newpersn Posted July 20, 2015 Posted July 20, 2015 So what projects do you have planned? I got 2 network cabinets to swap? (1 down already) New computers in IT room. > old ones are going somewhere else 2nd network is getting installed. Moving IP Cams and Door Access over to it. General server updates. I might move a few admin computers over to 64bit.
mdrabble Posted July 20, 2015 Posted July 20, 2015 (edited) Network Migration - migrate user accounts etc to new domain Server 2012R2 installations including SCCM 2012R2 Repackage Drivers, Software etc..... Rebuild all workstations/laptops New IT Room - install PCs and cable new cab Reorganise Server Rack Replacing SAN with new shiny box Reinstall Moodle, reskin and import course that need to be kept. Reconfigure smoothwall Reconfigure Meraki I have a whiteboard with the whole plan of what is happening when........ oh the fun never ends! Edited July 20, 2015 by mdrabble
newpersn Posted July 20, 2015 Author Posted July 20, 2015 Windows 10! Your a brave man. I will install it on my workstation. I dont think i will be letting others use it yet.
FN-GM Posted July 20, 2015 Posted July 20, 2015 Your a brave man. I will install it on my workstation. I dont think i will be letting others use it yet. There is a lot to do before general release. Build images, test for compatibility, sort drivers for OSD, sort profile, sort group policies. We will be sending it out to a couple of machines in each work room and some more technical staff first.
speckytecky Posted July 20, 2015 Posted July 20, 2015 (edited) Had a lot planned but all on hold now as I've been told I'm term time only and any OT needs prior management sanction. Fed up with banging my head on the wall on that one so it will be interesting to see what awaits the school at the start of the new term! Dear Mods. Handy if this thread were Behind The Red Door as we are in very litigious times and disciplinary system seem to be well in favour Edited July 20, 2015 by speckytecky
Sibrows Posted July 20, 2015 Posted July 20, 2015 I don't have Windows 10 on the list for this year. Maybe next! My list: - Decommission 1 IT room (33 computers) and redistribute. - 24 new PCs to replace and redistribute - 10 new Macs to replace and redistribute - New CCTV system to install - ESX 5.5 to 6 - 2 virtual hosts to upgrade - Decommission Apple XServe and commission new Mac Mini to run profile manager to manage the existing Macs.
hardtailstar Posted July 21, 2015 Posted July 21, 2015 Had a lot planned but all on hold now as I've been told I'm term time only and any OT needs prior management sanction. Fed up with banging my head on the wall on that one so it will be interesting to see what awaits the school at the start of the new term! Dear Mods. Handy if this thread were Behind The Red Door as we are in very litigious times and disciplinary system seem to be well in favour Make sure you get it in writing that you were told not to do it. I had a similar situation at my old job, so glad I had it on email I was told not to work in the summer. 1
X-13 Posted July 21, 2015 Posted July 21, 2015 Finish Dead Space 2 [currently at Chapter 10], start and finish Dead Space 3, finish a bunch of other games I have. In short... I plan to do precisely all. ...Possibly try to find a new job, if I have time.
Grey-gear Posted July 21, 2015 Posted July 21, 2015 Change user names for all users then some normal bits a pieces.
Iain.Faulkner Posted July 21, 2015 Posted July 21, 2015 Quiet one this summer... We've already had done.... Running 17 new fiber's and replacement of 17 network cabs with some re-organising of the network through the installation of new network points Tidy out the server room and all other network cabs by removing old cables that are no longer used (it is frightening how much cable I've pulled out in the last couple of months!) Still to do.... Replace all switches (approximately 30 new switches being installed), with Vlan's being configured to separate out the network. 93 new PC's to install Move round lots of other PC's (about 6 IT Suites being moved around) All PC's in school to be reimaged Office 2013 Ruckus wireless being installed (points have started to be installed) I'm sure there is more to do that I've forgotten.
Sagima Posted July 21, 2015 Posted July 21, 2015 This is my list. The others have their own Update Images and reimage sections of school Demote DC2 when new DC arrives Purchase and configure MDM Purchase apps for prep ipads and enable mdm management Setup VLANs – phones, student wifi, door controllers, cctv, staff wifi Update CCTV firmware for use with new software Configure SCCM with windows updates ReInstall VS2 VS1 windows updates and hotfixes to fix console prob Switch FS1 and FS3 – copy shares and add work folder install to fs3 Redo group policy, eliminate offline files and move both schools to the same base policies Add .school certificates to all servers Redo all security/distribution groups as nested Update Fileserver security with new nested groups Enable fileserver deduplication Install additional server RAM Configure switches with rstp Swap out old computers General server maintenance (firmwares, patches and drivers) Update email groups for new academic year Remove old computers/users from AD Remove old staff accounts from fileserver
FN-GM Posted July 21, 2015 Posted July 21, 2015 Quiet one this summer... We've already had done.... Running 17 new fiber's and replacement of 17 network cabs with some re-organising of the network through the installation of new network points Tidy out the server room and all other network cabs by removing old cables that are no longer used (it is frightening how much cable I've pulled out in the last couple of months!) Still to do.... Replace all switches (approximately 30 new switches being installed), with Vlan's being configured to separate out the network. 93 new PC's to install Move round lots of other PC's (about 6 IT Suites being moved around) All PC's in school to be reimaged Office 2013 Ruckus wireless being installed (points have started to be installed) I'm sure there is more to do that I've forgotten. 17 Cabs! We only have 2!
Iain.Faulkner Posted July 21, 2015 Posted July 21, 2015 17 Cabs! We only have 2! Lol, yeh....that actually is reducing it as well by 2/3 switch locations. I suppose on a technicality we only currently have about 12 cabs (some of our switches are literally screwed to the wall), but these are being replaced with proper cabs :-) these 17 cabs also doesn't include our main comms room or our server room!
FN-GM Posted July 21, 2015 Posted July 21, 2015 We just have 2 comms rooms. It does make life easier to be honest.
pauldredge Posted July 21, 2015 Posted July 21, 2015 Server builds, server builds and more server builds. Thought it was going to be a quiet one this summer but seems our company have a lot of installs to do a various primary schools.
Iain.Faulkner Posted July 21, 2015 Posted July 21, 2015 We just have 2 comms rooms. It does make life easier to be honest. Sadly it's not an option for us as we have 6 separate buildings :-(
FN-GM Posted July 21, 2015 Posted July 21, 2015 Sadly it's not an option for us as we have 6 separate buildings :-( I agree with that. We have another build that has a cab. But we have minimized it as much as possible.
clockend25 Posted July 21, 2015 Posted July 21, 2015 Bits and bobs. Installing a new server and switch at the infant school we support. Also sticking in two new IWBs. I'm going to try and sync AD and 365, having used the latter for three years. No idea if this is possible without bricking the accounts and starting again, but I'll give it a go. Moving to x64 across our curriculum machines. Rolling out Chrome to curriculum clients. Sorting out our Pupil Wifi SSID to allow better reporting of use. The addresses Meraki assigns are causing issues currently. Prepping 20 Win 8 tablets our SEN department have purchased. Sorting out RemoteApp to allow students to access certain programs from home through HAP New POE switch going into one of our main cabs Environment monitor going into the server room The rest is the usual: server maintenance, updates, staff/student leavers/starters, office moves, and admin stuff.
Blue_Cookeh Posted July 21, 2015 Posted July 21, 2015 (edited) - Contractors are recabling the entire school to hide ghastly trunking everywhere, pull everything into our first server room, and clean up a comms cab - Introduce a couple more VLANs and enable routing now we have a core switch - Double up on APs at reduced power - Make sure BT don't screw up our leased line install (going from the LA' 6Mbps bonded DSL to 30Mbps uncontended fibre! Awww yissss) It'll be like having a whole new physical network! Then once that's done... - Win 10 deployment across existing and new batches of netbooks - Reimage ~20 desktop PCs - Deploy DirectAccess to staff - DR testing - Find out why Meraki doesn't work through our damn Sophos UTM - Reconfig our iPad estate - Fix AD/O365 sync problems we have - Sort out my shiny new HyperV host for some redundancy Edited July 21, 2015 by Blue_Cookeh
Sylv3r Posted July 21, 2015 Posted July 21, 2015 Rip out and replacing 5 data cabinets including new fibre runs. Installation of new Meraki switches Rollout of Meraki Wireless 70 new PC's to install 5 Projector installs Numerous Avaya IP office config changes Move from ISDN to SIP Install new VMWare Host
mrbios Posted July 21, 2015 Posted July 21, 2015 replaced all the storage, all the servers (physically) and my file server VM during term time....because i like to live dangerously (or rather because virtualisation is so freaking awesome in allowing me to do it all live!) soooo i've got a pretty quiet summer. Most of our summer work is office reorganising Sixth form is having a bit of renovations done Generally lots of little bits of tidying, fine tuning or moving equipment around. Then i'll no doubt spent the last week or two beginning my journey into testing windows 10 ready for deployment next summer. I could say it's the quietest summer I'll have had since i've been there, but in actual fact on the 31st my best mate flys over from louisiana, come the 7th I'll be getting married and on the 21st I'm off on a honeymoon to Paris ...so it's going to be a busy one for me 1
newpersn Posted July 21, 2015 Author Posted July 21, 2015 replaced all the storage, all the servers (physically) and my file server VM during term time....because i like to live dangerously (or rather because virtualisation is so freaking awesome in allowing me to do it all live!) soooo i've got a pretty quiet summer. Most of our summer work is office reorganising Sixth form is having a bit of renovations done Generally lots of little bits of tidying, fine tuning or moving equipment around. Then i'll no doubt spent the last week or two beginning my journey into testing windows 10 ready for deployment next summer. I could say it's the quietest summer I'll have had since i've been there, but in actual fact on the 31st my best mate flys over from louisiana, come the 7th I'll be getting married and on the 21st I'm off on a honeymoon to Paris ...so it's going to be a busy one for me *looks round for his invite* I've done one our cabinets now. Just need switchs installed but I need a electrician to change the fused spur to the new power strip. Also need the firbe man to rejoin the splice as I had the fibre (I say me cut it... I got our network cabling guys to do it.) All the fibre runs are installed. Just waiting for the firbe man to install and test. It took 2 hours to get the new cabinet up due to horrible walls that dosnt look like it would take the weight of the new cabinet The next cabinet should be alot easier to swap as there no fibre spur. (He hopes) I'm also on hoilday next week
newpersn Posted July 24, 2015 Author Posted July 24, 2015 Swapped the last cabinet in our dt rooms. Took the cabinet off the wall and one of the old cables snapped... (over tighten cable tie make it catch) Replaced one wire that was going the deputy head office with 4 new wires. Also ran new wires across the dt room in the beams. (Thanks to our caretaker who went up the ladder) All the fibre runs are done and connected. Just need some traffic going though them.
caffrey Posted July 26, 2015 Posted July 26, 2015 Replace 6 projectors (2 ceiling, 4 wall mount) - already done Sort out WIFI and filtering, sort out new DC and sort out the storage Fit a few PC's, new MFD's are coming too so there's papercut to sort out All the usual IT admin stuff And Friday I was helping out the caretakers in F&N, it's getting refit and I've been doing the plastering for them.... (I also replaced all network cabling / data points) I'm sure there's other stuff to be done but I've still got 15 days holidays to take before September...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now