GrumbleDook Posted March 26, 2007 Posted March 26, 2007 Ok folks ... thanks for your last contribution to the surveys ... THe next survey is up and running (apologies for the delay ... I was trying to actually have a life ... I'd heard that it was fun, but it seemed over-rated to me) How many desktops do you support? I am not looking for laptops (even under a laptops for students scheme) or even admin desktops ... just plain old classroom or IT Suite boxes (or terminals for those that want to pick hairs!)
_Bat_ Posted March 26, 2007 Posted March 26, 2007 623 XP Pro Desktops Ouch. I only have about 80, but admittedly, it's not them that takes up most of my time. You don't do that by yourself do you? 8O
Midget Posted March 26, 2007 Posted March 26, 2007 i hope thats not by yourself, i thought 380 machines on my own was bad enough
_Bat_ Posted March 26, 2007 Posted March 26, 2007 I didn't realise people had so many desktop computers... I'd say my desktops only take up 10% of my standard week both hardware and software wise (at least it has been that way until recently because I am now replacing and imaging over half of those, plus I'll end up with quite a few more).
tosca925 Posted March 26, 2007 Posted March 26, 2007 there are two of us, add to that the 146 staff laptops (which cause more grief than all the desktops put together)
localzuk Posted March 26, 2007 Posted March 26, 2007 I only have 80 to manage, plus 80 laptops and admin machines (plus printers and the like). But this number will be growing soon as we are replacing a room this summer and the old ones will become thin terminals so I will then have 110 desktops... Do other schools do this? Use the old machines after they have been 'replaced' - by putting them around the school?
maniac Posted March 26, 2007 Posted March 26, 2007 Errr, at a guess here, as I've not got exact numbers. around 350 student desktop machines, about 80 or so staff admin machines. Then add onto that, 10 servers, 4 technician desktops, around 90 student laptops, and about 160 or so staff laptops, 26 wireless network access points, about 60 switches in 11 cabinets and more cabling that you can shake a stick at! :D:D
Geoff Posted March 27, 2007 Posted March 27, 2007 I presume this is per desktop per school, yes? If so, practically none. I only really do servers and networking now. Granted if there's an emergency other the other guys need a hand I can muck in and help though.
Halfmad Posted March 27, 2007 Posted March 27, 2007 Main school 350 desktops 120 laptops 4 win 2003 servers 1 G4 Os9 server each feeder (shared support - although I seem to do most of it!) 80 desktops 60 laptops 1 Win NT4 or 2003 server Total: 830 desktops 480 laptops 11 servers 7 sites. On my own. Fortunately the councils comms department run most of the network hardware so switches etc are mostly covered by them unless it's an emergency.
Halfmad Posted March 27, 2007 Posted March 27, 2007 Do other schools do this? Use the old machines after they have been 'replaced' - by putting them around the school? Yes, we had over 100 Windows 95 clients when I started here, I've got it down to about 20 with a very good image that can be whacked on in 10 mins if anything happens to them. Even now though I'm being asked to move Windows 98 PCs from one classroom to another after replacing them with new, I'm told by management that I can't dispose of them because they refuse to pay the disposal costs and that each PC, whether good or not counts towards our computers/student ratio... silly situation! It's even worse in the primaries.
gwendes Posted April 13, 2007 Posted April 13, 2007 Personally I only have 27 desktops and 30 laptops... but I help out in the main building too which is about 500
sqdge Posted April 13, 2007 Posted April 13, 2007 Do other schools do this? Use the old machines after they have been 'replaced' - by putting them around the school? We will use old computers until they properly die (as in smoke and everything) - and even then I will cannabilise several 'broken' machines to form one working machine. However, recently, we gave 30+ desktops to charity since we ran out of storage. I don't look after a big school, so I think we only have about 60 desktops - but this number is growing all the time.
Geoff Posted April 13, 2007 Posted April 13, 2007 Yes we used to cannibalise old machines for parts. Especially laptops. Or occasionally build a frankin-server out of several machines and stuck Linux on it. However our current stock will be spared this fate. They'll be converted to thin clients instead as we're moving to Citrix.
witch Posted April 13, 2007 Posted April 13, 2007 100 desktops over 2 sites (but then I am part-time)
elsiegee40 Posted April 13, 2007 Posted April 13, 2007 Let's gets some scale on this! We've got 21 class desktops and 5 admin desktops and the server... Hopefully that will be 23 class desktops by the summer! I'm part-time!
kestrel1 Posted April 21, 2007 Posted April 21, 2007 However our current stock will be spared this fate. They'll be converted to thin clients instead as we're moving to Citrix. Out of interest, how are you going to convert the machines? Are going to use ThinStation? or have you looked at this: http://www.precedence.co.uk/products/thinit/ We have a Thin Client network & I have used both of the above. ThinStation takes some setting up, but is free. ThinIT is not free, but works very well. Precedence are even producing thier own Thin client machines. Very small footprint & work real well. Try to avoid ThinTune. The newer machines are not as good as the older ones.
Geoff Posted April 21, 2007 Posted April 21, 2007 Neither, we'll be using Etherboot. http://www.etherboot.org/wiki/about
kestrel1 Posted April 23, 2007 Posted April 23, 2007 Looks to be a similar project to ThinStation. It is an excellent idea though, to turn your old hardware into thin clients. I must admit I have moved away from turning the old legacy machine into thinclient, but have still got some running on the network. These are mostly Pentium 233mhz machines. I found that uping the system memory does help though. I think the ones I have running have 128mb ram. They run Windows 2003 server with no problem. Anyway, good luck with this project.
StewartKnight Posted April 23, 2007 Posted April 23, 2007 When you say support, does that include teachers thinking that their personal computers at home are also part of the network???
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