Vanilla Network - Primary School

[MartinHamilton]

Hi,

 

I'm aware quite a few high schools are moving away from RM to Vanilla Networks. Can the same be said for Primary Schools?

 

Specifically, are any Primary Schools in Staffordshire running on Vanilla Networks?

 

Thanks,

 

Martin

[witch]

I'm in a Junior school and we run a Vanilla system - not in Staffordshire though!

[MartinHamilton]

Would you be able to give me a little bit of a run down on the size of school and what you are running?

 

Thanks

[witch]

We are a Junior school with a three form entry, years 3 to 6. (so approx 350 pupils) We have two servers - main DC is 2008R2, second server is 2003.

We have a Ruckus wireless network

45 PCs, 45 netbooks

[MartinHamilton]

Are you a full time tech on that site or?

[MartinHamilton]

SysMan, What tools etc do you use to manage the Infant school, do any of the staff manage usernames etc or do you do it all?

 

Also what email server are you using? I'm looking at Office 365?

 

Thanks

Edited September 24, 2012 by MartinHamilton

[Quackers]

I support 2 Primary Schools in Staffordshire that we have removed CC4 from and gone Vanilla, now things are quick

[elsiegee40]

Both my last 2 Primaries were vanilla. The first converted from RM because it was cheaper. The second looked at the cost of RM and preferred the price of vanilla!

[witch]

Are you a full time tech on that site or?

 

3 hours per day, 5 days a week

[hardtailstar]

Vanilla here....

 

Infant school 18 computers and 20 laptops.

 

Junior school 22 computers and 200 laptops

 

A lot easier than RM, I used to support a third school that had cc4 and the difference between the networks was incredible, The rm network was always having problems and I was constantly on the phone to RM trying to sort these problems out.

[bladedanny]

Vanilla Here,

 

~120 Clients & two servers. All managed by me 3 days a week (which is more time than needed for the management of the network)

[quietriot1983]

Vanilla here in Salford.

 

I was heavily involved in the 'opt-out' process, saving my own job as we never entered into any of RM's services. From all I hear locally, we are envied, because RM area nightmare.

 

We have 250 kids, 1 2003 server, 100clients.

 

I'm full time so have done a lot of the leg-work. Everything runs swimmingly now, with the majority of my time being taken up by teachers who can't/won't learn to do the simplest of things.

[Oaktech]

Vanilla here from a ranger network.

 

1x HP ML350 server 2008r2

~50x Dell 170L and 210L

~10x Novatech all with Win7

 

~300 pupils

~50 staff

[edutech4schools]

I look after 6 vanilla schools. Many years back one school had CC server, in my opinion it made more work for me than vanilla so I pulled it out.

[jamin100]

Vanilla here

 

500 Pupils

50 Staff

 

3 Servers + 2 Virtual

2 x 2008R2 , 2 x 2003, 1 x FreeNas

 

180 clients All windows 7

(100 of those are wireless)

 

Ipads & Kindles

Ruckus Managed wireless

 

Me full time all year round

[Dom_]

All Vanilla here...

3 hrs per week - 1 2008R2 server, 20 desktops, 15 laptops, 10 fizzbooks

3 hrs per week - 1 2008 server, 30 desktops, 20 laptops , Ruckus wireless (1 point)

3 hrs per week - 1 2008R2 server, 20 desktops, 70 laptops, Ruckus wireless

3 hrs per week - 1 2008R2 server, 40 desktops, 45 laptops, Ruckus wireless

6 hrs per week - 1 2008 server, 40 desktops, 40 laptops, 30 netbooks, Ruckus wireless

6 hrs per week - 1 2003 server, 30 desktops, 20 laptops, 30 netbooks

6 hrs per week - 2 2008R2 servers, 70 desktops, 70 laptops, 45 iPod touches, 45 iPads, Ruckus wireless

6 hrs per week - 1 2008R2 server, 1 2003 server, 50 Desktops, 80 Laptops, 60 fizzbooks. Ruckus wireless