Comments for School Tech Tools

Comment on Deploying Windows 7 by John

John — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:28:38 +0000

Thanks Mike! This helps a ton!!!

Comment on Deploying Windows 7 by Mike

Mike — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:21:26 +0000

Forgot to mention – some of the commands for adding drivers, etc have changed in Windows 7, but for the most part things are similar. The technet documentation goes over some of those changes: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd349348%28WS.10%29.aspx

Comment on Deploying Windows 7 by Mike

Mike — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:18:57 +0000

John – I went through this when figuring out Vista deployment and found a blog that has some outstanding instructions/screen shots. The 3 part series starts here: http://blog.augustoalvarez.com.ar/2008/12/12/installing-and-configuring-wds-windows-deployment-services-full-images-deployment-part-i/

I’ve also put a couple of deployment tips that I’ve run across on my own blog at http://techcoordtips.blogspot.com/.

Comment on New infrastucture equipment by John

John — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:29:13 +0000

We have been very happy with the Trapeze equipment. It has been very easy to configure, and very easy to maintain. The system runs itself, and requires very little intervention from the Tech Department. It has been very nice to change encryption keys, or create a new SSID, and push it out to all 35 APs within seconds. Our old system would have taken me most of the day to change encryption keys and setup a new SSID.

Comment on New infrastucture equipment by Tony

Tony — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:56:25 +0000

So, any comments on how the Trapeze stuff has worked for you?

Comment on Laptop purchasing by John Rundag

John Rundag — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:21:46 +0000

We have been purchasing Acer laptops for a couple years now. Although we are not purchasing them in mass quantities, I feel we are getting a good laptop at a good price. We have been buying the Travelmates, however, we just bought an Extensa a couple weeks ago. I like to keep the price point around $600 because we purchase the 3 year accidental damage warranty. Toss in a laptop bag and the price goes up to $925.

Comment on eBooks in K-12 by John

John — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:40:01 +0000

Ted,
I just read the letter, and it’s a great idea. I hadn’t seen that letter before. I posted a comment on his blog asking if he ever got a response.

Thanks!

Comment on eBooks in K-12 by Ted

Ted — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:43:23 +0000

John,

Have you seen Dr. Scott McLoed’s blog about textbooks?

http://www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2007/02/online_multimed.html

It was originally posted a year ago.

Ted

Comment on UPDATE: Internet Content Filtering by john

john — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:28:14 +0000

Darren,
We had looked at the SchoolGuardian software, but didn’t need the firewall capabilities. At this time we are only interested in the filtering capability.
Thanks anyways!
John

Comment on UPDATE: Internet Content Filtering by Richard@SmoothWall

Richard@SmoothWall — Tue, 29 May 2007 21:55:25 +0000

Hi John – I would love to hear why your eval failed, and what we could do to help you get what you need. Dan of Dan’s Guardian is the CTO of SmoothWall, and we have 000′s of satisfied commerial customers.

Get in touch and I will do what I can to help!

Richard Moore, SmoothWall VP Sales
richard.moore@smoothwall.net