Increased traffic limits in QoS

Because we have 500Mbps available via Charter, I increased the QoS settings on the Palo Alto a bit just to see if we were really artificially capping our usage, and if the PA could handle more. 

I didn't max it out, just put it up to around 300.

I'll keep an eye on the graphs, but just wanted you to know in case something weird happens.

Phone outage for OMS, BKE, RCI, OASIS and OHS today 4:00 - 4:30

In order to replace a malfunctioning component of one of the district's phone switches, there will be an outage from approximately 4:00 - 4:30 PM on Monday, November 10, 2014. This should affect only Oregon High School, Oregon Middle School, OASIS, Brooklyn Elementary, and Rome Corners Intermediate.

Netherwood Knoll, Prairie View, the District Services Office, and the Oregon Pool should continue to have uninterrupted phone service.

As with all things technological, there is the possibility that the outage will last longer than planned due to unforeseen events.

website outage schedule for Nov. 21-22

In order to perform maintenance upgrades, the www.OregonSD.org public website will be unavailable as described below.

Friday, November 21st
8:00 pm - 1:00 am: www.OregonSD.org will be unavailable. 

Saturday, November 22nd 
www.OregonSD.org will be available in read-only mode, with possible momentary service interruptions to either certain components or to the entire site. 

We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

Destiny unavailable June 6, 2014 at 10 PM for upgrade

An update to your Destiny 12.0 will occur June 6, 2014 at 10 p.m. CST

. As a result, Destiny will not be available for a period of two hours. Once updated, you can start using these amazing features right away.

Destiny Textbook ManagerManage and distribute textbooks using barcodes, by quantities only or use both methods!

• Add quantities of textbooks into inventory
• Circulate by ISBN barcode; enabling pull-up textbook lists for easier check-out
• Easier check-in of books without barcodes
• Simplified quantity movement – ordering,
  transferring and reporting – district wide

Destiny Library Manager

• Ability to see the "who" and "where" of a transaction in the Copy Transaction report
• Display of blocked messages in the Copy Transaction report, enabling a user to see if an update is complete/incomplete, or spot an error message

Google Drive unavailable

No, it's not just you. Google Drive is unavailable for many, if not all, users. I called Google and they are aware of the issue and are working to restore service. No ETA on a solution yet. My advice is to just check back occasionally, although we will let you know if we receive any updates.

Sorry for this happening, especially at this critical time of year.

Update from Google:
The problem with Google Drive should be resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support. Please rest assured that system reliability is a top priority at Google, and we are making continuous improvements to make our systems better.

June 4, 2014 9:29:00 AM PDT

Especially for seniors- How to take your Google Apps data with you

As this year's Senior class prepares to graduate and move on to bigger and better things, we want to make sure that they can take all their hard work with them to college or work. Most student data is stored in Google Apps for Education in the oregonsd.net domain. If you have documents or files stored on the network server, you can copy it directly to Google Drive.

Students can export their data directly from Google Drive (directions here), but there are also tools to automatically move all the contents of a Google Apps account to another Google account. For example, a student could move their documents, gmail, calendar items, and websites from student.sample@oregonsd.net  to a new personal account such as mynewaccount@gmail.com, or to their new university email address.

One tool to do this is Backupify's Migrator, available at https://www.backupify.com/free-tools/migrator-google-apps

Another is Google Takeout from the Data Liberation Front.

We (the OSD IT department) don't own these tools, so we really can't support them, but wanted to let you know they exist. Best wishes to the Seniors!

Don't use Internet Explorer

Microsoft Security Advisory 2963983 (CVE-2014-1776) is a serious Vulnerability in the Internet Explorer web browser that could Allow Remote Code Execution. Microsoft is aware of limited, targeted attacks that attempt to exploit a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8, Internet Explorer 9, Internet Explorer 10, and Internet Explorer 11.

The vulnerability is a remote code execution vulnerability. The vulnerability exists in the way that Internet Explorer accesses an object in memory that has been deleted or has not been properly allocated. The vulnerability may corrupt memory in a way that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user within Internet Explorer. An attacker could host a specially-crafted website that is designed to exploit this vulnerability through Internet Explorer and then convince a user to view the website.

For more information on Microsoft Security Vulnerability 2963983, please visit:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/2963983.aspx

Skyward and other vendors are recommending that everyone use an alternate web browser until Microsoft releases a patch.