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AD/Exchange Status Report and Q&A Thursday 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | KICC Rm. 202

AD/Exchange Status Report and Q&A Thursday 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | KICC Rm. 202. OFFICE OF EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY. Jodi Hurley Infrastructure Operations Manager, Kentucky Department of Education Office of Education Technology Lisa Brewer, Mac Nelson, Jeremy Adkins,

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AD/Exchange Status Report and Q&A Thursday 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | KICC Rm. 202

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  1. AD/ExchangeStatus Report and Q&AThursday 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | KICC Rm. 202 OFFICE OF EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY Jodi Hurley Infrastructure Operations Manager, Kentucky Department of Education Office of Education Technology Lisa Brewer, Mac Nelson, Jeremy Adkins, Joey Heady, Chris Freeland, Tim Fields Messaging and Directory Services Team

  2. Exchange 2003 Active Directory Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 K.E.N. Q&A Status Report

  3. Exchange 2003

  4. Exchange 2003 • Things you should know • Daylight Saving Time • Current Issues

  5. Exchange 2003 • Things you should know • Required environmental issues • Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) • On the same switch with DC/GC

  6. Exchange 2003 • Things you should know • Understanding Provisioning and Recipient Update Service (RUS) • Will run longer • Mass changes • Throughput issues • Rare cases where it won’t be completed by 7:00am the next morning

  7. Exchange 2003 • Things you should know • DOG Updates – coming soon • Routing Group Restrictions* • Message Tracking* • Log file viewing • OWA • System and Application logs *pilot sites testing

  8. Exchange 2003 • Things you should know • Legacy SMTP Addresses • External DNS only • Internal will work • Awaiting MUNIS changes • Perform cleanup work • HTTP over RPC

  9. Exchange 2003 • Daylight Saving Time • Operating System • Exchange 2003 • Clients (Outlook, OWA, Entourage) • Mobile devices

  10. Exchange 2003 Current Issues • Unexpected Reboots/Power Outages • Throughput • Load Balancing for OWA

  11. Exchange 2003 • Current Issues • Database growth • Overriding default limits • Use of PST’s • User Education (Large attachments, Deleted Items, Sent Items, old mail) • Offline defrags will be scheduled if needed (Weekend outage) • Backups – limited days

  12. Active Directory

  13. Active Directory • Daylight Saving Time • Windows 2003 R2 Schema Update • 64-bit Infrastructure Upgrade • Windows Vista

  14. Active Directory • Daylight Saving Time • WSUS update • WinXP_SP2, Win2K3_SP1 • GPO for Win2K clients • Manual process • Legacy clients and Macs • Not required for Vista

  15. Active Directory • R2 Schema Update • New features: • Print Management Console • DFS Replication

  16. Active Directory • R2 Schema Update • Requirements: • Windows Server 2003 R2 SP1 • Install or upgrade • Windows XP SP2 • MMC 3.0

  17. Active Directory • 64-bit Infrastructure Upgrade • Active Directory Replication Hub Servers • Faster Global Catalog convergence • GAL sync occurring faster statewide • Faster lookups for OWA and SMTP frontend servers

  18. Active Directory • Windows Vista • Schema extensions • Support

  19. Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005

  20. MOM 2005 MOM Environment • Test • Production • Monitored Services • Monitored hardware

  21. MOM 2005 • MOM Overview • Servers monitored • Alerts generated • Proactive management • Automatic tickets

  22. K.E.N.

  23. K.E.N. • Things you should know

  24. K.E.N. • Things you should know • 13 districts cutover to KEN – phase 1 • New GB switch • This will help eliminate throughput issues • New rack mounted U.P.S. • This will help eliminate unexpected shutdowns

  25. K.E.N. • Things you should know • Change the ways DNS works on DC/GC • This should help eliminate single point of failure for DNS resolution • DC/GC/Exch servers will be getting new IP addresses

  26. Q&A

  27. Q&A • Feedback: What Issues do YOU deem critical and/or important? • Service Poll: • What can we do better? • What would you like to see in the future? • General Comments • Response will be sent via CRM’s

  28. Upcoming SessionsThursday 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. An Update on the Instructional Devices Initiative for Workstations and Laptops Presenter:Christine Markert,KY Dept. of Education Co-Presenter:Damon Jackey,KY Dept. of Education Location: Hyatt RegencyRoom:Conference TheatreCapacity: 100 (Theater) Audience:Technology Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 Presenter:Dan Gorman,KY Dept. of Education Co-Presenter:KETS Partner Location: KICCRoom:L15Capacity: 250 (Theater) Audience:Technology

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