School of Engineering and Technology
A local Fortune 100 company required re-imaging of old computers from Windows 98 to Windows 7 operating system. New computers were imaged with Windows 7 as well. The image of each computer was customized to user software requirements, and also providing certain user administrator rights. Upon completion of the imaging, computers were delivered to users….
An IT-28 security audit was performed on the Living Lab providing documentation and recommendations to faculty and staff. Project Team: Destiny Smith and Wade Kirby
Goal: This project aims to create forms in the University Course WordPress site in order to enable Student Status reporting to be done through the site rather than through excel spreadsheets. Need for this project: Every week students of this University Course submit a Weekly Project Status Report that documents the time spent on various…
An Indiana University tech support department had a severely cluttered and non-intuitive organizational unit (OU) structure. A Living Lab student designed a new OU with a standardized structure and more effective and modular Group Policy Objects (GPOs) to simplify management and navigation. PowerShell scripts were used to copy a standardized root structure to each department…
This project is as a result of a need to make an easily compiled semester status report. Prior to this undertaking Project managers would have to open individual status report excel files which tends to be cumbersome, especially when they need to research projects from a previous semester, when this new status report is implemented,…
This project entails editing and updating an existing website for a local not-for-profit organization using a content management software (CMS). Two existing website pages were modified to add updated content and images. A new web page was created and populated with content provided by client. End user training and a user guide was provided to…
An Indiana University department needed a new file server with more storage space. The project used spare university-owned equipment to create a new, more powerful file server with more storage than the previous file server. The new physical server will eventually replace a subscription-based virtual machine and save the department several thousands of dollars per…
A non-for-profit organization, which serves and supports the LGBTQ community of the greater Indianapolis area, has formed a working relationship with the Living Lab of IUPUI. Students volunteer their time by providing the organization’s technical support and managing the operations of the computer and network systems. Student Team Members: Justin White, Devan Hardwick
This project’s goal is to update Living Lab’s current file repository, allowing students to upload a project along with a summary through a web-based front-end. The Omeka website will allow students, staff, and authorized guests to browse through the repository, search projects by semester, client, student, and type. Additionally, the text from pdf files is…
IUPUI is donating used computers to a local not-for-profit. Half of the company will need to be migrated from Windows XP to Windows 7 before the XP support expiration date. Most of the computers at the company will need replaced by the donated computers. The same company is also looking to find a new IT…