Public website offline again

The public website is offline again. We are working on resolving the issue. Thank you for your patience.

Tech office moving later this week

The IT department office will be under construction beginning July 23 and ending (hopefully) July 25. During that time, we will still respond to phone and email, but we may be physically relocated to a nearby meeting room. Just in case you need to find us.

Monthly review, July 2008

IT Monthly Review
July 21, 2008

The past month in IT:

• The IT department has closed 95 helpdesk tickets.
• Implemented VPN services on the PIX (still in testing mode)
• Migrated four servers to virtualized instances on new hardware
• Successfully migrated email from a GroupWise account to a Gmail account under Google Apps.
• Implemented bandwidth management on the Lightspeed system.
• Began planning district-wide 802.11n wireless implementation.
• Kept working on replacing the 375 old computers, mainly at OHS and RCI.
• Performed setup for summer school and Oregon Summer Series courses.
• Completed PowerSchool rollover for end-of-year processes. 
• Migrated public website to new hosting facility operated by CESA 6.
  

The past month of the Information and Technology Literacy Team:

• Sent three teachers to the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC).
• Experimented with various Web2.0 social networking applications.
• Taught a variety of professional development classes for teachers from Oregon and neighboring districts.
• Developed curricula for new courses in the fall.
• Began physical relocation of Tech Resource Teacher offices
• Assessed benefits of Destiny upgrade for circulation management.
• Contributed to summer school operations.

In the past month, Jon:

• Got a trap door installed in his office.
  
• Participated in administrative retreat.
  
• Facilitated the "Technology Standards for Administrators" course on administrative retreat.
• Contributed to A-team meetings.
• Began developing a PDP assistance packet for staff to incorporate NETS*T.

public website outage

The www.OregonSD.org web site was temporarily unavailable for a few hours beginning Friday evening. The site was moved (as planned) to a new hosting location operated by CESA 6. However, due to a virtual hosting misconfiguration on CESA 6's servers, the www.OregonSD.org domain name misdirected to an unrelated web site.

We apologize for the confusion and inconvenience. A tip of the hat to Zach for contacting CESA 6 to resolve this issue well after work hours.

E-mail system returned to service

We found the setting that was preventing some users from logging in and corrected it. Webaccess and client connections are now working on the new server address.

Some people still reporting email inaccessible

Some people still report not being able to access email, even using the Groupwise client. We are continuing to work on this. Thank you for your patience.

Email server Up - Webaccess login still down

The GroupWise Server is running and can be accessed with the client only at this time. (Use CITRIX if you don't have a client installed at home). The webaccess feature is not working. We will continue working on this tomorrow a.m.