Technology Department


Board Policies - These are policies that The Chimacum Schools Board of Directors have adopted regarding Internet or computer use by school staff and students. Computer Donation Guidelines - The Chimacum Schools will gladly accept your donation of a working computer at the District Office. If you wish to receive a tax write-off for the donation, you must fill out a donation form which is viewed by the School Board at their normal scheduled meeting. Internet Bandwidth Usage GraphBandwidth Graph

Server and Network Specifications - Here is a bit of information on the district network and servers.

Technology Support Request - Click here to start a new request. Use the default password to submit a new ticket.

Wireless plan and status

May 16th, 2011

The plan for the wireless network is as follows: CSD-Staff will be connectable by staff members with a school network account.  This include Macintosh, iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touch handhelds.  Windows computers that are setup to connect to the domain can also connect. CSD-Student will be turned invisible to limit its access to students that [...]

Windows Server AD2

May 16th, 2011

About 2 weeks have pasted after having to do a complete rebuild of AD2.  The rebuild installed the newest versions of everything Microsoft had to offer for Server 2008, unfortunately, not all of it is compatible specifically with Windows 7 64-bit.  This is what we run at the school.  The biggest problem has been with [...]

Internet connection problems

March 10th, 2011

A few weeks ago we were experiencing fairly server connection loss when trying to bring up webpages. Sometimes it would take five to ten minutes to get back online. Most of you know the drill now, hit the refresh or reload buttons until it works. There have been a few changes made and the five [...]

Exchange Server offline (resolved)

February 11th, 2011

We are seeing problems with the Exchange Server database this morning. We are running database recovery protocols and will have services restored as soon as possible. There is no ETA at this point. —- Update —- A second full power down and restart seems to have fixed the problem. Mail seems to be functioning now.

Exchange Server offline

February 11th, 2011

We are seeing problems with the Exchange Server database this morning. We are running database recovery protocols and will have services restored as soon as possible. There is no ETA at this point.

Server maintenance needed 1:00-1:45 today on Tethys

January 26th, 2011

Tech services needs to perform maintenance on the server Tethys between 1:00 and 1:45.  This will affect services for Renaissance Place (Accelerated Reader), HD Baker, Destiny (Library), and Transfinder.  Please logout of those services by 1:00 to avoid any data loss.  The actual maintenance may take less time, at which point I will send another [...]

Email message size

January 25th, 2011

A problem came up while trying to receive some messages from the ESD that contained larger PDF and PPT files. Settings changes have been made to the sever to allow messages up to 25 MB’s in size from now on. If there is an isolated instance where a message is larger than the size limit, [...]

Email delayed problem solved

January 18th, 2011

The problem with email being delayed has been resolved as of about 11:00 am today. After working with the ESD and WSIPC, the need changes have been made to allow the server to function normally. Thank you for your patients and understanding.

New network connection increase speed

January 13th, 2011

The District has added more bandwidth for our connection to the Internet. We now have a total of 12.88 MBps. This should give us better speeds for website on the Internet.

Problems with emails getting a delayed message

January 13th, 2011

There is a problem with email being sent to a few outside systems. Notably, any address with Olympus.net and Comcast are getting error messages that they are being delayed. We are working on the problem and will take a few days to clear up. It may even take until Monday for the message queue to [...]