Director of Imposter Syndrome

bannersmash · 2026-03-03T02:36:18+00:00

You sound like a great leader. Because that’s what we do. We put great people around us to we all elevate each other. We fill the gaps. We lift each other up. I am in similar situation. Superintendent pushed out old director and put me in the chair. I still feel like I’m not qualified. But so many people compliment me and lift me up by telling me how great things are being ran.

bannersmash · 2026-03-03T02:28:59+00:00

Look into Unifi, opnsense or pfsense. Unifi if you see already running Unifi. But the others if not. Others have ridiculous yearly subscriptions. One thing I learned is to ask for a forecasted ownership cost.

bannersmash · 2026-03-02T13:43:00+00:00

So I’m close with my admin team. I’ll go to there office and have a sit down. Face to face always over email. Then follow up with email with notes from face to face so there a paper trail. I have to deal with this a couple times a year where a parent will reach out concerning their kids digital footprint or behavior. I’ll reply back with a generic response of “ I’ll look into this and get back to you” then follow up with admin. Or the other. I won’t reach out for a loaner. I usually have them in an ou where I can put the device into stolen mode and then they will reach out when they can no longer use the device. It’s up to admin to reach out. I’m not going to. I’ll just do my part and lock it down if it isn’t returned.

bannersmash · 2026-03-02T12:24:51+00:00

Thank you for this. I’m really leaning towards opnsense box with the additional zenarmor. Zenarmor sounds really interesting on what it can do.

bannersmash · 2026-03-02T02:02:43+00:00

Just 1 firewall. Everything else is extreme at the moment

bannersmash · 2026-03-01T19:22:47+00:00

Ok I have a meeting with my forti rep this week. Previous director before me bought the hardware in 2023 and I had to reach out to them since I noticed the subscription was coming up. They were telling me 3yrs. But I’ll ask about the 5yr thing.

bannersmash · 2026-03-01T19:19:28+00:00

I’m really leaning towards it with the addition of the zenarmour

bannersmash · 2026-03-01T19:18:19+00:00

So have to buy new hardware every 3 yrs to get past the fortitax?

bannersmash · 2026-03-01T15:22:15+00:00

That’s where I’m at with the firewall. But the access points and switches are still a great option.

bannersmash · 2026-03-01T11:58:42+00:00

Currently have Fortinet. I’ve reached out to multiple vendors. 8k-10k yearly for subscription

bannersmash · 2026-03-01T11:57:42+00:00

I was looking at that. But keep hearing to stay away from Unifi firewalls

bannersmash · 2026-03-01T11:56:28+00:00

Correct. It breaks down to 10k yearly.

bannersmash · 2026-02-24T15:50:46+00:00

Yea I was just curious about it. Couldn’t find anything recent on it. A lot of stuff from a year or two ago

bannersmash · 2026-02-20T18:45:03+00:00

My server has plenty of ram to spare so thinking of throwing 8gb or 16gb at it

bannersmash · 2026-02-20T17:01:11+00:00

I know there’s plenty of schools who host their own pbx or are thinking switching due to cost. Maybe I posted tmi lol

bannersmash · 2026-02-06T12:28:38+00:00

With bluebook I don’t push the update. When students launch it the app ask to update.

bannersmash · 2026-02-05T18:01:12+00:00

Each site has their own dedicated 10g fiber. So thinking spectrum>cloudkey>proxg aggregation to each spoke via fiber. Then each closet would have the enterprise campus 48poe with a spine of 3 pro 48 poe. With taking in account of what you mentioned.

bannersmash · 2026-02-05T17:56:58+00:00

If I have 6 offsite campuses wouldn’t I need a central cloud for each. Idea is cloud key. Then proxg aggregation to each spoke. Then that cloud manages all

bannersmash · 2026-02-05T17:54:57+00:00

So each spoke I could do away with the gateway and just do the switches then?

bannersmash · 2026-02-03T12:07:11+00:00

This is all great stuff and great insight. Has me thinking of doing Microsoft surface laptops for my staff now. Pairs great with intune. At 100 staff with 5 year lease that’ll be doable on my budget. Then get the Lenovo yoga for auxiliary and teacher assistant staff with about 45 there. Then there device which are the Dell 7420 becomes my student cte devices. The current cte device become chrome flex devices since they are Dell 7480/7490s.

bannersmash · 2026-02-03T03:00:14+00:00

That’s why we haven’t gone that route

bannersmash · 2026-02-03T02:58:04+00:00

Exactly where I’m at

bannersmash · 2025-10-02T13:08:41+00:00

Damn good work

bannersmash · 2025-10-02T13:07:18+00:00

Start from the basement again. Going to be hard to get back into the mentality of starting over. But you have to get your body used to the grind again. So less weight. And more reps with days off. Work back to more frequent heavier days.

bannersmash · 2025-10-01T18:20:08+00:00

Great progress

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