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 [...]

On the new reconfig (10.5 connected to AD), printers are added through the System Preferences.  Click on the Print & Fax button.  Click on the plus “+” symbol at the bottom left just above the open padlock icon.  If you have to, click on the default icon at the top of the window, look for [...]

All laptops have been reconfigured so they can connect to the new AD (Active Directory) servers.  The main difference you will notice is the username and password field when the computer starts up.  The name you enter is First_Last (using you first and last name as it appears on the school records), and the default password.  The [...]

The school’s Web and Email server crashed at the beginning of July.  A new server was planned for the replacement of the aging unit but it couldn’t wait.  Email was configure and back up within a few days.  The large work load prevented me from dedicating the time needed to get the web server back on right [...]