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Duration	2 days
Cost	£625 (plus VAT)
Dates	May 2013  - Jul 2013

Attendees should have experience of supporting a Community Connect 3 network and have previously attended a Community Connect 3 Management course.

Please note: Individuals who have no experience of supporting a Community Connect 3 network should attend the Managing Community Connect® 4 for Technicians, or Managing Community Connect 4 for ICT Coordinators courses.

Important: The Community Connect 3 - Community Connect 4 Upgrade process is not covered in this or any of the Community Connect 4 Technical Training on offer.

They key objective of this course is to allow delegates to gain practical knowledge and experience of Community Connect 4 and the new functionality introduced.

At the end of this course, attendees will be able to:

• Support pupils and staff in their use of Community Connect 4.
• Maintain a Community Connect 4 network.
• Add users and manage essential security settings.
• Apply custom settings for users and computers.
• Manage computers, printers and software.
• Protect the network with backup and restoring systems.

Introduction to Community Connect 4

• What's included in Community Connect 4
• The RM Management Console
• Overview of automated updating of the network
• Overview of the improved software management
• Overview of the new workstation build process
• Overview of new tools for Students and Staff
• Overview of tools to allow Students to work smarter

Adding users to Community Connect 4

• Creating single user accounts
• Bulk creating users
• Importing users
• User properties
• Organising users
• User templates
• User registry policies

 Supporting students

• Exploring the Microsoft® Windows® XP and Windows Vista®  student environments
• Using My Connect as a Student user
• Using RM EasyLink
• The Network Recycle Bin
• Using smart lists to find information about sets of users

 Supporting teachers

• Explore user profiles between the two supported operating systems
• My Connect network management tasks staff can perform through My Connect
• Applying Acceptable Usage Policies to staff
• Controlling classroom Internet access

Application management

• Methods of adding software to Community Connect 4
• Scheduling application deployment
• Making applications available to users
• Software assignment overview
• Software auditing
• Using RM Package Blueprint

Network protection

• The server recovery toolkit
• Preparing media for backup
• Weekly checks
• Protecting your network from viruses
• Updating your network with RM and Microsoft software updates

Computer management

• The desktop operating systems supported on Community Connect 4
• Building computers on Community Connect 4
• Configuring build templates
• Organising computers in the RM Management Console
• Remotely managing computers through the RM Management Console
• Computer hardware auditing
• Computer registry policies