Friday,+November+12+2010

= Friday, November 12, 2010 - Technical Meeting =

9:15 - Introduction/Brief layout of district networks

9:30 - Open Discussion 1 - Topics (~13 Minutes):
 * Password Policies
 * Lengths: 8 characters
 * Special Requirements: Must be unique, Three of the four (Cap, Lower, Symbol, Number)
 * How Often?: Once per year -2, Semester - 1, Other - 120 days (1)
 * Some schedule through AD/Novell
 * Workorders/Problem Reporting
 * Applications: Layton Technologies Help Box, FireFly, SpiceWorks (free)
 * Staff: Staff have accounts and submit requests, Email, possible link at login
 * Students: Some looking into student help desk, librarians, iTeam (CYSD) possible help forum moderators
 * Student computer sign-outs: Hanover, Central both employ as sign-out system
 * Lightspeed has an App for the computer to funnel them back through their firewall
 * Application Deployments
 * ARD - Iceberg as package builder
 * AD - Push out MSIs
 * Novell - ZenWorks and ZenWorks Virtual Machines
 * Casper - $$$
 * Printing
 * Centralized Printing:
 * Classroom Printing: Almost all
 * Auditing Novell iPrint, PaperCut

10:30 - 10 Minute Break

10:40 - Open Discussion 2 - Topics (~20 Minutes):
 * Streaming Media
 * Copyright is a big issue, especially when changing formats
 * Should be curricular in nature and segmented
 * LDAP issues!
 * Virtualization
 * VMware free and pay for server virtualization
 * Vsphere
 * Vmotion - Memory RAIDed
 * SAN
 * Hanover: All virtual machine files stored there
 * Backup
 * SAN - Agent on VM and backup like a normal server
 * BackupExec
 * Shadow copies
 * Mozy Offsite back for business and SIS files (CYSD)
 * Wireless
 * RL - Meraki
 * Hanover, CYSD - Ruckus
 * WY - Cisco
 * EY - 3Com

11:50 - Summary

12:00 - Close Meeting