Guest WI-FI

During the afternoon of Friday just passed, we are now testing a guest WI-FI profile on our infrastructure. A couple of staff members have had their phones and iPads linked to said profile, so we'll monitor and go from there.

A late night/early morning restore

After an evening out, on my return I found that our new website was throwing up an interesting error that wouldn't go away - even after a restart.

So decided to restore the site from backup, and hay presto, all appears to be working as expected once more.

New website

The school's new website went live for the 1st of January 2013 - its been in the development stage for about the last 6 or so months; everything that was put into the old one was entered at the same time into the new; this made it look a bit more filled out rather than an empty shell at launch.

I've opted to use WordPress; its an amazing application that adds to our "Single Sign-On" ethos and integrated well with out Active Directory. WordPress also makes it much easier for our visitors to find stuff; practically everything is searchable.

Staff will have write access to their relevant pages so that it becomes their responsibility to keep their pages up to date rather than IT.

There are a few things yet to go on, but they'll be done in good time.

HHD Failure - 1st of the year

A new year isn't a new year without an HDD failure; thankfully its RAID so the server is carrying on as normal, and I'm waiting for a hot swappable replacement.