Working in conjunction with ProCurve radio ports, the ProCurve wireless edge services module and ProCurve management software, learn how to design and create an infrastructure offering centralised wired and wireless LAN configuration and management enabling resilient highly secure highly mobile multi service networks.

Is Software Assurance for you? Explore your options and travel through the world of Microsoft Volume Licensing Services and discover the benefits waiting at the end of the journey. Along the way we'll make a stop at Vista and expand on your options.

Next stop will be the requirements around the Desktop Optimisation Pack and what this means to you.

Find out how easy it is to include Student Licensing or provide staff members with Work At Home access under your existing Microsoft Licensing arrangements. We'll also look at the licensing requirements that enable parents to have access to your site.

Manage and take advantage of the e-learning courses available to you through your Software Assurance benefits.

Microsoft E-Learning offers a variety of e-learning products to help you maximize your technology investments and accomplish your learning goals.  Come and find out about the features that make the learning experience even more beneficial.

Virtual environments are becoming a must have for both commercial and education environments. When moving from a physical to virtual environment, or even maintaining a mix of both, an IT manager should use the opportunity to review Disaster Recovery (DR) capabilities. Is backup and recovery really enough? And what is the best practice around Virtual Environments?

This session aims to give you best practice information around backup and recovery of virtual and physical environments, as well as explore tools that can help improve the availability of critical applications and data. You will also learn of methods to centralise backups to one location, removing the need for multiple campuses having onsite backup facilities. Don't let viruses, human error, corruptions or even hardware failures put your DR strategies at risk.

With the need for a greener approach to IT systems and management, find out how HP can deliver a better managed, more efficient infrastructure. During this session you will hear how to deploy the most energy efficient technology, and gain an insight into the roadmap for server computing. We will also discuss centralised storage and strategies for virtualisation on servers and storage.

Symantec Endpoint Protection is the next-generation antivirus solution from Symantec. It combines Symantec AntiVirus with advanced threat prevention to deliver an unmatched defense against malware such as viruses, worms, spyware, Trojan horses, zero-day threats, and rootkits. The unified product delivers the most advanced technology available to protect you against today's sophisticated threats and threats not seen before. It increases protection for laptops, desktops, and servers by including proactive technologies that automatically analyze application behaviors and network communications to detect and actively block threats. It is a single, comprehensive product that gives you all these capabilities with the ability to enable the pieces you need, as you need them. Whether the attack is coming from a malicious insider or is externally motivated, endpoints will be protected. This multilayered approach significantly lowers risks and increases your confidence that your business assets are protected. Symantec Endpoint Protection reduces administrative overhead and the costs associated with managing multiple endpoint security products by providing this protection in a single agent that is administered via a single management console. This simplifies endpoint security administration and provides operational efficiencies such as one-click software updates and policy updates, unified and central reporting, and a single licensing and maintenance program.

Despite shrinking budgets, schools are under heightened pressure to improve overall communications, school safety, parental involvement and teacher quality, ultimately for the purpose of improving student outcomes.

Hear how Mitel IP Solutions enable schools to:

 Empower teachers and principals: give teachers and principals maximum mobility, transparency, access and multi-media tools that facilitate greater collaboration and innovative learning techniques.

 Increase administrative office efficiency: automate and manage incoming / outgoing / inter-office calls and faxes, freeing up office lines and increasing office productivity.

 Enhance school safety: dramatically improve response times and outcomes during emergencies.

 Increase parental involvement: improve parent-teacher communications with multi-language access to student information and school services.

 Engage students: facilitate classroom video infusion, targeted distance learning, tutoring, mentoring and more.

Geelong Grammar School, (GGS), has recently partnered with Coordimax to implement a Facilities Management and eDocument Workflow solution. David Witcombe, GGS ICT Director, talks first-hand about Coordimax for Education's Facilities Management, how he has found the implementation process and Coordimax partnership to date, and what he hopes GGS will achieve (ie how Coordimax will be utilized within the school's resources and in particular the flexibility it will provide for the Centre for Wellbeing and then into future expansion of other facilities).

During this session we'll examine the progress and requirements of key network standards like 802.11n and 10GbE.

In this presentation the following will be examined:

• The journey from old school to an industry best practice IT support model.
• An examination of the driving forces that lead to the Introduction of a Help (Service) desk based upon best practice as well as using the ITIL Service Management Framework.
• Implementation time line, challenges and issues faced by IT staff and the School population. A look at how this change has benefited the IT Department and the School as a whole.
• How the IT Department initiated a cultural change in the way IT support was delivered to the School, from an environment that thrived on personal contact to a less personal more efficient model.
• Implementation cost, Software, Procedures, Policies
• Evaluation, measurement and staff perception of the success of our IT support model.

Next Generation of Web and Email Security

The emergence of Web 2.0 and user generated content has dramatically changed the Internet threat landscape with children and students under threat from new techniques from Spammers and cyber criminals. Webroot's Threat Research team has discovered that 85% of all Malware and Viruses is now distributed via the web and with the explosion of malware variants to 5,500,000 in 2007, it is imperative for education institutes to be aware of the current threats and effectively protect their students and staff from Internet threats.

Find out how the London Grid for Learning and multiple Australian schools have already solve these issues with a Web and Email Security Software-as-a-Service solution to safeguard over 1 million students and staff and over 2,700 schools in the London district and see how easy it is to get the most cost-efficient, easy-to-deploy and maintain and effective IT security for your organisation.

HP Blade Server (Solution Overview) session discusses the benefits of deploying blades as against traditional rack mount servers and will provide an insight to the HP C Class Blade Server Architecture, management, interconnects and implementation methodology. With the evolution of HP bade servers, customers are seeing powerful unique benefits delivering more Value, Simplicity and Agility for their IT environments. This message gets even more powerful with storage consolidation & server virtualization by providing increased utilization, cost reduction, less hardware and standardized management. Please discover how HP Blades can help you do more with less.

Virus writers aren't just kids having fun any more. (Not that virus writing was ever really "fun", since it was criminal and unacceptable, but at least writing the virus was almost always the beginning and the end of the crime.)

These days, virus writing has become part of an organised criminality in which malicious programs are merely tools to assist in further crimes, such as spamming, phishing, denial of service, cyberstandover and, perhaps most worryingly at a school, the theft of personally identifying information.

This talk will show modern malware in action (safely, of course), looking at an exploit and at a rootkit. If you are technical, come and learn about software tools (most of them free) which can help you to regain control of "owned" computers. If you aren't technical, come along and scare yourself! You will gain insight into the sort of computer security issues which need to be taken into account when planning tomorrow's IT policies.

Email and Web security is mission critical to educational institutions. However, as threats become more complex and malicious, a new methodology to IT security is needed. On-demand security, or IT security as a service, is fast becoming an acceptable solution for combating these emerging threats by keeping threats off the network while retaining full control like it was an in-house solution.

Dr Richard Cullen, Distinguished Engineer at SurfControl will give an update on the evolving threat landscape and future outlook then deliver the "what, why and how" of on-demand email and Web security by answering questions such as:

• What is on-demand email and Web security?
• What are the benefits?
• How would I integrate it into my existing solution?

Many schools underestimate the importance of the right network infrastructure. Too often, even IT-savvy network administrators make the mistake of treating a network as simply "plumbing" for moving data around.

In this session, ProCurve Networking by HP will give you insights into the technologies that let you start building an adaptive network today, helping you harness the full potential of your existing network infrastructure.

A workshop designed to introduce the concept of VLANs and how best to plan and deploy.

In February 2009, after nearly three years of planning, Calvary Christian College will welcome the first cohort of students into its one-to-one technology program - "iLearn2020". For the staff, parents and students of Calvary, iLearn2020 represents an exciting vision for the future and the culmination of the three years of tough educational debate, discussion, critical infrastructure change, and intensive professional development. This presentation will outline why and how Calvary Christian College has embarked on this journey and explore some of the triumphs and tribulations on the journey to preparing for a one-to-one learning program.

In February 2009, after nearly three years of planning, Calvary Christian College will welcome the first cohort of students into its one-to-one technology program - "iLearn2020". For the staff, parents and students of Calvary, iLearn2020 represents an exciting vision for the future and the culmination of the three years of tough educational debate, discussion, critical infrastructure change, and intensive professional development. This presentation will outline why and how Calvary Christian College has embarked on this journey and explore some of the triumphs and tribulations on the journey to preparing for a one-to-one learning program.

Learn the requirements for the next generation of Microsoft Server Products, (Exchange, SharePoint, Windows Server 2008, OCS) and how to develop an implementation strategy that provides secure external access.

Do you have a perimeter network? An edge and a back firewall? Microsoft Terminal Server Remote Applications? Discover the best way to implement new publishing techniques, and contextually, why they are so important.

Session Includes a Microsoft TS Remote App Demonstration.

It turns out in the end that the internet IS a jungle, and there are some very real dangers. Some of these dangers are clear and obvious, while others are more devious and use social engineering to exploit an innocent user in the same way a vulnerable company is exploited.

The only way to truly reduce the risk of this emerging type of attack is to implement a solution which has Zero Day Protection systems at its core so that the your network's protection is not dependent on definition updates, but can respond to threats as they emerge on a proactive preventative basis, rather than a reactive or clean up basis.

This session will provide an opportunity for scholaris users from across Australia to meet and discuss their own approach to the use of the Scholaris Learning Gateway. A number of schools will present particular aspects of their portal environments, particularly those used for teaching and learning. Representatives from Scholaris International/Solutions IT will also present an overview of product development plans.

This session is suitable for both users and technical managers of the Scholaris Learning Gateway and both ELH and Schooltech delegates are welcome to attend.

This session will provide an opportunity for scholaris users from across Australia to meet and discuss their own approach to the use of the Scholaris Learning Gateway. A number of schools will present particular aspects of their portal environments, particularly those used for teaching and learning. Representatives from Scholaris International/Solutions IT will also present an overview of product development plans.

This session is suitable for both users and technical managers of the Scholaris Learning Gateway and both ELH and Schooltech delegates are welcome to attend.

Security and client management has become simpler than ever with Symantec Multi Tier Protection. Join Symantec as they explore Multi Tier Protection and discover how it integrates seamlessly into today's changing threat landscape. Learn about some of the challenges facing schools today and how Symantec are helping them gain better control of their endpoints in this ever changing environment.

With the ever-changing threat landscape affecting the global community on a daily basis, how can education maximise its investment in security?

Utilising Unified Threat Management, combined with the performance of hardware acceleration, allows for the greatest level of security today. Combining the power of URL filtering, Intrusion Protection Systems and Antivirus can assist in the battle against anonoymizers, worm outbreaks and virus distribution.

Come along and find out how others are tackling this difficult task with ease.

Many schools have strategies for their network infrastructure, PCs and communications, but what's their strategy for providing and managing an efficient and effective imaging and printing service? One approach does not fit all. This presentation will look at trends in Imaging and Printing, cost considerations, designing the right fleet and management considerations. We'll also cover some solutions that can assist with cost control and workflow improvements.

With RAID controllers becoming standard on most platforms this presents challenges when deploying an Operating System. Be it Windows XP or Windows Vista the deployment of an operating system with the requirement to resolve drivers and integrate applications, if done efficiently, can be one of the best opportunities to reduce notebook ownership cost or conversely add to cost if not done correctly. Keith will demonstrate some of the tools that he uses and the resources available from Toshiba as well as an overview of the new tools available for Windows deployments.