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MOSS 2007 Deployment in a K-12 Environment . BAS201. Miami Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS). Paul Smith Michael Zambrano Information Technology Services. customer. Agenda. MDCPS Background Solution Goals and Objectives Walkthrough Overview of Physical Solution Lessons Learned
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BAS201 Miami Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) Paul Smith Michael Zambrano Information Technology Services customer
Agenda MDCPS Background Solution Goals and Objectives Walkthrough Overview of Physical Solution Lessons Learned Forward
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
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
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
MDCPS Background • Site Collections: 48 • Sites 600,000 +/- • Class sites 190,000 • Departmental 1,200 • School sites 416 • Content Data bases • Total: 33
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
Walkthrough • Login to Parent Portal Using your Existing Account • Create an Account – First Time Users
Walkthrough • Your child’s MDCPS 7 digit Student ID • Parent 6 digit Pin Number • Student Date of Birth • Student birth place State or Country
A single Parent Account for all children in your family. Parent/Guardians with joint legal custody must share the Parent Account. Walkthrough REGISTRATION
Walkthrough Repeat the process, for ALL your children attending MDCPS. You need a Parent Pin Number for each child
Walkthrough P6652297 20322730
Walkthrough Must be done 24 hours after registering
Walkthrough • Read in detail • If you agree to these terms, • Select Accept One Time Only
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 . . . . .
Walkthrough E-Textbook Child’s schedule
Walkthrough Info Path with a Work Flow
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
Infrastructure Overview Replication Topology
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
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
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
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
Lessons Learned Limited best practice for MOSS as it as a new product Deployment issues (test ->staging -> production) No build process
Foward Pause and Let Organization Absorb Technology Social Networking Content Management New Projects Once Potential is Realized
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