Summer plans

[newpersn]

So what plans do fellow members have during the summer?

[Guest Guest]

Bit busy, we're

- Fitting 3 SMART E70s

- Wiring an IT Room

- Imaging 95 Toshiba Encores

- Setting up 14 iPads

- Faffing with the wireless

[plexer]

Find a new job.

 

Ben

[Bompalompalomp]

Lose the ICT suite. Gain a smaller room with a horrible window looking into two classrooms. Lose 19 computers and a fraction of my workload. Cry myself to sleep. Data entry. Make tea. Find summer job.

[Ephelyon]

Complete back-end server refresh. Moving to boxes with 24 cores, 128GB RAM and 7TB of storage.

[Jamman960]

finally found out what our budget for september is today so can start making plans, getting ees licencing in place as well as a new file server are first on the list followed by sorting out new images for everything.

 

im also hoping to get all of our copiers replaced and papercut mf implimented... just wish these damn companies would email quotes/price lists rather than insisting on face to face meetings for everything

[FN-GM]

New internet connection and firewall. Thats about it really.

[Grey-gear]

Replacing legacy computers

New computer rooms

Move computers to new rooms

Have a large computer room slipt in two

Go through laptop trolleys

Make new users

Clean server room and store rooms

Install new software

Move staff offices

 

That's the list so far.

[X-13]

Remove CC4.

Merge curriculum + admin.

Reimage all the things.

[3s-gtech]

Mine was to replace every remaining PC's HDD with SSD, but we've started early. Otherwise it'll be pretty quiet - some server upgrades and retirements, clear our office for redecoration/carpet/new cabling. Should be good.

[SHimmer45]

Find a new job.

 

Ben

 

this

 

on a more serious note the main thing is to move from server 2003 to 2012 and ranger 8

along with the usual smart board installs etc.

possibly rejig the network addressing/wireless

[Scotbynature]

Installing new PC's and laptops.

wiping and rebuilding our Mac server.

Moving, re cabling and setting up two IT classes.

Finishing adding all of the support staff to next years timetable.

possibly having 20 new projectors and smartboards installed.

creating all of the new user accounts for next year.

backing up and removing all of the old staff and pupil accounts.

 

And they wonder why I want my technician for three weeks instead of two, I do actually want to take a holiday in the summer you now.

[Danp]

50 new machines to replace 2 x ageing (6 year old machines) IT suites

SSDs in as many machines as cash and time will allow, hopefully 60'ish

Expand our Unifi 'system', bought 3 units that were delivered yesterday and they were up and running within an hour so we want more! Thanks @Millgate

Couple of office moves to help with, couple of new rooms for 6th form to setup

Support our lets who use our school and equipment for nearly the whole 8 weeks.

[fairm010]

Double our internal IP address range, demote old DC, fix a CCTV camera. Not too much this year

[localzuk]

Update PaperCut

Update SCCM

Update all servers

Build new base Windows 7 image, with latest updates streamlined in

Work through images for suites to create more granular images

Update Flash, Chrome, etc… Applications in SCCM

Sort out Bitlocker

Sort out new password policy for staff

 

The main task though is one of programming - I have to get a system finished by September.

[hardtailstar]

Find a new job.

 

this!

 

But also at one of my schools Ive got to upgrade the IT suite to windows 7, install new IWB pcs in each class.

[ButterflyMoon]

Drive up to Uig on Skye, ferry over to Lewis and camp through Lewis and Harris!!

[Iain.Faulkner]

Remove 120 old Windows XP PC's - Removing 4 of our IT Rooms completely

Install up to 80 new PC's

Do an almost complete reshuffle of our other 350 curriculum PC's

Reimage all PC's after they've been shuffled round

Do an ever increasing number of office moves

Setup our new reception area

Upgrade 5 iMac's and add to Domain

Broadband replacement

Implement new VLE

Clear out IT Storeroom

 

Plus other bits as we get told/think of more things that we need to do/get given budgets to allow us to do more

[abillybob]

Install PaperCut, Migrate Smoothwall Server, Sort out Google Apps for Education, Chill

[Earthling]

First three weeks of the summer holidays off.

 

Cambridge Folk Festival, end of July. Recover/detox from that, planning a weekend just across the Channel somewhere to stock up on cheap baccy. Someone I know has half persuaded me to join a battle re-enactment society, so I might go for that. Otherwise, out for top-down drives wherever the fancy takes me. East Anglia coast is always nice.

 

Work-wise.....nothing.....no money.

[X-13]

Install PaperCut, Migrate Smoothwall Server, Sort out Google Apps for Education, Chill

 

...crash into a massive, bright yellow skip.

[sparkeh]

• Replace a bunch of projectors with Casios
  
• Replace older switches, VLAN and sort out guest WLAN
  
• Recable cabs as they have got messy over the year after lots of messing about in them
  
• Work with ISP to config router and implement VPN
  
• Extend suite, complete with new wiring
  
• Refresh website
  
• Work with Deputy to plan programming for KS1 for next year and plan training program for staff
  
• Sort out low amount of free space on file server
  
• Install replacement CCTV cams
  
• Update to last free version of SMART
  
• Look into why logon times have increased recently
  

 

Hmmm perhaps I have planned too much :S

[mrbios]

Replace 20-25 of the oldest teacher PCs around the school

Replacing spinning disks in the rest with SSDs

Upgrading our only remaining IT room on spinning disks to SSDs

update HAP to v10

Reducing our domain controllers count (We have 10, very excessive, dates back to when we had a DC per building physically)

Shutting everything down to test and repair our generator

Reimaging 6th form laptops

9 new laptops for science staff + docking stations as they're one of two departments that like to use their laptops in the classroom instead of the desktop provided

Screwing a bunch of monitors to the desks where they aren't already

Consolidating 3 VMs down to one (Basic roles that don't need separate VMs anymore)

Upgrade what will be the remaining two or three DCs to 2012R2

New website from e4education being finished in the summer, so we'll no doubt have some work there

 

From then on it's clearout old junk, clean monitors and projectors, organise some data and update some documentation. A relatively quiet summer this year compared to past years really.

[Iain.Faulkner]

Forgot to add that I need to sort out 20 iPad Mini's as well, working with Apple Configurator and Meraki

[abillybob]

...crash into a massive, bright yellow skip.

Really! Am I ever going to live this down.... Note to self stop posting thing on the interwebs!