July 26th 2007
Server Set up Issues and Commitments
Admin expects the server to be operational by A track first day which is August 29th.
New ghosts on all machines in network,
That means individual student folders/sign in
Student sign in names and pw
Instructional info to teachers and students
Upgraded printing server
Folder set up.
Server side maintenance
Will the Windows2007 confiuration allow server side maintanance, ghosting, upgrades, trouble shooting etc
To what extent?
Server-side maintenance in what context? Remote reboots? Desktop updates? In the case of remote reboots, 3rd party tools will always be needed. Desktop updates, same thing. While Windows Server has a lot of capacities available, there are some that will never be native (anti-trust issues and such).
Ghosting? Nope. Not going to happen. The only thing that Windows has even close to ghosting technology is sysprep. Sysprep let's you prep a system with a windows install (but little to no applications installed, so far as I know). Ghosting is by far the easiest to use for system recovery. We should be looking at the Enterprise editions of Symantec Ghost.
Troubleshooting? Windows has 1st party tools (ping, Microsoft Management Console, etc.), as well as 3rd party tools (LANGuard, nmap, etc.) available for helping to troubleshoot problems. It's really a matter of learning how to use the tools available.
Upgrades? Again, in what context? 3rd party applications such as Photoshop, Acrobat Reader, and Easy Grade Pro can not be handled using Windows Server because Microsoft does not support these applications. The only software that can be updated using Windows Server are those software packages that have been officially approved by Microsoft, or at the very least, follow the Windows Installer documentation.
Active Directory
Common Name is LAHS
Active Directory DNS Name is lahs.clc
DNS Server Setup
Primary DNS will be the IP address of the Windows 2003 server
Secondary DNS will be the IP address of the LAUSD DNS server
System Policies
Applied at the Organizational Unit level
Universal policies?
Active Directory Setup
Groups: N/A
Accounts: Individual Accounts
Organizational Units: SLCs
School Policies
Warning signs for password privacy
ex. $0.50 for password reset (students)
ex. $1.00 for password reset (teachers)
School personel and student list
Shutdown support for migration / setup
Backup notices
Printer services shutdown
Server space breakdown
Venus: printers only
Saturn: 1.0TB
Terra2: 600GB
Sol: 35GB
Dell server 1: 1.5TB
Dell server 2: 1.5TB
Backup Strategy
Local backup daily
end of week network backup
Approx. 0.5GB per student.
Start low and increase as needed
Monitoring of student and teacher data
Propaganda of teacher involvement
White list of acceptable items
Dropboxes
possible use of school website
Pullboxes
Issues, Concerns, Solutions and Commitments for the Server and setting up the new LAN at LA High School
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Active Directory
- Common Name is LAHS
- Active Directory DNS Name is lahs.clc
DNS Server Setup
Primary DNS will be the IP address of the Windows 2003 server
Secondary DNS will be the IP address of the LAUSD DNS server
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