Summer projects...

[Little-Miss]

So, it's that time of year again...

 

Got any big plans for the school?

 

I'm going to throw the current server out the window and have a lovely vanilla network put in its place.

 

The PTA have paid for a trolley of laptops. Tried to explain to head that money would be much better spent elsewhere, like in the infant ict suite....i was wrong apparently. Grr

 

Infant ICT Suite having a bit of a make over, adding 7 new pc's which is really annoying cus id much rather replace them all instead of just adding new ones....oh well, cant win them all...

 

And apparently im building the new school website too....

[CyberNerd]

The PTA have paid for a trolley of laptops. Tried to explain to head that money would be much better spent elsewhere, like in the infant ict suite....i was wrong apparently. Grr

 

did you mean PiTA ?

 

Urban Dictionary: PITA

[maniac]

OK, here goes.

 

• RM CC3 going out, 4 brand new servers coming in and vanilla network being setup (already started)
  
• New business and enterprise area being created with brand new cabling being put in for 3 ICT areas.
  
• 30 brand new workstations for our new Business and Enterprise area coming in
  
• Another 30 moving from the current ICT areas upstairs to the new business and enterprise area
  
• 30 new laptops for business and enterprise area
  
• 15 new laptops for performing arts
  
• 30 netbooks for Humanities
  
• 20 new laptops for staff
  
• 60 Dell GX60 workstations having RAM upgrades and being given to the maths department (15 per room for the 4 rooms they have)
  
• All exisiting laptops need re-imaging onto the new network (around 300 machines)
  
• Learning platform coming on-line in september, preparations for that
  
• New projector and whiteboard installations in 2 rooms
  
• Lots of AV work in the new business and enterprise area
  
• Disposal of all CRT monitors in the school (hooray!)
  

 

And a ton of other stuff as well! We've already started some of this work.

[DAckroyd]

how many people do you have working on that Manic?

 

I'm hoping I might beable to work on our new domain over the summer as I haven't been able to work on it much in term time as I get disturbed working on site and it's not possible for me to work from home under H&S - will probly start in september with the same domain as we currently have dieing under us now

[steveg]

We've got a pretty quiet summer this year for once (although i'm sure they'll find more for us to do between now and then):

 

Get quotes for, order and setup 67 netbooks

Order and install 17 new pc's in IT suite, upgrade ram in existing ones, re-image and deploy to classes

Re-image 30 class pc's

Document all network points in the school and sort out the mess of a comms cabinet

Finish installing the VOIP phone system and wireless network that I started 6 months ago (currently working but could work better!)

Tidy the office (prob 2 day job at least!)

Sort out garage full of old pc's

 

Few other little bits as well but can't think of much else at the moment. I want to take at least 2 weeks leave as well.

 

Steve

[jcs808]

Replace 160 desktop computers

Upgrade, re-image and re-issue 70 of those being replaced

Recycle or donate the rest

Replace two of our DC's

 

And the biggest job ... tidy the workshop

[maniac]

how many people do you have working on that Manic?

 

I'm hoping I might beable to work on our new domain over the summer as I haven't been able to work on it much in term time as I get disturbed working on site and it's not possible for me to work from home under H&S - will probly start in september with the same domain as we currently have dieing under us now

 

There's 3 of us. some of the work like the Projector installations and cabling is contracted in, and I've also got an engineer for 2 days to set up my Exchange server as I'm not that good with exchange at that level. Apart from those jobs, everything else is being done in house.

[pete]

hmm, I need to build the list on the office whiteboard

 

Going from physical servers to Xen guests

New Modern Languages IT Room (assuming they decide what they want)

New machines for art block build

Install backup server cabinet in remote building and run cabling for it

Recable server rack (reduce kvm cruft, now it's mostly drac and ilo)

Trace and rewire a couple of cabinets

Deploy Office 2007

Reimage most rooms

General TLC and fixing of minor problems.

Serious testing of backbone switch and possible replacement

Annual tidy for office and storeroom

 

Plus other things I've probably forgotten atm

 

...uphill, in the snow, both ways, banging rocks together to make network packets etc.

[HodgeHi]

My list consists of

• Re-build of Domain controllers
  
• Rebuild of OS X Servers
  
• Rebuild of 25 imacs
  
• Rebuild of 36 new imacs
  
• Rebuild of 15 laptops
  
• rebuild of 10 mac minis
  
• configuration of 5 switches
  
• configuration of new IP Range
  
• Re-create user accounts
  
• re-create user home dirs
  
• re-create GPOs
  
• install and test wireless WDS system
  
• install StudyWiz
  
• move all machines to new school 10 minutes away
  
• cable up all patch panels and switches
  
• re-configure mail server
  
• re-configure imaps connection
  
• re-create new website for new school.
  

 

in 4 weeks

 

Oh and only me!

[AngryITGuy]

The job list so far is:

 

• Clean and reimage all 66 staff laptops
  
• Clean and reimage all 142 student laptops
  
• Replace all curriculum workstations and monitors with new ones all 258 of them
  
• Virtualise student file servers
  
• Install 10 new managed Cisco Access points
  
• Clean all school projectors
  
• Setup 20 new workstations for staff
  
• Dispose of old kit
  
• Rewire all network cabinets
  
• Tidy office
  
• Implement file screens and disk quotas for staff
  
• New whiteboard and projector in two rooms
  

[Gatt]

• Replace 75 PCs with 75 band spanking new PCs
  
• rebuild domains - moving from 2 domains (staff & pupils) to a single domain due to wide spread IT demand in school
  
• implement DR plan
  
• image approx 300 PCs with new images (hopefully win7!)
  
• update asset inventory ( that can be the new tech's job - if im in a BOFH mood)
  
• arrange disposal of all old PCs/Monitors/laptops/printers and toner
  
• Tidy up my office!
  

Looks like I'll be taking my hols just as the school re-opens!

[sparkeh]

Unfortunately all three of my schools are having major building work done so can't go in much and pretty nuch scuppered my plans. One having asbestos removed so a real no-no there.

 

However, in the limited time I hope to achieve:

 

School 1:

x2 whiteboards installed

Recable x3 refurbished classrooms

rebuild of 60 CC3 machines

Move all multimedia to dedicated server

Finish up work on joining curriculum and admin domains and give all staff access to SIMS

 

School 2:

CC4 install

 

School 3:

Rebuild 60 machines

Rewire main comms cab (its such a state)

 

Looking at it now, it seems woefully optimistic given the time I've got

[K.C.Leblanc]

Two ancient servers are going, being replaced with two new servers, a SAN and some ESX. This will include a new rack for the Server room and a lot of tidying up.

 

We're also adding in Exchange to the above.

 

VLANing our network (we share a broadcast domain with another school at the moment so can't use DHCP ).

 

10 classroom PCs and some admin/office PCs.

 

We've already done two ICT suites.

[Soulfish]

Got a lot to do this summer

 

• Lay fibre from all 10 comms cabinets to new server room
  
• Install new racks and UPS and move servers into new server room
  
• Virtualise all existing services on Xen
  
• Create new 2008 (r2 possibly) domain and migrate all users to it
  
• Migrate all home directories and public folders to new 7110
  
• Reimage all PCs and laptops
  
• Setup new Moodle install
  
• Rebuild the school website
  

 

I'm sure there's plenty of other things I've forgotten as well

[localzuk]

Well, if I can get decisions out of my boss, the projects will be

 

1. Oversee the installation of 2 new photocopiers in our Reprographics dept

2. Oversee the installation of whole site managed wireless

3. Re-address every device in the school (IP address range changes)

4. Introduce a new edge firewall between the LAN and WAN

5. Clean all screens

6. Reimage all machines with new updates and software

7. Install half a dozen machines in our music dept.

8. Recable our server cabinet

9. Update our Asterisk phone server from 1.2 to 1.4 or 1.6

10. Finish our cashless catering system software

11. Deploy cashless catering system in kitchen, sandwich hut and reception.

12. Finish our locker booking system

13. Probably 1000 other tasks I hadn't planned on, due to other people not telling me what they're doing.

[WStore_Dan]

Looks like there are some busy projects going on for all of you over the summer! If any of you would like comparitive quotes for any of the equipment you are after from desktops & netbooks to servers and SAN then please get in touch as I'm sure you'll be pleasantly surprised at our pricing and support.

 

We've recently helped quite a few EduGeek members with desktop orders, notebook orders and a few large server & SAN requirements so it would be great to hear from you to see how we can help to save you money!

 

Many thanks

[Sirbendy]

Hmm.

 

1. Flog off all of our IT kit that stays

2. Move all of our IT kit that's moving to the new site and plumb it in.

3. Take the data from this network over there

4. Create users

5. Run up the new site on DNN

6. Set up e-mail/drive maps/ESXi/Move the virtualised machinery to the ESXi Servers

7. Test repeatedly.

8. Test the AV matrices/AV provision/BMS/GSHS/UPS/ and so on

9. Learn Zenworks

10. Close the old site down for the last time. Lock the doors, turn the lights out.

11. Help the staff move all their junk.

 

All fun.

[tmcd35]

Fairly busy 7 weeks, especially when you take holidays in to account. Most of the time there will only be one of us in doing the work:

 

• Clean/Repait/Upgrade/Sort Out/Make Nice all staff laptops (about 60)
  
• Re-image every machine in the school - bye bye Winsuite
  
• Delete the Terminal Server
  
• Load balance Virtual Server 2005R2 VM's
  
• Move Phoenix, Eclipse and Booking Pro to their own VM's
  
• Install new nComputing system in Library
  
• 30 New PC's in Room1
  
• Upgrade memory (using spares from old Room 1 machines) in Room 3
  
• Juggle Monitors around the school, getting rid of CRTs and replacing broken TFTs
  
• Assign recon laptops to Art, Maths and SEN
  
• Install SoftXpand system in SEN
  
• Upgrade/move various Admin/Staff workstations
  
• Inventory everything
  
• Do end of term back-ups
  
• IWB,Proj+Speaker install in 1 room
  
• Scrape all the old monitors, printers, pc's, etc
  

 

Almost certainly more, but can't think what yet!

Edited July 1, 2009 by plexer
Surely you meant bye to winsuite and not buy, you don't want more winsuite

[TNE]

I see a couple of people are installing new racks so if you would like a comparative quote please send me the details of what you require.

 

Thanks

[Little-Miss]

Yup, bye bye Winsuite my end too!! YAY!

 

I love how the suppliers are using this as an opportunity to plug! Great stuff!

[mattstevenson2005]

Here is what we have got to do in 5 weeks:

 

• install 5 new servers with server 2008 and create new domain

• upgrade 4 current servers to 2008 and add to new domain

• re-setup our 2 WS1000 sophos web filters to new domain

• re-setup our ES1000 sophos spam filter

• reconfigure our avantis cd server to new domain

• install 2 6TB SANs (one to mirror each other over 2x 10GB fibre links)

• All equipment to be split between our 2 data centres on opposite sides of the school site with 2x 24 core siemon 10Gb fibre to link them both together

• Install our new HP 5406zl-48G core switch

• install new HP 2900 secondary core switch

• install 2 new 48 port edge switches

• reconfigure our current 22+ HP edge switches for VLANs

• Transfer all 900+ users data and accounts from old server to brand new SANs

• Transfer 900+ user mailboxes from windows 2003, exchange 2007 to server 2008 again running exchange 2007

• install SharePoint on new server and try and transfer our current sharepoint instance

• scrap the admin network YES!!! and bring all admin users and data to the new single network including SIMS

• Load balance SIMS on our two SQL servers including replicating the SIMS S:\ drive between the 2 servers

• create 8 completely new images for workstations

• install and image 42 new HP dc7900 workstations

• reimage 200+ our current workstations

• install our new Apple Xserve and join to Active Directory

• install our new 8TB XRAID SAN to support Final Cut Studio on our new macs

• create workstation images for our new 20+ Apple iMacs

• install 7 new smart boards 660i

• install 19+ new data sockets in different areas of the school

 

 

Most of this has to be complete by 24th August for exam results week and we only finish for summer on 17th July and there is only one of me to do most of this, I think it's going to be a very tight one this year!

[sparkeh]

Most of this has to be complete by 24th August for exam results week and we only finish for summer on 17th July and there is only one of me to do most of this, I think it's going to be a very tight one this year!

 

 

Just...

[witch]

New Server Install here (2008)

Re image all 80 clients

Re image 20 staff laptops

Sort out website and VLE

 

...and I don't even work in the holidays!

[Edu-IT]

Seeing what some of you lot have to do is making me feel faint!

[russdev]

Not much and I am going to love it...

 

Got new head in Sep so most major work has been done in Easter Hols.

 

So here goes

 

CC4 - SR1

Map Network

Rebuild all the machines

Tidy Server Room / Office

Few big updates on the servers

Increase space in Sims Server

Looking at notfication side of Groundworks

Catch Up on Jobs

Learning Platform Work On the IT Support Area

Documentation

 

Now EduGeek Stuff

 

Two big ones are: -

 

CPD Project

Secret Job Description project can plan that bit more once had meeting with parties involved.

 

Then few more smaller projects and also try and get out of the office and meet few of you at some events.

 

Russ