Transcript Argentina Delegation August 6, 2012 Miami-Dade County Public Schools PORTAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND BUILD.

Argentina Delegation
August 6, 2012
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
PORTAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND BUILD
Overview
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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
Initial Infrastructure Build
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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
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
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
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
Single Sign-On
Single sign-on technology used for transparent access to resources
Student
Gradebook
Food Services
Portal
Single Sign-On
Transportation
HR / Payroll
RiverDeep
E-Mail
An overlaying system of session
tickets allow uses to login once and
access disparate applications
Storage and Backup
 Backup Strategy
 20 TB fiber channel SAN space allocated
 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
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)
Cost to Implement
• Total Cost to Implement Portal - $3.5 million