Argentina Delegation

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Argentina Delegation

• August 6, 2012

Miami-Dade County Public Schools
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Portal Infrastructure and Build
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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

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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

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Hardware
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Replication Topology
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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-Techs P-Synch software used
• Users register challenge QA for self reset

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Single Sign-On
Single sign-on technology used for transparent
access to resources
An overlaying system of session tickets allow
uses to login once and access disparate
applications
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Storage and Backup

• Backup Strategy
• 20 TB fiber channel SAN space allocated
• 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

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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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Cost to Implement

• Total Cost to Implement Portal - 3.5 million

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