Sydney Region Servers

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Sydney Region Servers
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Sydney Region Servers

• Windows 2003
• Standard Configuration
• Able to be supported remotely
• Antivirus updates managed from server

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Rollout Servers 4 Unit

• Dual Xeon 2.8GHz 1Mb 800FSB
• 1Gb DDR333 RAM
• 3 x 72Gb SCSI Drives
• RAID 5
• System 10 Gb
• Apps 50 Gb
• Data 60 gb
• Future Use (Altiris) 20 Gb

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Rollout Servers 6 Unit

• 2 x 36.7Gb SCSI Drives
• RAID 1
• System 10 Gb
• 3 x 160Gb SATA Drives
• RAID 5
• Apps 100 Gb
• Data 100 Gb
• Images 80 Gb
• Future use (Altiris) 40 Gb

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Users

• Individual Logon accounts
• Staff and students
• All users have a home directory
• User profiles are NOT used
• Internet Favorites stored in Home directories
• All students have protected eduweb folder

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Groups

• Everyone
• Allstaff
• OfficeGroup
• ExecGroup
• Faculty Groups (7-12 only)
• Others as required

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Shares

• Apps
• All applications (Read only)
• Intranet
• Eduweb etc
• Studentshare
• Available to all student/staff
• Staffshare
• Available to all staff only
• Officeshare
• Available to all OfficeGroup
• Execshare
• Available to all ExecGroup
• FacultyShares
• Available to corresponding Faculty group members

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Group Policies All users

• Redirect MS Office default location to H
• Apply Internet settings
• Disable Desktop Cleanup Wizard
• Run Logon script

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Group Policies - Students

• Apply security
• Remove access to Control Panel
• Dont save settings on logoff
• Prevent access to Registry Tools

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On Logon

• Users get mapped drives to allowed shares
• Network Printers are connected
• Based on site, group or computer
• Group policies applied
• Common Desktop icons created
• based on group
• Common Internet Favorites created
• based on group

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Backup

• Weekly backup schedule
• Full Backup of data on Friday Night
• Incremental Backup on Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu
• Replace media Friday Morning
• Rollout servers
• 35/40 Gb RevDisks
• Other Servers
• Recommend 2 or 3 External Hard Disk Drives
• Eg Maxtor OneTouch II 200Gb

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Future Plans

• Windows Servers
• Remote installation of software
• WSUS updates for servers and Workstations
• Altiris Package deployment
• Apple Server Build under review
• Apple Remote Desktop software will be used to
  manage Apple Servers

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Advantage of Standard Server Build

• Able to efficiently support server
• Known configuration reduced support response
  time
• Remote Support
• Appropriate structure for schools
• (Separate build for High schools)