Getting ready for the return of teachers

We are busily preparing for the return of teachers. Today we began in earnest dismantling the summer school computers and putting them back in their regular rooms. Most of our equipment orders are streaming in, so now we have to inventory it all.

All the new computers have been placed, except for the very recent requests for new staff. Soon the setup of phone extensions and voicemail will begin, though some will have to wait until we get room assignments.

Email and Rome are back up

Email and Rome are back up. Seems to be a strange day here in tech land. I hope no more servers catch the bug.

Email and Rome down

Email and Rome servers are down.

Voicemail is back up

Voicemail service is back up and running.

Voicemail is down- cause unknown

Voicemail is down- cause unknown. Working on it.

Confusion between duplicate external website

We have received reports of changes made to the OregonSD.org website not showing up, and after much head-scratching and hair-pulling, figured out that it appears to be caused by the old instance of the site still being live, and a DNS issue that keeps resolving to it.

We are in the process of changing the hosts file on internal computers so they resolve to the new IP address, and are asking the host of the old site to remove it. This should alleviate the confusion. 

Working on new start page to replace internal page

We're working on a new, customizable "start page" to replace the outdated "internal homepage" that is the default home page on district computers. We're pretty excited about this, since it will interface with our new Google Apps domain, and will provide a customized page for every user. It will also be accessible from outside of the district, so all those helpful links will be available for you even when you are off campus.

If you want to check out the new page, you can go to http://partnerpage.google.com/oregonsd.net and log in with your Novell username and password.