ticker Posted July 4, 2006 Posted July 4, 2006 That time is nearly here, summer hols. When teachers and student leave us for six weeks and the real work begins. don’t know if most or any of u work the hols but I can tell this one is going to be hard been putting together a summer job list and probably got enough to last a year never mind 6 weeks and I keep adding to it. Here’s just a small selection. Replace Print server Replace ISA server Final phase wireless network Rewiring science and FT Video editing suite a load of software Move offices New technician starts Oh and develop the new learning platform What’s everybody else got planned? Beside a well earned break.
DMcCoy Posted July 4, 2006 Posted July 4, 2006 Replace sims server Replace ISA server Second ISA server Reimage all client Package and deploy all applications after client refresh squidguard/dansguardian server Retire old mail server Implement exchange for all users, configure profiles for mandatory profiles. New year in Sims.net New year in bromcom Migrate web server New antivirus deployment (symantec -> Nod) Reconfigure Mac server for AD integration Reimage Mac clients Organise cabling for 3 main areas of the building rewrite ICT policies backup firewall implement layer 3 vlans and routing Any other things I can't remember off the top of my head
Gatt Posted July 4, 2006 Posted July 4, 2006 Move all staff PC's to correct domain Create new image for Pupil PCs Rebuild Intranet & File Servers (and poss DC) Import 1200 users into AD - can at least just ipen excel and click "add users" - then deal with any duplications Remove 150 CD/DVD/FDD drives Replace ISA Server with Dansguard or Censornet Install & Config Moodle Finalise new Group Policy structure for kiddies Train new ICT Technician
Dos_Box Posted July 4, 2006 Posted July 4, 2006 Remove entire network, hardware, servers, office and relocate to new building. Once in new building unpack 50-ish new PCs' and set them up, after I've ensured the relocated kit is working correctly.
indiegirl Posted July 4, 2006 Posted July 4, 2006 Re-do entire Art/Music suite and redeploy old machines to Admin staff. Rebuild two ICT suites (for me only) Organise handover documentation for new staff member A general tidyup of rooms, paperwork, network, etc Reinstallation of Bromcom 'Winfolder' (new version) across all staff PCs (easy, thank god) New student / staff creation (on network, Sims, Bromcom, Truancy Call etc etc) Probably other stuff that a) I have forgotten and b) I don't really care about... Well, that's all I have planned. I daresay the NM has much less...... ;-)
Disease Posted July 4, 2006 Posted July 4, 2006 Jake and ME have to do........ Re-wire Head of year block Re-wire Music Install New swipe Card door security system. Install/build 5 Disaster Recovery Servers Install backup external Cat5E Links to buildings 32 unit room upgrade Re-Clone 400 units Work on VLE Install NEw Admin Fileserver Install New Exchange Server install 5 new machines in Music Get installed problamatic intranet software Fix Spector Install Norton Corporate 10 resuite 3 rooms inc. install of IWB and Projector -we do this in house. look at Mandatory Profiles upgrade remaining fibre links to Gigabit Replace 200 CRT's with 200 TFT's and probably loads of other things I have forgotten.
Norphy Posted July 4, 2006 Posted July 4, 2006 Ultan and myself are going to: install a network cable into each classroom Recable at least one computer room, maybe more depending on time Install cabling in new computer room Install extra network cabling in server room Add wireless link to sports hall Along with the usual reimaging of computer rooms and other miscellaneous maintenance tasks While that is going on, our VLE is allegedly going to be installed and if I can pin down the ICT coordinator some new projectors will be as well.
Irazmus Posted July 4, 2006 Posted July 4, 2006 I need to: Build admin RIS image Modify curriculum RIS images Reimage all admin & curriculum machines Build new Success Maker server Rebuild 10 iMac's for Success Maker Fix problem in user profiles Build & install firewall/proxy Change IP range Finish building website Link OSX mailserver to AD Add new students Look for holes in new AUP (SMT created) Build machine for OCS and install Network documentation DRP Software/Licensing audit Convert iMacs to webkiosks Build new admin machines Plan & cost replacement network - create proposal Finish modifying MRBS - Roll out Implement helpdesk Upgrade to SSPR 2.1 But as I'm not contracted for the summer hols, my list is more likely to be: Find book Find tree Read Unless I can get the school to authorise some overtime
openhgs Posted July 4, 2006 Posted July 4, 2006 It looks like I've got it easy compared to everyone else : install an LTSP network - 2 servers, 30 thin clients chuck out a load of junk go on holiday and thats it!
steve Posted July 4, 2006 Posted July 4, 2006 And you all think you've got it hard: Day 1: I've got to discover electricty, harness it, create the national grid ...... Day 2: Invent the transistor, make the first semiconductor, write an operating system ..... Day 3: Create the worlds first telephone, unleash a telecoms revolution, setup the internet across the world... Day 4: Have a nap Day 5: Setup the principals of currency, develope democarcy, implement free education for all the countries children .... Then in the second week I need to make a time machine to go back and do all that. Rest of the hols i'm free (time machine) For all thos python fans out there
Jake Posted July 4, 2006 Posted July 4, 2006 Electricity !? Oh...how we would have loved to have to discover electricity. Back in our day, we had to pay them to let us discover fire, then we would work on other research for 25 hours a day, for tuppence a year, come home where our fathers would beat us to death with a chainsaw and dance merry hell on our graves
Ric_ Posted July 4, 2006 Posted July 4, 2006 Not a busy Summer this year... did the big stuff last year. Amongst other things I have to: * Replace most unmanaged switches for managed switches * Hang the Bluesocket APs on the walls * Do a little bit of computer configuration * Build a server * Move some server roles about to spread the load * Tidy up a bit
_Bat_ Posted July 4, 2006 Posted July 4, 2006 Two jobs... 1. Throw servers out of window 2. Throw client machines out of window Woohoo! Then no more things can go wrong!! No computers, no problems (for me anyway). We are designing a poster for my office door that says: - "Before knocking, please check the following: - Have you tried turning it off and on again? - Are you sure it is plugged in?" While taken from "the IT crowd", I think it will cut my work by 50%, haha.
NetworkGeezer Posted July 4, 2006 Posted July 4, 2006 Jake and ME have to do........ Re-wire Head of year block Re-wire Music Install New swipe Card door security system. Install/build 5 Disaster Recovery Servers Install backup external Cat5E Links to buildings 32 unit room upgrade Re-Clone 400 units Work on VLE Install NEw Admin Fileserver Install New Exchange Server install 5 new machines in Music Get installed problamatic intranet software Fix Spector Install Norton Corporate 10 resuite 3 rooms inc. install of IWB and Projector -we do this in house. look at Mandatory Profiles upgrade remaining fibre links to Gigabit Replace 200 CRT's with 200 TFT's and probably loads of other things I have forgotten. Wow! Why don't you set up your contracting business. You seem to do alot more of sparky stuff then alot of techs.
Mintsoft Posted July 4, 2006 Posted July 4, 2006 Puttin me feet up, I'm term-time *awaits onslaught* Ahh, same here! its probably why all those maintenance tasks I need to do never get done, ahh well!
Nij.UK Posted July 4, 2006 Posted July 4, 2006 sounds like there is going to be a lot of work going on in the summer with you guys..... I can gladly say that im only going to be in for 3 weeks this summer holiday and i dont really have a lot going on this summer which is a nice change, Install and configure new Core Switch Reconfigure ISA server Create new images for student PC's Image all student PC's
e_g_r Posted July 4, 2006 Posted July 4, 2006 No budget so i think this summer we will clean mice and sunbath on the playing fields.
unixman Posted July 4, 2006 Posted July 4, 2006 Electricity !? Oh...how we would have loved to have to discover electricity... A classic from the Unix fortune file... the greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison, who was a brilliant inventor despite the fact that he had little formal education and lived in New Jersey. Edison's first major invention in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon be found in thousands of American homes, where it basically sat until 1923, when the record was invented. But Edison's greatest achievement came in 1879, when he invented the electric company. Edison's design was a brilliant adaptation of the simple electrical circuit: the electric company sends electricity through a wire to a customer, then immediately gets the electricity back through another wire, then (this is the brilliant part) sends it right back to the customer again. This means that an electric company can sell a customer the same batch of electricity thousands of times a day and never get caught, since very few customers take the time to examine their electricity closely. In fact the last year any new electricity was generated in the United States was 1937; the electric companies have been merely re-elling it ever since, which is why they have so much free time to apply for rate increases. -- Dave Barry, "What is Electricity?"
bossman Posted July 4, 2006 Posted July 4, 2006 Not much to do here except: * Cable and switches for new ICT suite * Set up workstations, printers and interactive whiteboard for above * Another 6 interactive whiteboards to install. * Load balance print servers. * Build two 2TB NAS servers and configure for backups * Configure live state full metal restore anywhere for both servers and clients using acronis. * Whole school rebuild clients. * Comms room to re-cable * Install new ups * Cluster all Cisco switches for future Vlans * Move switches into cabinet of their own making room for extra servers * Clean all hardware and remove all dust and clegg and this is just on the first day. Hope I entice Webman to show his face but wouldn't blame him if he didn't.
Pottsey Posted July 4, 2006 Posted July 4, 2006 I try and get jobs done in term time as much as possible. The last 2 weeks being pretty good as the computers rarely go on apart from when I let the kids hook up the playstation on the Interactive whiteboard’s and that’s doesn’t need the server. As long as I inform everyone I can get away with the server being down for part of the last 2 weeks. Sports days are also good times to work. My jobs for the last few weeks are to finish setting up the new server and policies, setup 20 computers 10 of which I have done. Set up the IT suite with new tables, which arrived today. Cable some more computers so another 5 to 10 in various rooms are online. Fiddle with the wireless network as a few spots are a little on the weak side for my liking. All of which should be get done with time to spare. Then I take the full summer holidays off. Not a chance I will be in apart from emergencies which are very rare.
john Posted July 4, 2006 Posted July 4, 2006 The list for me is endless: New PCs to spec and order New PCs to install Old ones to data wipe and send to charity Clear server room for new AC install Re-cable server room once new AC is installed Fix the blasted collator so it actually works Install new photocopiers Re-image 300 PCs once about 20 images are built Upgrade ram in lots of PCs (Thanks Sophos!) Tidy Store room and Office Defrost Fridge Finish IT inventory of all hardware Bin the dead consumerables that are mounting up Replace printers Move some staff from one office to another whilst builders are in Move them back once builders have left Paint and Decorate Clean Carpets Neaten up IT room wiring Re-write various policys Test using Mandatory profiles for students Add new students to the system Install lots of new software New Dataloggers to play with New Servers to install (phase 3 of 3/4) and probably a million other things between now and September
webman Posted July 4, 2006 Posted July 4, 2006 Paint and Decorate Clean Carpets Surely not!? 8O :? Or are they some obscure eduactional software package you have to install? 8)
Sylv3r Posted July 4, 2006 Posted July 4, 2006 I am hopefully planning on: * VLAN the network using our HP Procurve switches - Not even thought about how to do it yet! * Finish off our school wireless network across the whole school (another 5 or 6 APs should do it) * Build new Censornet box (Hopefully Censornet 4) * Put together the finishing touches of a 6th Form student laptop scheme * Reinstall Veritas on Curriculum Network * Create a WSUS server for admin network * Prepare Network Diagrams * Create new packages for Quicktime, Flash, etc * Create new backup storage server for curriculum server using Buffalo Terrastation * Build new FirstClass server * Roll out Symantec Corporate AntiVirus to all servers and Workstations * Defrag Servers * Software Audit * Add new students / staff to network * Sims End of Year Procedures * Image all Curriculum workstations * Migrate website to a new webserver * 50 new machines to unbox and add to the network * Implement Alice Library System * Upgrade RAM on 15 machines * Oversee 7 data projector installations Thats what ive got wrote down so far - still another 3 weeks to go so plenty time for more jobs!!
john Posted July 5, 2006 Posted July 5, 2006 Paint and Decorate Clean Carpets Surely not!? 8O :? Or are they some obscure eduactional software package you have to install? 8) Yeah, ones made by Dulux and the other by some firm that I fogot the name of..... Its far easier to DIY it then its done
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