How much you doing this holiday?

[carnforthhigh]

We have a long list of to do's aswell;

 

Rip out old benching from Careers room, disconnect old cast iron radiators, box old pipework in, paint, carpet, first fix electric, install new benching, second fix electric and data.

 

Install new cab into Pupil Support to accomodate the 40 cables from Careers.

 

Run clusters of cables from un-networked classrooms

 

Swap and change switches around

 

Install 3 Projector and Screens ( 1 with a full sound system)

 

Rejig the machines around the school, in the usual sort of cycle. New PCs into IT Rooms, Older PCs to other Depts.

 

Impliment Room Bookings and Helpdesk

 

And of course..the documentation which the NM has been trying to do for the last 5 years with no luck (you should see his filing cabinet)

[carnforthhigh]

We have a long list of to do's aswell;

 

Rip out old benching from Careers room, disconnect old cast iron radiators, box old pipework in, paint, carpet, first fix electric, install new benching, second fix electric and data.

 

Install new cab into Pupil Support to accomodate the 40 cables from Careers.

 

Run clusters of cables from un-networked classrooms

 

Swap and change switches around

 

Install new Sims Server, because the old one was sat on a blue screen the other day (not good at all)

 

Install 3 Projector and Screens ( 1 with a full sound system)

 

Rejig the machines around the school, in the usual sort of cycle. New PCs into IT Rooms, Older PCs to other Depts.

 

Impliment Room Bookings and Helpdesk

 

And of course..the documentation which the NM has been trying to do for the last 5 years with no luck (you should see his filing cabinet)

 

All between me the Techy and the NM becuase we are the only 2 IT Support Staff

[mrbios]

going to greece from the 18th to the 26th ............ then all hell breaks loose

 

we're practicly redoing the entire network

 

one room is being chucked away (all the pcs being given to a charity), we have to move all the pcs from the one next door to that across the other side of the school

 

we have to build around 200 pcs for the new building and image them

 

put 8 servers in place as DCs with a different subnet for each section of the school, replace all our old decrepid switchs with nice fancy HP procurves (where we havent already)

 

all sorts of recabling to be done in the server room, everything on the eonstor needs to be moved off to a temporary location so we can format the disks and clean it up a bit, put everything back on defrag it (reason bein we think theres a problem with one or two of the drives but all this can be done whilst we're doing other jobs) although we might leave it all on there and just run a few programs to check the disks because we could cause all sorts of problems come to think of it

 

all the old pcs out of 2 rooms that are being replaced have to be spread out throughout the school (they want a minimum of 1pc per classroom by september........somehow they think we're going to spring an extra pair of arms or something)

 

then in the unlikely event we have some time left at the end i want to try and replace one or two of the old dell servers with a spare HP one we have currently doing not much at all

 

EDIT: oh and we also need to a proper form of disaster recovery sorted

EDIT again: and get helpdesk working again which i acidently onpurpose nuked a few months ago

EDIT again again: and theres limiting home drive space for students, getting all the students an email address with limited space and finally (at least i hope) get print manager sorted again for printer credits

 

EDIT yet again: also a few projectors/whiteboards that need putting up and setting up

 

obviously with the amount we've got to do we've already started, got a test subnet setup to make sure the extra DCs do what there supposed to, got connects to come and put some copper and fibre in where needed, biggest problem we've got is we cant get into the new building until the middle of august, which means everything else has to be done and ready to be put in once the building opens otherwise we're goign to run out of time

[Abaddon]

Hmm.. 8 weeks of holidays..

 

refurb three labs

add 6 more Citrix servers

(upgrade to latest version of Citrix)

install new NetApp SAN

install new file server

assist in installation of new VOIP phone system

update 140 laptops with softphones and new A/V

build my new Dell XPS M1710 properly...

 

That's about it really...

[acrobson]

6 week holidays,

 

90 new interactive white boards getting installed

120 new dekstops and

700 laptops

 

not that much really!

[stephenleak]

We will be spending a week refurbishing another IT suite of 31 PC's. I still need to find something financially lucrative to cover the drop in earnings. Unfortunately, the above week will be the exam results one, so splits my "moonlighting" time in half.

[localzuk]

I hope there is more than one of you acrobson!!

[Halfmad]

I'm off a lot these holidays, 4 weeks in total (1 family week for moving house and 3 for annual leave.) Only leaves me 3 weeks really.

 

What do you mean only leaves you 3?? We only have 5 weeks altogether!

 

We get 7 weeks a year, last year we had 8 weeks 8). Last years extra week was down to a teacher challenging the council over the "lost days" incurred due to leap years - still can't believe they got an extra week off because of that. Not like they work that many days as it is! :?

 

This year it's June 29th -> 20th August

[Geoff]

Actually, I think I'll buy some more controllers for my Wii so we can play 4 player Mario Strikers as well.

[Halfmad]

Got that game at the weekend Geoff but I haven't actually tried it (moving house at the moment). I'm a bit peeved at having to get a 2nd nunchuk for two players though

 

My first "bought" game too so hoping it'll be a laugh

[TechMonkey]

Is happening

-New Exchange server going in

-14 Smartboards being installed

-New library catalogue system going in

-CC3 SR6

 

Be nice to happen

-New website

-Review start menu shortcuts

-Document far flung switches

-General network tidy up

-Test hall projector with xBox

 

Be a quiet year thank goodness.