MOSS 2007 Deployment in a K-12 Environment

1. MOSS 2007 Deployment in a K-12 Environment

2. BAS201 Miami Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) Paul Smith Michael Zambrano Information Technology Services customer

3. Agenda MDCPS Background Solution Goals and Objectives Walkthrough Overview of Physical Solution Lessons Learned Forward

4. MDCPS Background • Fourth-largest US school district • 333 public schools; 60 Charter schools • Serving 2,400 square miles • 345,000 students • 56,364 employees; 5,963 Charter employees

5. MDCPS Background • Active Directory • Auto-Update Active Directory Accounts • Password Synchronization • District Email • District wide Gradebook • Metro Ethernet to each remote site • Patch Management and Virus Protection • OLAP (On-line Analytical Processing tool) • Self Service for Technology Support • Leveraged Existing Microsoft Licensing

6. MDCPS Background • August 2007 District and Community Deployment; Global Registration System and Internship Auto-Update Active Directory Accounts • Enterprise Portal November 2006 to April 2007 • Portal Lite May 1, 2006

7. MDCPS Background • Site Collections: 48 • Sites 600,000 +/- • Class sites 190,000 • Departmental 1,200 • School sites 416 • Content Data bases • Total: 33

8. Solution Goals and Objectives • Goals • Quality education • Promote use of technology • Elevate parent awareness of child’s education • Objectives • Connect silo systems • Parent Involvement • Easy anywhere access

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12. Walkthrough • Login to Parent Portal Using your Existing Account • Create an Account – First Time Users

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14. Walkthrough • Your child’s MDCPS 7 digit Student ID • Parent 6 digit Pin Number • Student Date of Birth • Student birth place State or Country

15. A single Parent Account for all children in your family. Parent/Guardians with joint legal custody must share the Parent Account. Walkthrough REGISTRATION

16. Walkthrough

17. Walkthrough Repeat the process, for ALL your children attending MDCPS. You need a Parent Pin Number for each child

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20. Walkthrough Must be done 24 hours after registering

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22. Walkthrough • Read in detail • If you agree to these terms, • Select Accept One Time Only

23. Walkthrough New Features • Student Schedule • Student Assignments & Grades • Attendance • E-Textbooks • School Bus Information • Free and Reduced Meal Application process • Ask A Question and many more resources . . . . .

24. Walkthrough E-Textbook Child’s schedule

25. Walkthrough Info Path with a Work Flow

26. Overview of Physical Solution

27. Infrastructure Overview Active Directory Environment Historically decentralized AD environment Portal project coincided with AD migration project DMZ forest was created for student and parent accounts Initially intended for web applications only Now being rethought for network access

28. Infrastructure Overview

29. Infrastructure Overview Replication Topology

30. Infrastructure Overview Registration Process Student Dependent on completion of the scheduling process Short timeframe to complete provisioning Guardian Information had to be collected through a registration process Identifying guardians proved to be a challenge

31. Infrastructure Overview Dynamic Provisioning into AD Guardians identified with a PIN and questions about the student Guardians linked to student as an attribute of the AD user object Password self-reset M-Tech’s P-Synch software used Users register challenge Q&A for self reset

32. Infrastructure Overview Version 3 single sign-on (Web SSO) technology used for transparent access to resources An overlaying system of session tickets allow users to login once and access disparate applications

33. Registration Process Backup Strategy 20 TB fiber channel SAN space allocated for the portal 20 TB lower cost FATA drives allocated as a staging area Staging area is backed up nightly to a tape library Selected collaboration sites are kept on different retention schedules Infrastructure Overview

34. Lessons Learned Limited best practice for MOSS as it as a new product Deployment issues (test ->staging -> production) No build process

35. Foward Pause and Let Organization Absorb Technology Social Networking Content Management New Projects Once Potential is Realized

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