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- School District Saves Hundreds of Support Hours With Operating System Upgrade
- The Perry School District, in central Iowa, has about 1,850 students enrolled in grades kindergarten through 12. The district uses technology very effectively to create a productive learning environment. However, an increase in malicious software downloads and unauthorized system changes impaired computers and caused performance problems. With the help of...
- Tags: Operating System, School District, Microsoft Corp., Malicious Software, Microsoft Windows, Performance Management, Operating Systems, Viruses And Worms, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Security
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- Public School District Reduces Virus-Related Incidents With Network Access Protection
- Central Islip Public Schools in New York has 1500 employees serving 6500 students. With thousands of employees and students using those 2500 workstations, there is plenty of opportunity for non-compliant computers and users to infiltrate the system. The District wanted both network security and Active Directory management in a server,...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Network, Microsoft Windows Server, Virus, School District, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-03-06
- School District Simplifies Remote Application Access With Server Upgrade
- The Manteca Unified School District strives to provide excellent educational opportunities to a diverse student constituency. An enthusiastic adopter of technology to help meet its educational objectives, the district is upgrading its server computer operating system to Windows Server 2008 to take advantage of better remote application access for students,...
- Tags: District, Microsoft Access, Server Upgrade, School District, Manteca Unified School District, Server Upgrades, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- School District Enhances Educational Experience With Improved Technology Tools
- Jefferson County Public Schools wanted to increase its teachers' use of and comfort with technology for a more dynamic classroom environment. The district opted to standardize on Tablet PCs running the Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system, rather than desktop or portable computers running Mac OS X or Windows...
- Tags: District, Teacher, Tool, School District, Tablets, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Mac OS X, Notebooks, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Software
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- School District Consolidates Backup Systems, Reduces IT Workload, and Lowers Costs
- Tracy Unified School District in northern California wanted to streamline the work involved in daily backups and file recoveries. The small IT staff spent an inordinate amount of time backing up e-mail messages and documents every day for the district's 22 schools and could spend days recovering accidentally deleted files...
- Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Backup System, School District, Backups
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- Arlington Independent School District Deploys Unified Communications to Cost-Effectively Enhance School Safety
- The Arlington Independent School District AISD is the ninth largest school district in Texas, with 74 school campuses and 63,000 students. Arlington Independent School District ISD wanted to ensure effective emergency communication and cost-effectively provide telephone coverage for every classroom. The challenge was to reduce communications operating costs. As a...
- Tags: Phone, School District, Unified Communications, Cisco Systems Inc., Arlington Independent School District, Telecom & Utilities
- Case studies 2007-10-10
- Los Angeles school district SAP implementation still broken
- Los Angeles school district SAP implementation still brokenInform the uninformedPlease someone explain to me how it could be this complicated?How are these teachers paid so that it needs a sort of math that even computers can't figure out to pay them?Do they not make "$65,000 a year?" or "$25 per...
- Tags: Operational accounting, payroll, school district, SAP AG
- Discussion threads 2007-10-09
- School District Improves Communications, Saves Costs With Unified Messaging
- The more than 1,600 employees at Tracy Unified School District in northern California rely on e-mail, voice mail, instant messaging, and faxes to communicate with each other, vendors, and parents. However, the district wanted a solution that would provide more flexible ways for users to communicate while eliminating high-cost phone...
- Tags: Unified Messaging, Microsoft Exchange Server, School District, VOIP, E-mail Servers, Telephony, Groupware, Telecommunications, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2007-10-06
- Maryland Public School District Gives Lexmark High Marks for Automating Its Electronic Report Card System
- Among the 50 largest public school systems in the United States, this public school system in Maryland provides a challenging and rewarding educational experience. For the 78 elementary schools in this Maryland school district, generating report cards was a challenging process. The longstanding practice of handwriting grades and comments on...
- Tags: Maryland, School District, Lexmark International Inc., Printers, Hardware, Peripherals
- Case studies 2007-09-20
- 1:1 on a budget?
- 1:1 on a budget?If they have a gaming computer at home, the DO NOT need another computer"Yes, most kids have computers at home. However, these computers are used for recreation."If they have a gaming computer at home, they DO NOT need another computer. Gaming or "recreation" computers are a...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Games, computer, game, school district
- Discussion threads 2007-09-16
- Why municipal WiFi is an educational expense
- Why municipal WiFi is an educational expenseGreat idea, not practicalMUNI WiFi has been in operational for a couple of years in the City of Cerritos, but it's not free. Access fees are vary depending on how often the user needs to access the Internet ranging from hourly to monthly. Collaborating...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Access Fees, Internet Service Provider, Wi-Fi, municipal Wi-Fi, school district, tax
- Discussion threads 2007-07-17
- Dyntek Case Study: Walled Lake Consolidated School District
- The Walled Lake Consolidated School District is located in the greater metropolitan Detroit, Michigan area. The mission of the school, in partnership with parents and community, was to become the best educational system in America so all students demonstrate they are caring, responsible and knowledgeable citizens. Walled Lake selected DynTek...
- Tags: School District, DynTek, Walled Lake Consolidated School District, Business Structures, Network Administration, Finance, Networking
- Case studies 2007-05-29
- Small School District Sees Big Gains in PC Security, Performance, and Availability
- The Perry School District, which serves a community of nearly 10,000 people in central Iowa, faced a common problem in its middle-school and high-school computer labs: the downloading of malicious software ("Malware"), which wreaked havoc on performance and availability. With the help of Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Heartland Technology Solutions,...
- Tags: Performance, PC, Malware, Microsoft Corp., School District, Microsoft Windows, Performance Management, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Security
- Case studies 2007-05-01
- WA lawmakers try to address cyberbullying
- For all the fears about online predators, schoolchildren in Seattle face a much more pressing concern: cyberbullying. A report from the Seattle School District found that over 40 percent of youths nationwide report that they were bullied online, while 53 percent said something unkind online. Nearly 60 percent of those...
- Tags: Instant messaging, school district
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- An IT Infrastructure Based on Dell Platforms Keeps the Kenton County School District at the Head of the Class
- The Kenton County School District in Kentucky is an award-winning district at the forefront of educational IT. To comply with federal regulations and improve administrative and teacher access to student records, the district needed to revamp its data warehouse strategy. Kenton County School District standardized on dual-core Intel Xeon processor...
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Data Warehouse, Dell Computer Corp., Information Technology, School District, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Servers, Processors, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components
- Case studies 2006-12-01
- SD schools: check your figures
- School is about to be in session and science teachers are frantically removing Pluto from their textbooks and visual aids (or they're adding Ceres, Charon, and "Xena"). But what about the IT folks in your school? If you live in South Dakota and you are an IT staff...
- Tags: laptop computer
- Blog posts 2006-08-25
- School District's Wireless Initiative Helps Raise Computer Literacy
- The Broward County Public School District is the sixth largest school district in the United States. They wanted to increase the integration of technology into the curriculum and make PCs and Internet access available to all students and deploy a secure, cost-effective wireless communications system district wide. The Broward County...
- Tags: School District, Cisco Systems Inc., Computer, Broward County Public School District, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- Case studies 2006-06-01
- Okay, I take it back!
- In a recent posting, Well, so much for privacy!, I criticized the actions of a school district in Colorado based solely upon the content of a post (Monday morning massacre: 17 employees fired for forwarding porn) which was summarizing a story in the Denver Post.Well, I jumped the gun! ...
- Tags: school district, privacy
- Blog posts 2006-05-10
- School District Offers Distance Learning and Improves Efficiency
- The sixth largest school district in the United States, the Broward County School District's primary goal was to enhance educational learning opportunities by supplementing voice conferencing with Web collaboration. Another goal was to extend the use of voice conferencing to parent-teacher conferences and staff meetings, including in-service training. The Broward...
- Tags: Distance Learning, Web-based Collaboration, School District, Voice, Cisco Systems Inc., Telecommunications
- Case studies 2006-05-01
- Tiny school district signing up thousands for online courses
- Tiny school district signing up thousands for online coursesforgive me for laughing... when some politician expresses concern about lack of "academic rigor" via online instruction vs. course work provided by the bricks and mortar environment of public education institutions.
- Tags: school district
- Discussion threads 2006-04-07
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