Enterprise Portal Presentation Miami-Dade County Public Schools MDCPS Background Fourth largest school district Serving 2,400 square miles Services 180 different home languages Over 340 public.
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Enterprise Portal Presentation Miami-Dade County Public Schools MDCPS Background Fourth largest school district Serving 2,400 square miles Services 180 different home languages Over 340 public schools; over 80 Charter schools Over 340,000 students Over 45,000 employees; over 5,000 Charter employees Mobility rate – 27% The Big Picture • The Vision Have all users connected to all information at anytime • The Challenges Schools under state sanction Need to increase parental involvement Giving our users access to their systems in one area Providing our parents an easy and consistent way to monitor their child’s progress Connect silo systems Reduce paper-based systems Provide easy and consistent access to information 3 MDCPS Foundation • • • • • • • • • Active Directory Account and Auto Update – MIIS and ILM Password Synchronization – P-Synch District Email – Outlook Exchange District wide Gradebook – Global Scholar / Excelsior Metro Ethernet to each remote site Patch Management and Virus Protection – Big Fix and Sophos Data Warehouse – Microsoft SQL OLAP (On-line Analytical Processing tool) - Cognos Self Service for Technology Support - HEAT MDCPS Foundation • District-wide federated library catalog -Destiny • District-wide assessment tool – Edusoft • District-wide instructional applications, including Riverdeep Destination Series Voyager Solo and Ticket to Read Jamestown Navigator Plato Learning Library Reference Databases-Groliers, SIRS, Gale, Facts on File, etc • District-wide test generator - ExamView Implementation/Timeline 2009 - 2010 Business Partners Food Service Live@Edu Links to Learning Teacher Assessment 2008 - 2009 Attendance Intervention SPOT Portal Lite May 1, 2006 2007 - 2008 District and Community Enterprise Portal Deployment; Global 2006 - 2007 Registration Infrastructure and System Employee Portal with Collaboration Volunteer SAP SOS Employee Self-Service SharePoint 2010 SES Weekly Briefing Internship Professional Development RiverDeep Unified Communications (OCS) 6 Decision Making Process • Key Criteria Existing infrastructure and skill sets Scalability Technology partners and third party services Flexibility Rapid Development • Why SharePoint? Experience with Microsoft Products Mature Microsoft Exchange Environment (ADS) Successful Portal “Lite” Established Personnel and Student Data Warehouse Microsoft Platform throughout District Good Partner Relationship with Microsoft 7 The Solution - www.dadeschools.net Students Parents Employees Community 8 Lessons Learned on Portal Deployment 9 Lessons Learned • Portal Lite • Over Estimating Services, Under Estimating Staff • Over Estimating Community and Parents Technical Awareness • Mapping and Establishing Environments Beforehand • Change Control in Place • Getting all Parts to Work Together • Limited best practice for MOSS as it as a new product • Deployment issues (test -> staging -> production) • No build process 10 Portal Infrastructure and Build 11 Overview Active Directory Environment Historically decentralized AD environment Portal project coincided with AD migration project DMZ forest was created for student and parent accounts Initially intended for web applications only 12 Initial Infrastructure Build Environment architecture and design Security architecture and certificates Hardware sizing and implementation Active Directory Schema modifications Database architecture and build Data Warehouse interface and data positioning Development and Integration environments Active Directory provisioning and replication 13 Hardware Load Balancer Sharepoint Web 1 SQL Server Cluster 1 Sharepoint Web 2 SQL Server Cluster 2 Sharepoint Web 3 Sharepoint Web 4 SQL Server Cluster 3 Tape Library Fiber attached SAN 14 Replication Topology Bridgehead Site 8 DC’s School Site School 1 DC Site School 1 DC Sites 1 DC MIIS 343 Remote Sites Data Warehouse Mainframe 15 Account Creation and Management Dynamic Provisioning into AD Guardians identified with a PIN and questions about the student Guardians linked to student as an attribute of the AD user object Password self-reset M-Tech’s P-Synch software used Users register challenge Q&A for self reset 16 Single Sign-On Version 3 single sign-on (Web SSO) technology used for transparent access to resources Student Gradebook Food Services Portal Single Sign-On Transportation HR / Payroll RiverDeep An overlaying system of session tickets allow uses to login once and access disparate applications E-Mail 17 Storage and Backup Backup Strategy 20 TB fiber channel SAN space allocated for the portal 20 TB lower cost FATA drives allocated as a staging area Staging area is backed up nightly to a tape library Selected collaboration sites are kept on different retention schedules 18 Resources to Maintain 2 System Administrators – handle all updating to environments 2 Exchange Specialists (Part time) 1 Database Administrator (Part time) 3 .Net Developers 1 Network Analyst (Part time) 19