University Department’s Inventory System

The goal of this project was to develop an inventory system for the university department that could provide a record of the items owned by the department.  The information that needed to be recorded about each item included specifications, serial number, purchase date, funding source, and value of the items. Inventory policies were researched until…

Tech Camp Adobe CS3 Build

A university department hosts a Tech Camp that offers informational instructional class for high school teachers around the state.  The software that was needed for this specific Tech Camp session was Adobe CS3.  The goal of this project was to successfully create a build that contained Microsoft Windows Vista with the capability of running several…

Not-For-Profit Wireless Network

The IUPUI living lab has been helping this Not-For-Profit organization since the fall of 2012. The living lab has created the wireless network for this organization. The work that needs to be done at this moment is to configure and position a Netgear switch and replace the Buffalo WAP with a different WAP so that…

Not-For-Profit Video Broadcasts

Each week a not-for-profit organization has a day dedicated to patient engagement through video broadcasting. As a part of being in a campus relationship, students have volunteered to assist Child’s Life Specialists in running a themed video bingo and their caller driven song program. This project involves operating video and sound equipment in order to produce…

Tomcat Server

The purpose of this project is to implement an updated linux tomcat server for class/student use at university. With the installation of the server, several perl scripts must be used to import users, create home directories, and import their information into a SQL database to track their use and allow for auditing of the users…

Ghost Server

The ghost server is used to pull and push updated images to and from workstations that reside in two of the labs use by University Department students. This project was created to run and maintain the ghost server. This process included updating the image on a single machine, pulling that image back to the server,…

Apple Terminal Server

This project involves working for an instructor to evaluate the capabilities of two Mac OS X Terminal Server Solutions.  The purpose is to determine the feasibility of having an Apple Server for remote application development for students for future online classes. The project explored the performance capabilities of these programs and how many reliable concurrent…

Windows and MAC Backup Solutions

Research was conducted to locate a software solution that could back up several Windows and MAC workstations. The solution found for MAC was TimeMachine and for Windows, NTBACKUP. Also, two solutions were discovered that could back up both platforms. These solutions were iBackup and Symantec Backup Exec. Project Student: Patrick G. Fisk

Lab Computer Replacement

The goal of this project is to replace all the existing computers two university department labs.  The first step is to build an image and then test it to make sure all of the requested software and applications were functioning properly.  The second step is to replace all of the PCs in the two lab…