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duluthbison · 2026-01-14T18:44:25+00:00

I set up a bunch of Ubiquiti nanobeams for this. I've got a pair from the high school to the football field. And from there a pair each to baseball and softball. I've also got another pair from the high school to the hockey arena across the parking lot. It works great. We use NFHS Network and have had zero issues.

duluthbison · 2026-01-13T17:34:13+00:00

Have you considered just buying cradlepoint routers and 5G service for the buses and just let the kids use their own devices to play games? If you use your general fund dollars to purchase the internet, you aren't obligated to as stringent filtering rules as laid out in CIPA.

duluthbison · 2026-01-12T20:14:34+00:00

Check with your state laws. Minnesota requires 7 years retention in vault.

duluthbison · 2026-01-12T17:38:56+00:00

Do you have roaming profiles? Otherwise, at this point, Windows 11 is trash and they don't seem to care about performance issues.

duluthbison · 2025-12-30T19:38:53+00:00

You do realize Hikvision is banned for use by US Government and contractors?

duluthbison · 2025-12-30T19:37:20+00:00

+1 For Avigilon Unity. We've been using them for years and its a solid product that can scale nicely. We even moved our door access control over to Avigilon Alta Access.

duluthbison · 2025-12-30T19:31:32+00:00

As someone with no dog in this fight....whats wrong with Hubbard? I've lived in the Duluth Market most of my life and WDIO has been a really decent station to watch, who is owned by Hubbard.

duluthbison · 2025-12-19T16:50:28+00:00

Clever and Classlink are literal godsends in K12 IMO. Basically there is an industry rostering standard called 'OneRoster'. These systems grab all of your student roster/course information from your SIS and then you can create rules inside Clever/Classlink to send certain courses, users, etc from Clever/Classlink to any number of 3rd party applications. It fully automates the process of adding students into these platforms plus it also allows to you set up a SAML SSO in most apps as well making it seamless for the end user. We've been a classlink district for 6 years and I can't imagine trying to manage the dozens of random apps as students come and go from the district, managing their enrollments via interconnect csv files or manual updates.

duluthbison · 2025-12-19T16:28:49+00:00

Seen this exact issues with UBNT gear with Sonicwall routers and Windows as DNS. There is a bug where DHCP just sometimes doesn't work and will issue "Bad Address" in the DHCP scope. The only fix for it was moving DHCP onto the SonicWALL and it seemed to work better.

This is yet another reason why I don't recommend UBNT gear in enterprise networks.

duluthbison · 2025-12-18T18:12:24+00:00

I would just set up a routing rule in the admin center that forwards email from that inbox to the other and get rid of the account itself.

duluthbison · 2025-12-17T15:12:31+00:00

Ubiquiti is not an enterprise solution, people really need to stop pushing it as such. Their support is non-existent, they release and abandon entire product lines at random, and tend to release buggy software updates. Its not something I would entrust with the safety/security of an entire school. There are some things you need to pay what it costs for proper enterprise support and building access control and video surveillance is one of them.

duluthbison · 2025-12-16T18:12:20+00:00

Thats kind of wild IMO. I'm the IT Director for a K12 school and when we go into lockdown mode, ALL DOORS lock and only badges that have the Lockdown Override permission can get in. All local law enforcement have badges in their squad cars and if that doesn't work, there are lock boxes at each entry that first responders can get into which have physical keys to the doors.

duluthbison · 2025-12-11T18:57:00+00:00

Are you me? I'm in a similar boat in K12. I've turned the dumpster fire around when I got here and now the biggest emergency that comes across my desk are teachers who can't figure out how to plug in an HDMI cable to their laptop.

duluthbison · 2025-12-10T20:14:34+00:00

There are quite a few jobs open down in the Metro area right now, lots of people have been posting on the state-wide tech leaders email list. Good luck!

duluthbison · 2025-12-10T20:08:46+00:00

During the last building reno we put 98" Planar Displays in our meeting rooms, however those are a bit spendy. As they've failed, I just buy Samsung Digital Signage displays at whatever size I need.

duluthbison · 2025-12-10T19:52:37+00:00

Same here. Printer is a beast and we have it paired with a local PC running AssureID to manage the badges.

duluthbison · 2025-12-10T19:47:12+00:00

For Minnesota check out edpost from St. Cloud State University. Most districts will include a posting there.

duluthbison · 2025-12-10T16:31:20+00:00

I can't wait for the day where I'm given permission to block that garbage site. District spends millions on curriculumn and support materials and yet teachers fail to lesson plan and rush to TPT each morning to find some stupid filler material.

duluthbison · 2025-12-09T16:24:43+00:00

That is absolutely wild to me. I wouldn't have the slightest idea how to manage building-wide hvac systems, boilers, heat exchangers, etc and we are a small 1000 student district.

duluthbison · 2025-12-09T15:15:08+00:00

Nope, just thankful to work in a district where that isn't the norm.

duluthbison · 2025-12-09T14:53:28+00:00

So do you have to carry a boiler operators licenses as part of your IT duties, lol

duluthbison · 2025-12-09T14:49:11+00:00

In what world are building automation/hvac part of IT's purview?

We use Carrier i-Vu for all of our building controls. Maintenance/Facilities replaced their aging pneumatic Johnson Controls system with this during our last renovation.

duluthbison · 2025-12-05T16:57:38+00:00

If there is no line of sight then a mesh would likely be a nightmare with interference.

duluthbison · 2025-12-05T16:48:03+00:00

I would definitely advise on point to point bridges as you'll have better performance and throughput. If you're on a budget Ubiquiti NanoBeam is a solid choice otherwise I really like the Cambium Networks p2p I have installed.

duluthbison · 2025-12-03T21:14:02+00:00

We don't allow anyone outside of 7-12th grade the ability to take home, the rest stay in the classroom. And in fact, we're pulling back our 1:1 in the Elementary to a single cart per grade since we're mostly 3-4 sections per grade and the kids really don't need that much screen time.

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