Summer Project

[pettit87]

As our minds now focus on a lovely 6 week or so break from Teachers we find ourselves thinking - 'What are our summer plans'

 

New Server Builds

Maintenance

Upgrades

Re-Imaging

Networking

 

and the list goes on...

 

My question is - What are your summer plans?

Edited June 5, 2012 by pettit87

[Guest Guest]

My list is:

- Add another Server to replace the job of 6. Using Hyper-V.

- Getting & Image 30 Intel Classmates

- 9 SMART Boards

- Replacement Core Switch

[FN-GM]

We have having a section of the school knocked down, this means relocating cables. We are moving some off our servers in one server room into the other one, in preparation for when that area is knocked down.

[dgsmith]

My question is - What are your summer plans?

 

Fundraise the money to even consider projects! We've love managed wireless and a new ICT suite mainly, but it seems we're out of luck again, for the 4th year running..

 

We have having a section of the school knocked down, this means relocating cables. We are moving some off our servers in one server room into the other one, in preparation for when that area is knocked down.

 

Are you back in the UK now then or still down under?

[Kitkatninja]

We've got a bit going on (server migrations, PC rebuilds, etc), however the project that we're excited about is VDI. We're in the process of starting it now to two rooms, then expand...

[synaesthesia]

Removal of CC3, from scratch implementation of a vanilla+sccm2012 install, as well as new PC (self builds) and some major network testing

[Max_Power]

Most likely a MAC suite for music and iPads distributed through depts. that have asked for them. Few bits of software to deploy for next year, but that's about it.

[Roberto]

As our minds now focus on a lovely 6 week or so break from Teachers we find ourselves thinking - 'What are our summer plans'

 

New Server Builds

Maintenance

Upgrades

Re-Imaging

Networking

 

and the list goes on...

 

My question is - What are your summer plans?

 

Remove CC3 and replace with a vanilla network infrastructure and install Windows 7 on 1500 or so PCs.

Upgrade numerous servers to win 2008r2

Hopefully fix our Bloxx deployment.

Upgrade firmware on all our switches

Convert science rooms to normal teaching rooms with PCs in them.

Convert teaching rooms to science rooms (Yes, I do realise what I said in the line above this. No I don't want to talk about it)

Install new TV signage system

[Davit2005]

1. Fresh new Image build

2. Build another 2008 R2 DC/DNS/DHCP

3. Try and re-work the SAN to store ESXi datastores

4. New Email System and do all the MX records/firewall/ssl certificate etc.

5. New Filtering/Proxy device

6. New Wireless System with new PoE switches.

6. Move the FSMO roles and demote the old 2003 DC.

7. Re-Image 48 New Laptops

8. Have plenty of tea and biscuits

9. Deal with staff who insist on trying to use the system while we are trying minimise the downtime but still need to do the work.

 

Apart from that not much really

[FragglePete]

1. New PCs and Re-Vamp of the Music Department - long over due.

2. New ICT/GFX Suite Build - organising contractors, etc for Power, Data, A/C, etc, etc !

3. AV Installs and shuffling of various Smartboards around the School.

4. Introduce 64Bit Images around the School

5. Drink copious amounts of tea

6. Try and chill out abit

 

Pete

[Domino]

Hide from the Olympics.

[gjdb]

Taking a long vacation, this should be on everyone list as number 1.

[exim]

Taking a long vacation, this should be on everyone list as number 1.

 

Should be, but in reality that's just for teachers

[teejay]

Installing a high availability solution across 2 server rooms and an off-site location. I won't be getting a sun tan this year...

[jimmy_2k]

Replacing our Active Directory with 2 new Server 2008R2 domain controllers. Reimage 600 workstations and rebuild the file server to Server 2008R2 with quotas and restructure the shared folders.

[Sce_Sloper]

Only paid for term-time, so nowt but sunbathing.

Can't even sign on!

[TechMonkey]

Full rebuild of network from CC3 to Vanilla. New 2008R2 servers, Exchange 2010, SQL, Win7 on clients, office 2010 + all software installed as it will ALL be wanted for the first day back, possibly some new clients. Just a small project this year......

[X-13]

Only paid for term-time, so nowt but sunbathing.

Can't even sign on!

 

^ This.

 

Minus the sunbathing.

 

I'm a basement-dweller, through and through.

 

 

The current plan is:

 

Zelda

Assassin's Creed

Zelda

More Zelda

Make some more of my game

Zelda

A bit more Zelda

Cartoons

[HaleStorm]

PAT testing

[Dagaz]

wow three people posting about rm cc to vanilla. must admit it was quite a process 2 years ago but we got it quickly working and are really enjoying its features. we also use DPM for backup too and looking in to TMG 2010 this year.

 

apart from that all we seem to be able to do is pc / laptop / projector and switch replacement. nothing new and exciting really.

[andyturpie]

Removal of CC3/Win server 2003/Win XP for CC4/Win Server 2008R2/Win 7. Complete re image of all laptops and workstations and a clear out of old kit. Must find two weeks hols inbetween as well lol.

[sonofsanta]

Not a lot this year. From now until September...

* Migrate domain over to new DCs, decommision old ones (working on this now)

* Bring new backups up to speed

* Deploy SCCM server to manage FEP, test FEP

* Test Win7, develop policies etc.

* Redo print server on virtual gubbins, switch to scripts for deployment to better handle defaults (GPP and PCounter won't play, I don't think)

* Empty one computer room ready for it to be split into two computer rooms. Empty another computer room to be turned into a teaching room.

* Remove some 70 old machines.

* Shuffle 100 others about.

* Put 100 new ones in.

* Standard end of year stuff (accounts, year change in Facility, VLE...)

* Teach staff how Windows 7 works, even though it's not that different, it just looks different, it is better, honest, yes we did have to change, no you can't have the old one just on your machine...

* Sleep. Or not, as my new born will have landed around 24th August.

 

 

Simple... right? :S

[Pete10141748]

Plans for the summer include;

Running the usual updates to all servers, iPads, software updates (SIMS, FMS, etc) and rollout of any new software / Apps

 

Readying our plan to give every pupil a set of earphones (labelled, bagged etc)

 

Get everything ready for the 8 Tuffcams we'll have for each year group (SD card install, software/drivers installed, tested on each laptop)

 

Install a couple of IWB's and speaker systems, clean all projector, boards, printers and anything else lying around

 

Set up new 6 PC's for Reception and Finance offices

 

Rollover of pupil files to new yeargroup folders & creation of fresh profiles for new classes

 

Create a new image and then re-image of all curriculum laptops, EAL, SEN, Family Worker and Temp laptops

 

Set up of laptops for 9 new staff starting in September

 

Re-install our HP D2D2T system that's not working properly

 

Update hardware & software audit, collect all serials and licence codes

 

Install and confiure 6 additional IP CCTV cameras

 

Prepare some stuff for Apprentice interviews happening in September including a few hardware-fixing tests

 

Overhaul the 6 PC's in the Foundation Stage

 

Check WSUS as it doesn't seem to be too happy at the moment!

 

Look at GPO's as I'm sure some stuff isn't quite right

 

If time I might transfer some of the few small roles left running on the older server to the new ones

 

 

I also plan to spend lots of time at the cinema, playing pool, gaming, getting out on my motorbike in the nice weather, and (hopefully) moving into a new house & getting started on the DIY that'll inevitably need doing there. The missus will be off to Gibralta to see her Dad for a long weekend, or maybe a week, so I'll get some time to myself there at least!

[john]

Lets see this summer, oh yes madness is insuing, for the third year!

 

We are expanding to a second campus across the road so basically that! Oh and over half our building is being refurbished so its move move move, store store store, pack, pack, pack, fix, fix, fix and then lots of re-setup!

 

It is going to be a very busy summer, along with expanding we have to get kit from another school that is closing to ours, move an IT Room and cable that up, re-do about 100 PCs on the new site (new site is a school that is closing), re-setup our 300 machines, including all the new apps for smaller people to use and GCSE Programming shizzle (at least this is now nearly all MS based so nice and easy!), finish fitting my Ruckus Wifi and Juniper LAN (mainly the new site).

 

Rip out the phone system on the extra site and link ours to it to save costs, oh and have 2 weeks holiday (not a chance!)

 

Ensure we are ready to re-open on something like 2nd September.....

 

Oh and before that ensure we have Progresso all up and working

[trekmad]

Moving nearly all of our PC's to VDI. From September we will have VMWare View desktops everywhere except Music and some of the machines in media studies all running Windows 7 and Office 2010. This means we can also offer a neat little BYOD solution for our sixth form and boarders.

 

In addition to this we have:

 

Phone system software upgrade

Access control system software change

Library software change

MIS rollover

Cabling works

PAT testing

CCTV cameras/system upgrade

New VLE setup and in house training materials creation

AV projector loom replacements to replace some older glitchy ones

VMWare upgrade from 4 to 5 for our server virtualisation

Server OS maintenance

 

+ lots of the usual silly jobs