JISC RSC YH Exchange News

JANET(UK) is pleased to announce the launch of the new JANET Certificate Service.
The service will offer a range of new features, through a simple online interface. This will enable the automated processing of certificate requests, for all .ac.uk and gov.uk domains, along with the ability to monitor and manage new certificates that are issued. This [...]

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Access Grid is a collaborative video conferencing tool where multiple sites from around the UK (or even around the world), can communicate and collaborate together in a single virtual location, called a virtual venue. This can be thought of as meeting in a video chat room on the internet.
Collaborative Tools for Teaching Workshop and Demonstration
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One of JANET’s activities is to monitor and, where possible, influence developments in legislation that affect universities, colleges and schools as operators of large computer networks. A new blog has been launched that will provide updates on developing areas of law and regulation.
The blog will mostly be concerned with changes and developments: areas of [...]

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You might be interested to know that JANET Training are running the following one-day courses during August:
Computers, Privacy and the Law
5th August 2009
Peter House, Manchester
The main aim of the course is to enabling organisations and staff to work lawfully, protect user privacy and run a professional system/network/service. This course provides an introduction to the privacy [...]

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The JANET Videoconferencing Service (JVCS) has made a new feature available to organisations registered with the JVCS Booking Service. When you book or launch a videoconference through the JVCS Booking Service, you can now choose to record the conference by simply ticking a box.  Once your session has finished and the recording has been processed, [...]

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You might be interested to know that there are still places available on the following JANET Training one-day training courses at the end of July:
IP Fundamentals
21st July 2009
Woburn House, London
This course looks at the Internet Protocol in detail, from the basic principles of operation down to the [...]

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UK Federation in Practice - A cross-sector event to help organisations learn from the experiences of others
The UK Access Management Federation is pleased to announce that it will be running a federated access event on 14th October 2009 at the ICO in London.
The event will focus on a number of cross-sector case studies that have been developed [...]

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JANET are trailing their new course ‘JANET Roaming Fundamentals’:
JANET Roaming Fundamentals
15th July
Manchester
This course will provide delegates with an understanding of how JANET Roaming operates at both basic technical and support level. This includes an overview of how to configure user equipment and solve some of the issues those users might face. The course also covers [...]

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You might be interested to know that JANET Training are running their three federation based courses at Peter House in Manchester:
Introduction to the UK federation
29th June 2009
The aim of this course is to provide an overview of what’s required of organisations wishing to join the UK Access Management Federation. The course will include suggested ways [...]

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Several new dates for JANET Training’s new course Virtualisation Fundamentals have been added to the 2009 schedule.  ***See the JISC RSC YH website for details on how you could get this training FREE!***
These include:
July 21st in Manchester
October 13th in London
December 15th in Newcastle
 
Course Overview
This course introduces the topic of virtualisation, focusing on the successful implementation [...]

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