http://grossmonttech.edublogs.org GHS Teacher Tech Support Blog Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:09:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en eBackpack has been down all morning, but should be back up and running today by 11:00am. http://grossmonttech.edublogs.org/2009/11/16/ebackpack/ During the Thanksgiving holiday week, Grossmont High School will perform on update and upgrade on many of its computers and server infrastructure.  This will be done in an effort to bring Grossmont staff the next generation of technology being developed.  It will also allow us to integrate with the District ... http://grossmonttech.edublogs.org/2009/11/13/upgrade-2/ Last night, Grossmont upgraded to the newest release of the 2X ThinClient Server Software.  This release has resolved all of the issues we experienced in mid-April and through some of May. The original upgrade that took place over Spring Break failed as soon as students and staff members returned and ... http://grossmonttech.edublogs.org/2009/06/03/tcs-upgrade/ Over the weekend the server responsible for logging into the ThinClient system failed.  I cut over to a backup server around 7:30 Monday (6/1) morning, so ThinClient workstations are back up and running.  I brought the failed server down, and will be correcting the issue today, and hope to have ... http://grossmonttech.edublogs.org/2009/06/01/tcs/ A recent upgrade of servers has caused considerable instability of certain network resources.  That combined with a power outage in our main server room has caused various and significant anomalies which just adds to the complexity of troubleshooting these issues.  I have been working for the past week with the ... http://grossmonttech.edublogs.org/2009/04/24/tcissues/ RESOLVED: Morning of 1/27/09 Currently the web access to email is still down for most of the entire District and it is affecting all sites. However, if you connect via the "client" (installed on all ThinClient computers) you can access your mailbox. We do not know when the issue will be ... http://grossmonttech.edublogs.org/2009/01/26/district-email-down/ Welcome Back! I hope everyone had a happy and restful vacation. 2009 is among us and many changes took place during the break. The District cut over many of the web pages we use everyday including Attendance and eRoster. This means that any bookmarks or favorites you saved for these ... http://grossmonttech.edublogs.org/2009/01/05/welcome-back-2/ To prepare for new server infrastructure over the winter break, I will be cutting over several key network services during the next few days.  This may cause intermittent network interruption and or delays.  The cut-over will take place after school ends each day to reduce potential impact on students and ... http://grossmonttech.edublogs.org/2008/12/17/ghs-cut-over/ RESOLVED @ 8:49am The District Main Web site is currently down.  This may be the default Home Page for many of you, and when you open your browser and the page times out, it may appear as if the "Internet" isn't working. However, if you use bookmarks, type into the address ... http://grossmonttech.edublogs.org/2008/12/12/guhsdportal/ RESOLVED 12/4/2008 The ThinClient servers were updated over the weekend with numerous Microsoft updates that were recently published.  Apparently the servers needed a restart to complete the installation but that did not take place.  In order to restart the servers no one can be logged in which means that they have ... http://grossmonttech.edublogs.org/2008/12/03/restart-now-or-later/