Marty Cormack's Page

We will be moving our data center to the new Lourdes High School next summer. The new network will be in place in the new building, but we do need to move a firewall appliance and about a dozen Microsoft Windows 2003 and 2008 servers.  Most of the servers are low end IBM System x Tower servers, though we have a few rack mount servers as well.  Given the small number and relatively light weight, we were thinking that we would just move them ourselves using a minivan.  We figured we would be more…See More

We have had more than one request from teachers and staff to have us install the Drop Box or Google Drive client on their school desktop systems so that they can easily sync files.  These free cloud services offer really excellent ease of use interfaces on a variety of platforms.The problem is that they are so easy to use, that with widespread use by staff, inevitably student private data will get exposed and that makes us extremely uncomfortable.To me it would make more sense to use a secured…See More

Do most districts allow their teachers and staff to log onto their school internal network from home? If so how do you do it?  VPN?  RDP? Third party software like LogMeIn?See More

I have been asked to size what it would take to quickly outfit a room as a computer lab.  Thanks to Damon, I have the systems I need, but we really cleaned house and disposed of all of our spare CRT monitors, and so now I do not have enough spares to outfit the lab.  I am going to have to come up with 15 to 20 computer monitors for this lab, if it is approved.If the principal pulls the trigger, do any of you have any surplus monitors that you were going to otherwise get rid of?  We would even…See More