Microsoft Partnership in Education Name:Dorah Mabotja Title:Account Technology Specialist Microsoft Corporation

South Africa: Alive with Possibilities

Introduction 4 th Annual Round-Table -Interact with Microsoft executives -Network with executives from other organizations outside of higher education –Opportunity to give your honest feedback to Microsoft –Opportunity for us to hear from you on how we can improve

Continued Investment in Education –R ,46 invested in education –Sponsorship of events such as CITTE, DITCHE and the IT Directors’ forum –Sponsorship of Tech-Ed vouchers –TENET Training –SITO Summit –IT Academy –Project Firefly; MSDNAA; Campus Roadshows

2006 – 2007 Projects Some of the projects that we have supported in higher education: –UNISA migrating their infrastructure to the Microsoft platform –Infrastructure deployment at UniVen –Health check and Infrastructure review at NMMU –Windows Edu pilot at TUT –SharePoint at NWU –University of Stellenbosch Search pilot –Premier Support contracts with UCT and US

Microsoft Premier Support Proactive engagement with Microsoft to manage and support your environment –Skills assessment –Knowledge-transfer workshops –Infrastructure risk assessments –Health checks and remediation planning –Tailor-made packages to suit your organization

Partnership With TENET Technology sessions in partnership with TENET including –Technology sessions at DITCHE –Security event –Spam, malware and gray-listing event –Lab facilities management event –Events for the new year includes a SharePoint training event that will be scheduled for June

Our Commitment To You –Quarterly visits from the account management team –Playing a technology advisory role and getting involved in your projects –Monthly newsletter –Invitations to Microsoft events and training –Skills development for technical staff –Roundtable for executives –IT Directors’ forum support

Ashley de Klerk: Public Sector Director

Your Thoughts We would like your feedback –What has worked well and what can we improve on –Identity integration, management and consolidation in higher ed institutions –Areas of collaboration between Microsoft and higher ed institutions

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