Little-Miss Posted October 20, 2008 Posted October 20, 2008 (edited) I mean physically, cds and boxes. I've got a cupboard full to the brim with Primary software, some of it ancient. I'm trying to organise it as i want to make a new ghost image. Just got me thinking...how have you got yours organised?..i might do mine by subject, Key stage wouldn't work. Edited October 20, 2008 by Little-Miss translating little-miss language to english
powdarrmonkey Posted October 20, 2008 Posted October 20, 2008 Do you mean on the start menu? By department, but we're secondary.
Little-Miss Posted October 20, 2008 Author Posted October 20, 2008 Sorry, didnt explain myself too well, the actual disks and cases..
powdarrmonkey Posted October 20, 2008 Posted October 20, 2008 I cache them all to a NAS, ordered by name, and then try and get rid of the disks. Licenses etc go into a big file.
User3204 Posted October 20, 2008 Posted October 20, 2008 It's sorted under the mythic system - "...seek and ye shall find, (if you are worthy)" Or rather, disks are copied to the network CD Server, codes are put onto a technicians share\folder, and then the disks are thrown into boxes and put into storage (IE lost)..
Sylv3r Posted October 20, 2008 Posted October 20, 2008 One copy of each disk is put into a CD wallet. Seperate wallets for each department, Whole School, Drivers and Microsoft Select Agreement. Serials are added to our WIKI.
torry_loon Posted October 20, 2008 Posted October 20, 2008 I keep all mine in those CD wallets that Microsoft give you to store all those software CDs they keep sending us as part of their Schools license agreement. They seem to be full of driver CDs and copies of various Linux distros.
Sirbendy Posted October 21, 2008 Posted October 21, 2008 I've started to ISO every disk we get, chuck it onto our TeraStation in categorised folders, with licenses in a text file where needed. The legacy system is on our staff shared area, in a restricted folder called ITAdmin. That has software, utilities, accounts, drivers etc. I make a point of handing the physical media back, as it can't come back and bite me in the bum when they can't find it.
witch Posted October 21, 2008 Posted October 21, 2008 I have a copier paper box for each subject with their CDs etc in. My CDs - op syst, drivers etc are in those CD filing boxes Licences are in the filing cabinet I recently had a big purge of software that we don't have on the system (no network licence in most cases). I gave the staff a list of what I considered vaguely useful stuff - eg 'tizzy's toybox- 3 copies' so they could use them if they want to. Those are just on a separate shelf.
Little-Miss Posted October 21, 2008 Author Posted October 21, 2008 Hmm, maybe archiving them off somewhere seems to be the plan. May start that when i've settled in a bit more.
SpuffMonkey Posted October 21, 2008 Posted October 21, 2008 We've got one of those big aluminium cases with lots of hanging sleeves, for most stuff.
bossman Posted October 21, 2008 Posted October 21, 2008 DJ box full of discs with excel spreadsheet to reference them pretty cheap around £15 for 500 numbered capacity.
WithoutMotive Posted October 21, 2008 Posted October 21, 2008 All our software CDs are in a cupboard in our office categorized into departments. I've often wondered whether to leave responsibility for CDs to the relevant department after we have installed it.
Domino Posted October 21, 2008 Posted October 21, 2008 All our softwares physical media is in a big rollerdoor locked cabinet with each piece of software in a labelled archive-style folder with the manuals/licence agreement,etc
Sirbendy Posted October 21, 2008 Posted October 21, 2008 I find they tend to lose them, then come up and insist that "IT had them last". Hence I ISO everything. I can just turn and laugh.
WithoutMotive Posted October 21, 2008 Posted October 21, 2008 Yeah, there is that problem, suppose. This reminds me, we should really have a sort out of all our old "never ever used" software.
dave.81 Posted October 21, 2008 Posted October 21, 2008 Mines in piles, many of them all around the office...
TechMonkey Posted October 21, 2008 Posted October 21, 2008 Yeah, there is that problem, suppose. This reminds me, we should really have a sort out of all our old "never ever used" software. We are in the process of this. Part "we know this is never used so remove it, archive the software and see if there are complaints" plus going to each department and saying "Please provide us with a list of software you use and where it is referenced in your schemes of work". We are slightly flexible but we are fed up of fifty million language applications that all overlap and get used either never or once a year. As for our storage. We have CD's in cases in racks, licenses are in a document folder and all referenced in a spreadsheet. Not sure we could ISO everything! Aiming to get this all sorted into the help desk once it is up and running and settled down.
ricki Posted October 21, 2008 Posted October 21, 2008 hi I copy the disks to a server and then create a 2 htlm pages with links to the correct folders. One has the site licience programs and the other has extra programs sorted by department. Just an idea. Richard
Pete10141748 Posted October 21, 2008 Posted October 21, 2008 We copied all of our CDs to a HDD to store them in case of "misplacement" by other members of staff. The CD's themselves are divided into 3 sections: Everything we run via the network is stored in a metal DJ-style CD case. All of our drivers CDs, OS CDs etc. are on 1 shelf of a cupboard. All of the software which requires a license code when installing is on another shelf in the cupboard. We so rarely have to use an actual CD that they are in no particular order beyond that.
enjay Posted October 21, 2008 Posted October 21, 2008 I take copies of the CDs, and keep these in lever arch folders, sorted by department. The originals I give back to the departments, as I simply don't have the storage space for all those boxes.
Midget Posted October 21, 2008 Posted October 21, 2008 Mine are organised by colour, I knew I shouldn't have taken on that OCD intern
AngryTechnician Posted October 21, 2008 Posted October 21, 2008 I make a point of handing the physical media back, as it can't come back and bite me in the bum when they can't find it. I do the same, anything that comes to me from another member of staff goes back in their pigeon hole after copying to our Software share. Anything that comes directly to me from the supplier goes in my round file.
bondbill2k2 Posted May 4, 2012 Posted May 4, 2012 (edited) On a NAS with tech only share access with serials and config details in text files. Physical discs are in a cupboard I organised last year but has once again returned to the "Are you sure its in here?" storage system. Wayyyyyyyy too much old software on the system, I made an attempt to clear it out on the image for our new computers lat year but each department returned their lists with pretty much everything ticked. Just remove their shortcuts and see if complaints begin Edited May 4, 2012 by bondbill2k2
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