feda at the Savoy On Wednesday 21st February, Novell and ITS Feda jointly hosted a dinner at the Savoy in London for key representatives of the Education sector. This included representation from Schools, Colleges, and Universities as well Jisc and the Learning Skills Network. The objective of the dinner was to have an open discussion about how Novell and ITS Feda can better support the needs of the Education market. Topics discussed included the benefits of Linux and Open Source, as well as how student provisioning could be automated by Identity Management technologies. These conversations were jointly lead by Andrew Ward, Chairman of ITS Feda Ltd and John Bainbridge, Partner Sales Director, Novell Technical input was also received from Brian Green Technical Director, Novell John commented after the dinner - "It became apparent to both Novell and ITS Feda that together we are able to offer the Education market a viable alternative to Microsoft and the Education representatives are very open to Novell's new offerings" Andrew Ward said "ITS Feda are very grateful to our partners, Novell, for providing a fantastic opportunity to engage in a far-reaching and stimulating debate with those at the sharp end of IT and education. We have every confidence that together, ITS Feda and the new Novell, can increasingly meet the needs of our educational partners and do so in a way that benefits pupils and students of all ages" |
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Novell NetWare 6.5 Service Pack and patch update Following our email to helpdesk customers of 5 Jan 2007, here is some more updated information from our engineers about the issues we are aware of with Service Pack 6, along with the latest relevant patch advice for both SP5 and SP6. Read More |
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Running Windows in an XEN virtual environment Novell become the first distributor to support virtualised Windows workloads on Linux. |
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Will ZENworks be able to manage Windows Vista? Pick up a pod cast with the Novell Open Audio feed on ZENworks support for Vista and SLED10, as well as news on what the ZENworks team will be doing at BrainShare 2007 |
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10% discount offer on Microsoft SMS 2003 and XP training courses ITS Feda are delighted to offer a 10% discount on the following courses: M2596 Managing Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 M2272: Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Windows XP Professional The offer for both these 5-day courses applies to the w/c 19th March dates in our Blagdon HQ only. Please book by 5th March to ensure your place. You can book online via the above hyperlinks or contact us on 0870 145 1600 or training@itsgroup.org.uk. Full board onsite accommodation is also available. |
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Wondering about moving to Exchange Server 2007? Take a look at Microsoft’s top 10 reasons to upgrade or contact us via enquiries@itsgroup.org.uk to arrange a chat with one of our Microsoft engineers to see if this is the product for you. |
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Correction to Training Brochure Microsoft 5116 and 5117 Windows Vista configuration courses to mergeAs is always the case information came through about a change to courses in our new training guide just after it went to press. In a correction to the information on pages 15 and 16 of the guide Microsoft have announced that in response to feedback on the Beta version of these courses they will now be merged. Course 5117 will no longer exist and the content will be incorporated in course 5116 which will be extended to 2 days. We are still awaiting the updated course outline from Microsoft and will amend the information on our website as soon as we have it. Meanwhile if you would like to check out the latest on our courses online please visit www.itsgroup.org.uk/training and if you would like a training guide and have not received one please use our online request form at www.itsgroup.org.uk/training/brochure_request.aspx and we will send one out to you as quickly as possible. |
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New Microsoft Office 2007 BrainStorm cards released The range of these popular user reference cards has expanded again. Microsoft Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint 2007 cards have now been released to add to the Word 2007 card already out. A Vista desktop card will also be coming soon. These quick and affordable tools often act as a lifeline to users facing new technologies and are highly recommended by many of our clients. We have these new cards available to purchase by credit card on our website at www.itsgroup.org.uk/shop/brainstormquickstartcards along with the Office 2003 and other application ranges already up there. If you qualify for education discount or would simply like to order some by purchase order please contact us via training@itsgroup.org.uk |
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Microsoft ISA server 2006 Released The ever improving ISA server product has a new incarnation; this smaller upgrade has some nifty features including the ability to now securely publish SharePoint web applications out of the box and improves Exchange publishing. |
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News on Microsoft Office Curriculum Books We’ve made some changes to our books services that we think you’ll like.
We hope you like these changes. The ordering process will remain the same, purchase orders can be faxed to 0870 145 1601 and enquiries sent by email to books@itsgroup.org.uk |
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Thanks for taking the time to read this newsletter. As always, your feedback is both welcomed and encouraged. |
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