Well July is here and it time for the annual computer purchase at the college. We replace computer labs with new computers and put the old one out to staff and faculty.

This year most of our faculty will have laptops. So recovery of a stolen laptop is on my mind.. I found an open source lojack system called Adeona. I think due to a tight budget we will probably implement this product this year.

We successfully migrated our email, file system and directory service over to Microsoft. We all have little victory parties as we began to turn off the Novell services one by one.

The file system is one of the more difficult things I had to migrate over. I feel that Novell did a great job of the file structure and shares.

At work we have been tasked with migrating from Novell to Microsoft. We use Novell for file, user authentication and Groupwise for email. Still in the planning process, we are trying to learn as much as possible about Active Directory and Exchange. I have built 4 new servers over the last week and purchased the Quest software to convert the Groupwise to Exchange. My knowledge is in Web Design and general computer support. Since our director was deployed to Iraq. My role in the IT department has changed to more a Network Systems Manager.