Warwickshire County Council and Schools with Windows 7

Windows 7 in Warwickshire Anthony Lander Senior Systems Engineer ICT Development Service Warwickshire County Council

Overview
About WCC
Windows 7 deployments in Warwickshire
North Leamington School
Challenges, successes and remaining issues
Top tips
Future Developments

About WCC
Dave Banton – Network Manager of Avon Valley School in Rugby
Regan Costello – Network Manager of Lawrence Sheriff School in Rugby
Pete Turner – WCC Senior Technician

About WCC
Approx 250 schools (30 Secondary)
Most of the primary schools are part of an Enterprise Active Directory (only 1 secondary – North Leamington)
Approx 12500 clients (XP)
Managed with SCCM, App-V
Exchange 2007 (80,000) accounts

Windows 7 TAP
North Leamington School (650+)
Wembrook Primary (100 laptops)
Kingsbury High (70 netbooks)
Shipston Primary – 30 Macs that dual boot Windows 7
Ash Green – 25 x Windows 7 VDI clients
A number of other schools just starting to deploy (Avon Valley & Lawrence Sheriff)

North Leamington School
New school to replace old school on 3 sites
Not a BSF project
ICT budget of £600K (if BSF it would have been £1.6M!
Big spend in infrastructure

North Leam Infrastructure
100Mb link direct to data centre
2 x Cisco 6500 chassis
POE switches
CAT6
VOIP telephony
Managed wireless throughout school
Cashless Catering, Print, Library and Access Control via ID card
Designed for 1:1 ratio in the future

Server deployment
NEC Flexpower (based on Intel Modular Server) 6U chassis.
4 node Server 2008 R2 hyper-v cluster
Each node has
2 x quad core CPU
32Gb RAM
2Tb Shared storage

Server deployment (cont)
Currently running 15 servers
DC, PKI
MDT
SIMS
File Servers for pupils and staff (R2 - branch cache enabled)
Print (Ricoh follow me printing solution)
Cashless Catering Backoffice Server (ID cards)
Terminal Servers.....and many more

Challenges
Cost
Deploying Windows 7 has allowed the school to use their existing computers (up to 3 years old) in the new school
Time
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit has helped to speed up the deployment of the client computers
Change
4 networks to 1, new OS, new version of Office

Group Policy Challenges
Staff are issued with a laptop which can be used at home
Their work needs to sync with the laptop, but not sync when they log in to a desktop
This is achieved with WMI filtering of GPOs so that syncing only happens on there laptop

Successes
School opened on time!
1300 pupils and 100+ staff all using Windows 7
Only 2 MDT task sequences used to deploy all the schools computers
No negative comments about the new OS
All Teaching staff use SIMS Lesson Monitor as a RemoteApp via Wireless!
App-V extensively used to roll-out new applications

Remaining issues
Start Menu – causing slow login?
IASO Backup software causing some problems
User provisioning has been problematic
Some user data failed to transfer
Need to deploy SCCM once the App-V apps are imported

Tips
WMI filtering and Security Filtering for Group Policy Objects
Group Policy Preferences – we no longer need a login script at drives are mapped via GPO’s
MDT is a fantastic tool....and it’s free!!
MDOP – App-V is a real time saver!

Future Developments
Wireless configured so that pupils and visitors can use their own laptops
More Terminal Servers hosting Applications that pupils can use remotely via Portal
Add Bitlocker to staff laptops
Every pupil has a device

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