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Distributed SysAdmin

 * Attendees** :
 * Rob Shin - Riverdale Country School (Sys Admin)
 * Raúl Cuza - UNIS (Asst. Dir of Tech)
 * David Liang
 * Jim Anderson - Packer (Director of Technology)
 * Bill Romanowski - Kew-Forest School (Dir of Technology)
 * Adam Newman - Rodeph Sholom School (Network Manager)


 * UNIS**
 * MacBook Airs 1:1, 5-12
 * Casper (to monitor time machine, among other things)
 * Laptop carts for grades ¾
 * iPad carts for lower grades


 * David Liang**:
 * Saint David's School
 * 430 Student body
 * 1:1 from 6-8 Laptops and 4&5 Chromebooks
 * Pk-3 Apple iPad
 * VMware Windows 2008 and 2012
 * Google Drive for entire school
 * 1:1 Faculty PC laptop
 * Cart for Lower school science, music, math


 * Riverdale Country School**
 * 1-to-1 for faculty (mostly MacBook Air and Pros)
 * Mavericks and Yosemite KILLED the Pros, so we bought SSDs
 * 1-to-1 iPad minis for middle school
 * 75 Windows desktops with roaming profile + user rights
 * Carts = MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, old white MacBook
 * Security is a problem. We don’t have cameras.
 * We use Meraki, but it is limited
 * Problems at RCS
 * Faculty not using Time Machine
 * Lack of interest with certain faculty (option was not given for 1-to-1)
 * Lead User Group
 * Culture Obstacle = Why are faculty not interested?
 * LOANER laptops
 * Spanning Backup http://spanning.com/ (for Google Apps for Ed)
 * ExtremeZ-IP
 * Insurance for faculty is 50% (?) for first incident and then 100% of subsequent incidents


 * Kew-Forest School**
 * Lenovo AIO 23” for faculty and staff
 * students carts in library and lower school using ipads, netbooks, HP laptops and old white MacBooks which are being phased out as the die.
 * LogMeIn for remote access
 * Pulseway for monitoring PC’s
 * Using Gmail and Google Docs
 * Content filter in the cloud
 * All students grades 4-12 have gmail but only can send & receive within our domain.


 * The Packer Collegiate Institute**
 * 1:1 15 years
 * Apple MS 5-8
 * Used to have PC in US but now all Mac OS X
 * Senior Systems self hosted (admin use desktop PC)
 * Laptop carts for 3 and 4
 * Some chromebook experiments
 * iPads in younger grades
 * Casper
 * ExtremeZ-IP
 * Use FirstClass. Looking for new LMS.
 * Dual delivery for FirstClass and GMail
 * Backup-a-fi
 * Flash panel (to manage users and groups)
 * NYSAIS review drove use of Google Apps in faculty
 * VIrtualization - Hyper Converge (kvm based) HC3 system from Scale Computing


 * Master School**
 * 700 students (5 - 12), boarding
 * Cart
 * still have a lab (WISE thin clients)
 * unrestricted BYOD on device (MAC OR PC?!?)
 * fiercely enforced firewall
 * has a network security is where they focus
 * Not going to cloud
 * Good solid virtual environment