School of Engineering and Technology
The student that worked on this project spent a month in Africa working at clinics in Malawi sponsored by the an university. This project was to install Microsoft Exchange 2010. It was intended to be used as a pilot project to gauge whether or not it was worthwhile to migrate from AtMail to Exchange. Project…
CACTI is an open source networking monitoring and graphing tool. With this project the student worked with the three different tasks that Cacti handles: data retrieval, data storage, and data presentation. CACTI was installed on windows server 2008 R2, Windows XP, and Ubuntu. The student ran into some problems being able to log in to…
The goal of this project was to create a new Ghost server due for lab rooms located in an university department. This needed to be done because of the decline in the old server. The student tested the new server to make sure the hardware was functioning properly and set the hard drives in raid…
This project arose when the students who used Ghost to push images to an university department’s lab was having problems with one row of computers. This row nearly always failed to obtain an IP address after a push from the Ghost server. After much consideration and collaboration with others it was decided that it must…
The students on this project worked on a way to distribute Windows updates from a central server in the lab. This would enable them to control which updates were applied and when, from a central location. This would allow them to reliably keep the labs patched and up to date throughout the week. Student Team…
The goal of this project was to organize the Interns folder. This is where the students of an university department upload and store information about the projects they are currently working on. It also contains past students project information. The students grouped similar folder files together under new parent folders and put unknown files and…
An instructor was having issues with people cheating in one of her web development classes. When the students uploaded the material they were resetting permissions allowing students to steal code from classmates. The student found a way to accomplish the server to run a script every few minutes to block the students from doing this. …
The desired outcome for this project was to install Oracle database and make remote access to the database. The student started by installing Windows XP SP3 onto a virtual machine within VMware. Next, the student installed Oracle database without any issues. When the student tried to connect to the Oracle database remotely, problems rose. The…
This project consisted of moving the data from the old intern’s folder to the Sharepoint. The backup of this data was located on the SQL server. The interns folder is a collection of the previous and present university department students projects including reports and documentation. After gaining remote access to the SQL server the student…
Throughout the duration of the semester the students worked on keeping the server room organized. The students sent items that were not functioning to surplus. Next, the computer wiring for the labs was organized using Velcro. This maximized the space the students had on the desks to work. Student Team Members: Aleksandr Sterkin, Mark Mitchell