NetAdmin Newsletter
CPTTM Network Admin newsletter issue #18, Alan Au, Chief Editor
Supervised by Kent Tong, Manager for CPTTM-IT Department

Dear Network Administrators,

This CPTTM NetAdmin newsletter is to bring useful news to you, Network Administrators in Macau, for references without obligations, so that you can do your jobs easier and better! Hope you like it. if you'd like to unsubscribe or recommend your friends to subscribe, just email me at alan@cpttm.org.mo. Old issues are available here.

Topics in this issue:

Take certificate examination at the right testing center

In the past, most of the certificate examination can be taken at both Prometric and VUE testing centers. Recently, there is a greate change :

CCNA exams at VUE only 

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Cisco has announed that starting from 1st Aug, 2007, all Cisco Certification Exams can only be taken at VUE testing centers. For detals, please see: http://www.vue.com/cisco/faq/candidates.html. 

As CPTTM is a Prometric testing center, so, we will not be able to provide Cisco certificate exams temporarily. To continue serving Cisco certification exams to Macau public, we are preparing to apply for being a VUE testing center. Once we are ready, we will let you know.

In this period, if you want to take Cisco certificate exams, you can go to the two VUE testing centers in Macau. You can check out at : http://www.vue.com/.

Microsoft exams at Prometric only

CPTTM MP3 Microsoft has announced that all Microsoft Certification Exams will be swtiched to Prometric testing centers. For details, please see : http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcpexams/register/edp/default.mspx

Oracle 11g has launched

Oracle has launched its next major release of DBMS, Oracle 11g. Click here to learn more. Oracle 11g

For the new features of 11g, click here to see. 

Windows Vista SP1 beta is available

Microsoft has delivered Windows Vista SP1 beta at mid-July. See : http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=559&tag=nl.e539. The release version of  Windows Vista SP1 is targeted in November 2007.

VoIP applications

VoIP is becoming more and more popular. Let me show you some major applications of VoIP:
  • With your notebook installed with VoIP software or a VoIP phone and you company installed with VoIP System. You can make voice calls with notebook computer back to your company while you are on a business trip to other countries via Internet. This can save a lot of IDD fee. 
  • Internet call center accessvoipApplication
    • A customer who is browsing for products from a company website may have questions arisen. Traditionally, he/she may drop an email for query. 
    • With VoIP, the customer can initiate a voice call immediately from his/her VoIP equipped computer, to the company VoIP call center for a agent to query. 
  • Receiving Missed Calls as emails.
    • You may have been using the voice mail service from your teleco provider.
    • With VoIP system, your missed calls can be stored in the VoIP system and then sent to you in the form of an email, with voice attachment.
  • VoIP can provide conference call function
    • Using VoIP, company members from different regions can join a conference call over the Internet easily with their desktops equipped with VoIP software or VoIP phone.
Have interest to learn about VoIP and how to implement an open-source VoIP system? Please consider to join our course : Implementing VoIP System starting at the end of August.

Sharing CD writer at no software charge CDcreator

Cyberlab has got two CD writers installed on two computers in  the office. Everytime we need to brun CDs, the colleagues using those computers will be interrupted.

Recently, we have spared one old computer and installed Linux (Kbutuntu) on it. Then, we moved one CD writer to that computer and installed a free CD writer sharing software : webCDwriter on it. Then, all our colleagues can burn CD with a web browser connected to webCDwriter server without interrupting others.

The free edition of webCDwriter can only burn CDs even though you have a DVD writer. You may need to purchase CDWserver Pro for buring DVDs.

Coming networking related courses at CPTTM

Course code Title Start date End date Duration Fee
CM240-09-2007-C Implementing a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database (2779) 2007/09/01 2007/09/02 12 hours MOP1800
CM241-09-2007-C Maintaining a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database (2780) 2007/09/15 2007/09/16 12 hours MOP1800
CM243-09-2007-C CISA & CISSP 2007/09/01 2008/01/12 54 hours MOP2500
CM262-09-2007-C MCSE 2003 (Authorized by Microsoft) 2007/09/25 2008/09/05 220 hours MOP9390
CM277-08-2007-C Implementing VoIP System 2007/08/26 2007/09/09 18 hours MOP8500
CM280.1-08-2007-C MCSE 2003 Certificate Program (Part 1-Windows Server 2003 Environment) 2007/08/08 2007/09/08 30 hours MOP700
CM280.2-09-2007-C MCSE 2003 Certificate Program (Part 2-Windows Server 2003 Networking Service) 2007/09/12 2007/10/20 30 hours MOP700
CM280.3-10-2007-C MCSE 2003 Cert Program (Part 3-Planning and Maintaining Net. Infrastructure) 2007/10/24 2007/11/24 30 hours MOP700

Feedbacks

Any questions, ideas or experiences to share? Contact me at 28781313 or alan@cpttm.org.mo.

We also have two more newsletters named : CIO newsletter and Software developer newsletter. If you are interested, you can read them from the following links: CIO newsletter, Software developer newsletter.

Until next time, 

Alan Au

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