Wireless Wireless Wireless
With the addition of more wireless coverage in our residential halls, I don’t want to use the term “complete coverage”, we’ve had an amazing uptake in use of our wireless network. During last year the highest number of wireless clients connected was around 300, this year it has topped 600. This has lead to more questions and time spent managing the wireless network. (more…)
Development Office Server Upgrade
Today we worked with Sage Software, makers of Millennium, to move the Development office’s database system to new hardware. The old (very old) system had suffered a disk failure earlier in the summer and since it was about time for an upgrade, we moved it to our VMware based virtual server environment.
The move has seemed to go well, I provided a pre-configured server using Windows 2003 R2 and MSSQL server 2000 (required for this install), the tech from Sage has done most of the work of moving the database from the old system and installing and configuring all the software. We will be keeping the IP address and name of the server the same, when the work is done the goal is for the end user to connect to the system without seeing anything different.
The move to Windows 2003 R2 from Windows 2000 Server should provide a gain in security with the deprecation of Windows 2000 Server soon by Microsoft. Also the move to our virtual environment should see a gain in efficiency of resource use.
Hey, What is ITS going to do with this blog?
Well, the plan is for ITS to use this space to provide information on the day to day operations of our office and on the IT services of Centre College’s campus. We will have everything from general musings to news an announcements.
We will be updating the Helpdesk web site soon and will include information automatically from this blog into the new site using RSS feeds. In addition to posts from this blog, the documentation section of the Helpdesk site will be replaced by links to our department’s new wiki. We hope the new wiki, which can be found here, will be a better way to provide information on all forms of campus IT issues.