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Enterprise Portal Presentation

Enterprise Portal Presentation. Miami-Dade County Public Schools. MDCPS Background. Fourth largest school district Over 340 public schools; over 80 Charter schools Serving 2,400 square miles Over 340,000 students Over 45,000 employees; over 5,000 Charter employees

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Enterprise Portal Presentation

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  1. Enterprise Portal Presentation Miami-Dade County Public Schools

  2. MDCPS Background • Fourth largest school district • Over 340 public schools; over 80 Charter schools • Serving 2,400 square miles • Over 340,000 students • Over 45,000 employees; over 5,000 Charter employees • Services 180 different home languages • Mobility rate – 27%

  3. The Big Picture • The Vision • Have all users connected to all information at anytime • The Challenges • Schools under state sanction • Need to increase parental involvement • Giving our users access to their systems in one area • Providing our parents an easy and consistent way to monitor their child’s progress • Connect silo systems • Reduce paper-based systems • Provide easy and consistent access to information

  4. MDCPS Foundation • Active Directory Account and Auto Update – MIIS and ILM • Password Synchronization – P-Synch • District Email – Outlook Exchange • District wide Gradebook – Global Scholar / Excelsior • Metro Ethernet to each remote site • Patch Management and Virus Protection – Big Fix and Sophos • Data Warehouse – Microsoft SQL • OLAP (On-line Analytical Processing tool) - Cognos • Self Service for Technology Support - HEAT

  5. MDCPS Foundation • District-wide federated library catalog -Destiny • District-wide assessment tool – Edusoft • District-wide instructional applications, including Riverdeep Destination Series Voyager Solo and Ticket to Read Jamestown Navigator Plato Learning Library Reference Databases-Groliers, SIRS, Gale, Facts on File, etc • District-wide test generator - ExamView

  6. Implementation/Timeline Portal LiteMay 1, 2006 2009 - 2010 Business Partners Food Service Live@Edu Links to Learning Teacher Assessment Volunteer SAP SOS Employee Self-Service SharePoint 2010 • 2008 - 2009 • Attendance • Intervention • SPOT • SES • Weekly Briefing • Internship • Professional Development • RiverDeep • Unified Communications (OCS) 2007 - 2008 District and Community Deployment; Global Registration System Enterprise Portal 2006 - 2007 Infrastructure and Employee Portal with Collaboration

  7. Decision Making Process • Key Criteria • Existing infrastructure and skill sets • Scalability • Technology partners and third party services • Flexibility • Rapid Development • Why SharePoint? • Experience with Microsoft Products • Mature Microsoft Exchange Environment (ADS) • Successful Portal “Lite” • Established Personnel and Student Data Warehouse • Microsoft Platform throughout District • Good Partner Relationship with Microsoft

  8. Students Parents Employees Community The Solution - www.dadeschools.net

  9. Lessons Learned on Portal Deployment

  10. Lessons Learned • Portal Lite • Over Estimating Services, Under Estimating Staff • Over Estimating Community and Parents Technical Awareness • Mapping and Establishing Environments Beforehand • Change Control in Place • Getting all Parts to Work Together • Limited best practice for MOSS as it as a new product • Deployment issues (test -> staging -> production) • No build process

  11. Portal Infrastructure and Build

  12. 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

  13. Initial Infrastructure Build • Environment architecture and design • Security architecture and certificates • Hardware sizing and implementation • Active Directory Schema modifications • Database architecture and build • Data Warehouse interface and data positioning • Development and Integration environments • Active Directory provisioning and replication

  14. Hardware

  15. Replication Topology

  16. Account Creation and Management • 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

  17. Single Sign-On • Version 3 single sign-on (Web SSO) technology used for transparent access to resources An overlaying system of session tickets allow uses to login once and access disparate applications

  18. Storage and Backup 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

  19. Resources to Maintain • 2 System Administrators – handle all updating to environments • 2 Exchange Specialists (Part time) • 1 Database Administrator (Part time) • 3 .Net Developers • 1 Network Analyst (Part time)

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