On 11/7/03 10:43 AM, "Scott Fosseen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I attended the Bi-States Educational Technology Summit held at the > Mississippi Bend AEA9 offices November 4th and 5th. This event was > organized by Integrated Resource Design Group or IRDG, a new company out of > Davenport. > > > > The first session I attended was Mac OSX and Windows Integration. This hour > long session was one of my primary reasons for attending. This session > turned out to be an overview of what can be done to allow workstations to > authenticate from either a Windows or Mac server. In the presentation two > scenarios were discussed. > > > > The first option was using an Active Directory Primary Domain Controller and > a Mac OSX 10.2 or greater file server. By using the Mac OSX file server for > user home directories Mac OSX clients could be managed by Workgroup Manager > and auto map the home directory. Windows workstations would also be able to > run login scripts to map home directories as well. > > > > The second option used only Mac OSX 10.3 servers to act as Windows Domain > Controllers. The primary benefit is that if no Windows servers are on the > network no Windows client CALs need to be purchased. If the network has a > combination of Windows Active Directory clients AND Mac OSX 10.3 (Panther) > servers the Mac servers will be seen to the Windows Servers as standard > member servers. > > > > The second session was Linux Basics. This was a � day presentation with > some hands-on time. I have attached the slides from the presentation for > those who are interested. The session covered how Linux originated, a hands > on demo installing several different distributions of Linux, Differences > between FreeBSD and Linux, Linux interface and configuration, and the > different desktop applications that can be ran from Linux. See the attached > PDF for more details > > > > Western Iowa now has a new Apple Rep. Here is his contact Info > > > > Ed Cranston > > 319-339-1104 phone > > 319-621-3322 Cell > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Three Tech Coordinators from AEA 14 schools, Ed, and I had dinner together > discussing the summit and general apple topics. > > > > Wednesday sessions included � day Apple OSX administration class by Kevin O' > Neil and a session on Macintosh client management. The two panel discussion > groups were combined into one but it was not very well attended. > > > > For a first year event it was pretty good. After attending I would like to > see ITEC offer � day technical training on all three days similar to what > was offered here. > > > > If you have any other questions about the event please let me know. Thanks. > > _____________________________________________________________________ > Scott Fosseen - Systems Engineer -Prairie Lakes AEA > http://fosseen.us/scott > _____________________________________________________________________ > This is to inform you that a memo will be issued today regarding the > subject mentioned above. - memo sent by Microsoft Legal Affairs > Division > _____________________________________________________________________ > So does this mean that the AEA is going to support OS X severs now? -- Lance L. Lennon District Technology Director Eagle grove Community School District 515-448-5143 --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] --------------------------------------------------------- Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ---------------------------------------------------------
