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Yep. It's that time to start planing your summer work. Always nice to know what other members are doing

 

• moving internet provider

• office 365 move.

• Windows 10 rollout (maybe)

And other bits.

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Joining 2 more schools to the MAT network.

Re patch all the data cabinets in 1 school

Install Windows 10 on the reaming machines (MAT wide). Most should be done before summer.

Replace the HDD's for SSD's in one of the primary schools.

Dump VMware and replace for Hyper-v

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OM1 Fibre is all being upgraded to OM3...need a damn hydrolic machine to lift the man hole covers that have been concreted in place.

All analog and digital phones are being replaced with VoIP ones, and setting up FreePBX (Sangoma S300/500/700 phones, zero touch setup woop woop)

New ISP + new firewall (setting this up now...45 day lead time, done in 18 days instead :D)

Roughly 60 new network points being installed in various locations all over the school

Aerohive wireless network consisting of 50 APs going in

 

IF we get all that done with time to spare then i'll be documenting all the cabs in the school, and then repatching as many as possible to go super duper tidy.

 

Last week I installed/replaced (depending on location) 11 new switches to bring us up to PoE in most locations ready for the phones and wireless. Still one or two areas that'll need injectors for the time being though unfortunately, but no more than 2 in any cab thankfully.

 

Got a bunch of other small tasks to do on top of this, like enabling single sign on for various services etc. but not worth listing all the little jobs

 

Dump VMware and replace for Hyper-v

 

I wanted to do that, but I love VMware so much....going to wait until the nano server now though, due to having zero disks in any of our servers.

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How long does it take to deploy Windows 10? I did a fresh install on my i5 PC at home the other day from a USB3 pen drive to an SSD and it was done and dusted within 10 minutes!

 

Getting to the stage where it takes longer to take apart the packaging than it does to actually configure the PC software wise :D

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How long does it take to deploy Windows 10? I did a fresh install on my i5 PC at home the other day from a USB3 pen drive to an SSD and it was done and dusted within 10 minutes!

 

Getting to the stage where it takes longer to take apart the packaging than it does to actually configure the PC software wise :D

 

20 - 30 mins each for our base image using SCCM.

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I started a couple of weeks ago.

 

Few new IT areas to make sure is working.

A ton of cabling work: New phone system, spare networking etc.

CCTV galore.

Usual holiday maintenance.

 

Think I'm on page two of my list almost page three to make sure nothing is missed.

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Office 2016

OS X El Capitan rollout (we always run one behind)

CS5.5->CS6 (Creative Cloud eh?)

 

Very little cost implication for us, as CS6 was included as a maintenance update. We're 100% SSD, sticking to Windows 7, our hardware is fine, so might be a quiet one (touch wood).

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So far.....

 

Network and fibre work to support building refurbishment.

New PCs ~80-odd.

New EES agreement

Windows 10 rollout

Office 2016 rollout (once I've gone through the terrible software list to see what breaks)

New copiers across the site.

Hypervisor upgrade

Possible Hypervisor move to Hyper-V (if I can get a sensible window to do it in)

 

and many things I'm probably forgetting...

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Replace ICT suite

Replace HDDs in teacher PCs with SSDs

Replacement of phone system

Office rollout

Look at creating W10 image

Finalise print solution to implement in oct half term

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About 400-500 meters of fibre to install to a new sports hall that is currently being constructed (plus additional cables for telephones, alarms etc)

And that's about it so far (unless someone comes up with a request in the next couple of days as our budgets shut next Wednesday!)

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