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School District Enhances Learning With Integrated Messaging and Productivity Tools
White Papers Washington State's Kent School District struggled to maintain its varied, distributed computer environment, which included a range of Novell NetWare operating systems and the GroupWise messaging system.
[September 20, 2006, 0:00]
School District Consolidates Backup Systems, Reduces IT Workload, and Lowers Costs
White Papers Tracy Unified School District in northern California wanted to streamline the work involved in daily backups and file recoveries. Today, Tracy Unified School District rests easier knowing that its Microsoft messaging and collaboration workloads are...
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
School District Improves Communications, Education, and Safety
White Papers Located along a remote stretch of Northern California's scenic Mendocino Coast, the Fort Bragg Unified School District (FBUSD) faces daunting economic challenges, including declining Average Daily Attendance (ADA) and high unemployment in the...
[October 7, 2008, 1:01]
School District Controls Web Content and Stops Spyware With Barracuda Networks
White Papers Kingsville Independent School District, located in the southern Texas city of Kingsville, was established in 1909. The IT Department was not only dealing with the increasing need for aggressive Web content filtering to block access to inappropriate...
[June 16, 2007, 1:00]
School District Upgrades PCs to Keep Students Current on the Latest Technology
White Papers As part of that strategy, the school district has already deployed Windows Vista on 2,200 new PCs and will complete its deployment as desktops running Windows XP Professional are replaced as part of the district's hardware refresh cycle.
[October 11, 2008, 1:01]
School District Extends PBX System With Unified Communications Solution
White Papers The Lemon Grove School District, near San Diego, California, includes eight schools with 4,600 students from kindergarten through the eighth grade. The school district deployed a Microsoft unified communications solution - based on Microsoft Office...
[July 27, 2009, 1:20]
School District Addresses Core Educational Goals With Automated Project Management
White Papers Based on Microsoft Office Project Server 2003, Office Project Professional 2003, Windows SharePoint Services, and SQL Server 2000, the school district's new EPM system, Project Management Office, has automated and centralized management of the...
[November 8, 2006, 0:00]
School District Reduces Phone Costs by 66 Percent With Voice Over IP Solution
White Papers When the school district found that it was too costly to add voice mail to the systems, it decided to deploy a unified communications solution based on Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, Microsoft Office Communicator 2007, and Microsoft...
[November 4, 2008, 0:01]
School District Improves System Performance, Scalability at Microsoft Technology Center
White Papers Granite School District needed a new student information system. To alleviate concerns, the district conducted a proof-of-concept at the Microsoft Technology Center in Chicago, where architects were able to improve performance and scalability for a...
[January 1, 2007, 0:00]
Collaborative Portal Improves Education for Fourth-Largest U.S. School District
White Papers When the fourth-largest public school district in the United States needed to communicate with its more than 1 million students, parents, teachers, and administrators, Miami-Dade County Public Schools found that it had no consistent way to deliver...
[February 17, 2007, 0:00]
School District Builds Closer Connections With Schools, Students, Community Online
White Papers To serve a large and greatly diverse student population, the Rochester City School District (RCSD) has been progressively placing computers with Internet access in many students' homes through business and community programs.
[February 17, 2007, 0:00]
School District Cuts IT Support Burden by 20 Percent With New Windows XP Security Tool
White Papers The Curacao Roman Catholic School Board, a school district located on the island of Curacao, manages 86 schools with more than 20,000 students. Because of the shared computer environment, the district struggled with security and reliability issues.
[July 7, 2006, 0:00]
School District Boosts Web Performance 20 Percent, Gains Security, User Satisfaction
White Papers The Whitman-Hanson Regional School District was using an inflexible router-based Internet access solution that required the local ISP to manage all port-configuration changes. Bandwidth was maxed out without effective tools for bandwidth management...
[November 29, 2006, 0:00]
School District Partners With Parents for Students~ Success
White Papers Anoka-Hennepin School District, the largest public school district in the state of Minnesota, is dedicated to effectively educating each of its students for success. When the school board chartered the district to improve communications with...
[July 5, 2006, 0:00]
School District Reduces Tardiness Trend, Fosters Better Educational Environment
White Papers Faced with a growing number of tardy students, school administrators in the Phoenix Union High School District asked for an innovative way to stem the tide. Tardiness has dropped by up to 40 percent throughout the district's high schools, and...
[February 27, 2009, 0:23]
School District Virtualizes Aging Servers, Saves $200,000
White Papers Based in Louisville, Jefferson County Public Schools is the largest school district in the state of Kentucky. Operating in an economic downturn, the district felt pressure to reduce costs without affecting classroom learning.
[November 19, 2009, 0:21]
School District Makes Technology Available to Enhance Student Achievement
White Papers The Pittsford School District in New York State is one of the highest achieving school districts in the United States, and its commitment to student achievement begins at the elementary-school level. The district initiated a successful pilot...
[November 19, 2009, 0:21]
School District Complies With Federal Mandates by Deploying Security at the Internet Gateway
White Papers By the time the CIPA guidelines made it to Dietsche's desk, South Washington County School District was already a satisfied Trend Micro NeatSuite customer with a client/server security architecture for desktop, email, and file server protection...
[August 3, 2006, 0:00]
School District Uses Virtualization to Improve IT and Cut Costs During Budget Crisis
White Papers To reduce costs, school district's IT department wanted to cut its server acquisition rate and consolidate existing servers - while continuing efforts to improve the quality of education. With Hyper-V, the district centralized its servers and...
[July 25, 2009, 1:18]
Cisco Partner Matrix Integration Controls Spiraling Communications Costs; Unifies Voice and Data for Scott County School District
White Papers Scott County School District #2 is located in Scottsburg, Indiana. Over the years phone systems were added and upgraded as needed, and this has resulted in multiple legacy systems and communications costs that the director of technology for the...
[March 1, 2007, 0:00]
