Technical Day

[james1990]

Hi all,

Don't really post much here but thought I'd try and gauge interest for a technical day hosted at Bridgwater College, Somerset, TA6 4PZ.

We are a very large college with around 25,000 and very up-to-date kit so we are considering putting on a technical day where we can show other schools/colleges what we have done and how we do things, and also for us to gain other ideas.

Some topics that I thought may be on the agenda are:

-Virtualisation
-Networking
-Telephone systems
-Server 2008

Can you think of any other topics you'd be interested in?

Please let me know your thoughts!

Kind Regards
James

[witch]

VLE
Wireless systems
VPN

(25,000 what?!)

[FN-GM]

feature development of computers
linux?
web development
Remote access options

[Butuz]

Excellent stuff!!! I'd be particularly intersted in the Virtualisation and Telephone systems.

Look forward to attending!

Butuz

[russdev]

Yes might be of interest...

Russ

[Netman]

I'd be interested - got any thin clients?

[localzuk]

Sounds good to me!

[james1990]

Im glad to hear there's some interest.

Thin clients- we have around 70 terminal servers for somewhere in the region of 2000 thin clients.

Web development- we do as much as we can in house, our web guy does a lot of programming in ASP and PHP. We use MS SQL 2005/2008, clustered.

VLE- we currently use Blackboard hosted in-house but are looking at other options such as moodle.

Wireless- we have two cisco lan controllers, one at both our main campus'. These serve around 100 ap's.

Remote access- the only remote access we currently offer is webmail, extranet, and RDP.

I'll let everyone know the date when I can finalise it. It's been a very busy past couple of days as we're putting in a second Cisco 6509 core switch running VSS, this will be a very big part of the day!!! Oh and 25,000 users, you can tell its been a long week!!!