Wireless laptops are being used "in the field" now, and actually work, wirelessly! Hurrah.
Our new student records server has arrived and is being set up this week. The data guy has tested how to transfer the database over to a temporary machine and it seemed to work fine. This could be up and running by the end of the week. Wow. It's a spanky HP DL360 server with the database on a 200GB RAID5 volume and LTO2 tape drive in a rack mount. Managed to splash out on a spare hot swap power supply as we now have about 3 of these machines, this new on, and 2 more to come in a month's time so we should be covered there.
Trying to organise a return for our big LTO3 tape loader which has never worked. Have to ring Germany....joy. Would be nice to get a return on this as we'd get £1700 credit on our budget.
Had a go with VoIP with a view to setting up a test phone network, but I still don't know how you "interface" this with actual phones, so that needs some more research.
Our new IT wing is taking shape. The door from the old server room to the new server room has been knocked through and they have done the first fix for the electrics as well as starting to hang a new false celling.
Wireless - done, new school records server - done (ish). The only big thing left is our new Citrix install with a day's 2008 training. Scary.
Also looking at what licenses we need to be covered for showing music and video such as PRS, or PVS or CLA or EDA etc. Rubbish.
