JISC Advance RSC Northwest

Event 

Taming the Mac Series

Blackpool Sixth Form College
Mon 15 Feb 2010, 4 Days
09:00 - 17:00

Update 29.01.10 -  All workshops NOW FULL & booking closed.  If you wish to be added to a reserve list, in case of any cancellations, please email events@rsc-northwest.ac.uk

This series of workshops on 'Taming the Mac', presented by NTI Birmingham, will be running at Blackpool Sixth Form College, over the half term break.

Please read carefully the details below, listed for each individual workshop.

When completing the online booking form, please indicate which workshops you wish to attend.  You may attend all of the workshops, or just one or two - which ever are most appropriate to you and your role.

Each full day workshop will be charged at £100 per delegate, and each half day workshop will be £60 per delegate. Your organisation will be charged prior to the workshops taking place, and cancellations cannot be made after 1 February 2010.

Which workshops are available?

Taming the Mac Series, Installation and Configuration - Full Day
Course Code TM1 - Mon 15 Feb 2010

Delegates are taken through the installation options of OS X 10.5 (Leopard) configure the default account and examine each of the system preferences. To conclude delegates will be equipped with a number of useful troubleshooting techniques to take away with them.

Course Content
• Installing
o Upgrading from 10.4
o Hardware
o Install Options
o Replacing MAC
• Configuring
o Default Configurations
o User Access Levels
• System Preferences
o All 25 plus 1 (third party), step-by-step
• OS X Troubleshooting tips
o The main routines to avoid and/or solve problems

Taming the Mac Series, Security – Half Day
Course Code TM2 - Tue 16 Feb 2010 morning

This course examines the different levels of user access, managing non-admin accounts whilst minimising the risk of damage to malware or hackers. Delegates will be given the opportunity to re-examine system preferences relating to system security.

Course Content
• Secure OS X Install
• Open Firmware
• Users/System Preferences
• Data Security and Access

Taming the Mac Series, Standard Profiling (Cloning) – Half Day
Course Code TM3 - Tue 16 Feb 2010 afternoon

A walkthrough the whys and hows of creating a ASR Disk Image and the methods of deploying it, both one-to-one and one-to-many.

Course Content
• Standard Profiling
o What is it?
o Why do it?
o What are the advantages?
• Types of Cloning
o What is Firewire Target Disk Mode?
o Connecting via Firewire Target Disk Mode.
o What are the problems associated with cloning?
• Using NetRestore
o What is it?
o Creating a disk image.

Taming the Mac Series, Active Directory Integration - Full Day
Course Code TM4 - Thur 18 Feb 2010
THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL

NTI have developed this series of courses (based on Mac OS X 10.5), to meet the needs of education based IT professionals faced with integrating Apple Macintoshes into existing networks and domains.

Course Content
Students will look at integrating Mac clients into an Active Directory domain. This will be followed by a look at the advantages and differences of integrating Macs with Active Directory via OS X server and Open Directory.

Taming the Mac Series - Networking - Full Day
Course Code TM5 - Wed 17 Feb 2010

This course is designed for IT personnel, in an educational environment, who need to add support for Mac users to their skillset.

Course Prerequisites
Attendance on at least Taming the Macintosh 1 and 2 – Installation, Configuration and Security, or equivalent Mac support experience.

Course Objectives
Delegates will be guided through networking basics, on to configuring the Network Preference panes and an introduction to the three in-built troubleshooting tools.

Course Outline
• Networking Basics including; Protocols, DNS, Interfaces and Proxies
• Network Preferences including; Configuring Locations, Services and Proxies
• Troubleshooting tools including; Network Preferences, Diagnostic Assistant and Network Utility

 For further details about these workshops, please contact Keith Wilson, eLearning Adviser at kwil@rsc-northwest.ac.uk

Booking now closed.

Event	Date	Duration	Venue		Delegate Fee	Booking Form
Taming the Mac Series	Mon 15 Feb 2010	4 Days	Blackpool Sixth Form College		0.00
Delegate fees TM1 - £100 TM2 - £60 TM3 - £60 (TM2 + TM3 - £100) TM5 - £100 TM4 - £100