Multiple schools in single academy - Single Domain?

[nathan]

Single forest makes sense. What's your IT support structure? If you have someone at each site I'd go for a Child domain at each school. You can devolve admin to each school while retaining overall admin control from your own DC. Bear in mind that if a school breaks away they'll have to set up their own Forest Root server and domain. Which will involve a full network rebuild and migration. But as they'd be moving away from you it's not really your worry.

 

i have a feeling they have to give 7 years notice, or they cannot leave until after 7 years. Plenty of planning time there!

[SchoolsBroadband]

Smaller schools are about 4 classrooms. Others have more but a faster line.

 

Main thing is AD replication and logon, as a lot of our data is going to OneDrive.

 

10meg leased line at some of the schools will cost around £10k per year. So I don't think this is currently cost effective.

 

 

£10k a year for a 10Mbit???? That seems way expensive unless its in the absolute and utter middle of nowhere.

 

We've won quite a lot of tenders of late and have schools that specifically use what you're doing over a VPLS WAN. Some do use DSL, most EoFTTC or leased lines though and yes it does work fine. Be careful of pulling down profiles with lots of files in though that can saturate links.

 

if you use our VPLS WAN we can prioritise certain types of traffic by IP destination or application to guarantee bandwidth and make sure it works. Again all standard stuff with us so let me know if its of interest.

 

Thanks

 

Dave

[snagrat]

£10k a year for a 10Mbit???? That seems way expensive unless its in the absolute and utter middle of nowhere.

 

We've won quite a lot of tenders of late and have schools that specifically use what you're doing over a VPLS WAN. Some do use DSL, most EoFTTC or leased lines though and yes it does work fine. Be careful of pulling down profiles with lots of files in though that can saturate links.

 

if you use our VPLS WAN we can prioritise certain types of traffic by IP destination or application to guarantee bandwidth and make sure it works. Again all standard stuff with us so let me know if its of interest.

 

Thanks

 

Dave

 

Lisa quoted Dave, and yes it is in the middle of nowhere.

 

Unfortunately that is the situation down here in the South West!

[SchoolsBroadband]

She must have come to me for a "Dave special" then ;-)

 

I'll send you a pm and see if we can do any better for you.

 

Thanks

 

Dave

[navneetchahal89]

Hi IanT what would you recommend for a trust academy running 1 secondary school and 4 primary schools. We looking at a multi tenancy O365 however each school will need their own domain and AD. I'm new to this so just trying to source the net for expert advice. Thank you

 

 

 

We are one of the leading academy groups in the country running 38 academies with a single domain running the following centrally:

 

Single AD\Domain

Exchange (2010)

SharePoint (2013)

Central Wireless (Cisco)

Proxy Servers (Barracuda)

Backup (DPM)

SCCM

etc

etc

 

Each site is connected via a 100mb/s link with a ADSL failover.