The Exchange server is having problems on almost a daily basis.  After a reboot is performed, the system is functional until the next day.  The ESD is working on a fix for the problem.  Until it is fixed, you may see connection problems with email in the mornings.  It should work after I have rebooted [...]

The High School Business lab has had both the Mac OS and Windows sides updated.  The Windows side is fully updated with Windows XP SP2 and Microsoft Office 2007.  The Mac OS side is fully updated to 10.5.7 and Microsoft Office 2008.
The Middle School lab has had the same done to the 10 Intel iMac [...]

I have finally gotten the Mac OS X 10.5 software updates to function.  If you are on the main campus network, Software Update from the Apple Menu now functions normally.  The actual downloads come from the district servers and will not cause a slowdown on the network.  If you have admin access to you computer, you will [...]

The server seems to be running now.  Not sure what the problems was.  I haven’t heard anything to tell you.
It seems that it was off-line early Friday morning through to early afternoon.

The Exchange server is currently off-line.  I have a call into the ESD, but had to leave a message.

The switchover to the new Exchange email server has been completed.  From now on, all new email messages will be going to the new email server.  Until your computer has been setup with the new account settings, you can access your email by using the Outlook Web Access.  There is a link on the main [...]

Once a computer is added to the domain and connected to the secure wireless network, the traditional printing setup will not work.  Locally connected USB printers will work without any changes, but your network printer connections will need to be changed.
You can add printers in the IP section as described here.
The other method is to [...]

The CSD-Staff wireless network is now ready to be connected to most of our laptops.  Any laptop that has been updated and shows the name and password screen to login, should be ready to connect.
This is best done by a tech, but here are the steps involved in completing the setup.

Select the CSD-Staff network from [...]

After I have updated your computers, the newest version of Entourage will be the standard email client.  When you first open Entourage, it will have you create a new Office Identity.  After that is done, the Entourage Setup Assistant will open.  You will want to choose the “Import from a previous version of Entourage” option.  If you don’t [...]

It turns out the new printing setup is not compatible with the updated version of the Mac OS.  The incompatibility has existed for the last year and has no clear resolution in the near future.  So for this school year, printers will have to be setup the normal way.  That is done by opening the Control Panels [...]