Day Eight

Nearly two weeks down and nothing has caught fire. This is good news!

Sorted out some support contracts today with a Mac company. Only took me about 5 minutes. I had the impression from the guy I took over from that it was some long drawn out process as it seemed to take him ages to contact the company! It's all in place, but it looks like they have been previously given the WRONG serial number for our server hardware.  Someone has mixed up the "S" and "5" characters, and added a "3" in to another one.

The second media studies room now has working speakers. I disconnected them from the crappy projector in the room, and re-wired them to a new amp, which I hooked up to the computer and VCR. Should work fine.

The Lacie NAS boxes got moved out of IT and in to Music and Drama to spread the backups around the school, and get them out of offices where people have to hear them! Was a bit of a faff, but it's sorted now.

Finally managed to take 3 computers back to the other site. They are all set up and working. Hurrah. Had a look at the site officer's PC today - it was so filthy inside it looked like someone had carpeted it.

We launched the new school website today. May god bless her and all that visit her (!?). I emailed ALL the staff to tell them this, with some posh words such as "media rich" and  "transition". Hopefully the Big Boss will be happy I used my initiative and contacted the staff about this.

Made some notes on what we need to think about when we go from Windows 2000 to a 2003/2008 domain. There's quite a lot to consider, as well as lots of money needed. As well as new Office and Citrix.

Finally, I had a browse through our Wiki. It's VERY our of date, VERY incomplete, and VERY written from a viewpoint of the person that set it up, rather than being written for a complete n00b to read and get a grip on what's going on.

Someone brought some random plants in today. Staff room looks like a garden centre.