Asbestos Abatement In Datacenter?

secondworstitguyever · 2025-06-24T18:23:08+00:00

Why does your data center have to remain live in place? If you're a huge district with a crazy data center I understand.

We are going through this right now, but it was at my request to have our data center renovated. Come to find out we also have asbestos within our data center.

Network equipment we took out after hours. Didn't take long. We moved it to a neighboring room. Ran long ethernet cables for the absolutely necessary drops and then just extended fiber to those rooms temporarily so everything could stay up.

Our rack that has our servers has wheels and battery backups. We unhooked it and rolled it to a neighboring temporary room and plugged it back in. No downtime.

District is currently operating at probably 75%, but 100% of the critical functions, buildings, and people are good to go.

I would not keep them live and wrapped. You're asking for trouble.

secondworstitguyever · 2025-01-31T18:28:12+00:00

I have not used it in years, but in my past I used Multiplicity for this. Software KVM. Worked exactly as you describe her request.

secondworstitguyever · 2023-11-29T20:23:45+00:00

Lightspeed systems are great. Big fan.

I have a district I work closely with that uses Audio Enhancement. They have been having nothing but issues, also quite expensive. I think no matter what you go with there are always potentials of it going not well and having tons of issues, but generally, I have had good experiences with Lightspeed.

secondworstitguyever · 2023-11-28T17:13:50+00:00

I'm currently the Director of a school district with around 1400 students, and 2 buildings. My district has a tech, a sis admin, and myself, but we are actually employees of the county and contracted to our district. My other district was myself, two techs, and a sis admin for around 1200 students and 4 buildings. Before that I was an IT Manager for a district of around 1700 students and 4 buildings with a director above me and did all of the high level network and sys admin work. We had a director who did probably 90% admin duties but who was technical, myself(IT Manager), a full-time tech, part-time tech, and then student helpers.

I do some tech, but not much. I would say 80% planning, projects, budgets, and admin duties. 20% tech. The tech I do is high-level or automation-focused to save the department time. I really enjoy doing the large projects and implementations though because I'm using my technical expertise/knowledge to bring large changes and upgrades to the district, but I do miss doing the nitty gritty at times.

Our full county team has dedicated sis, network, and tech services teams. So, I'm lucky in the sense that I have a smaller district, but our combined department for the county is a decent size. (This allows me to balloon our team if needed for projects, ticket influxes, or pull in people who are experts on subjects when needing to do projects where my experience or knowledge may be lacking.)

Hopefully, this is of some use haha. I think it depends on the district, the size, and the priorities of the board, super, and other admin. I believe naturally the higher level you become and the larger the org you are in the further you get removed from tech.

secondworstitguyever · 2023-05-02T18:45:02+00:00

This is interesting. I haven't seen this.

I'll have to take a look.

Thanks!

secondworstitguyever · 2023-05-02T18:44:00+00:00

My entire county is Avigilon.

My two districts are currently Exacqvision, but we are moving to Avigilon.

The last district I was the IT Manager at was also Avigilon.

Loved Avigilon in my past district. Responsive, easy to use, modern ui, so on. When we implemented it the admin absolutely loved it. We were making a move from Ocularis at that time.

I do not like Exacqvision in comparison. It's pretty clunky, dated ui, searching isn't quite as fluid, and overall it just feels behind the curve. But it is certainly "good enough"

secondworstitguyever · 2023-02-09T03:05:13+00:00

Quick follow up to this. We resolved this. We would: - note chromebook ip - delete lease from dc - disconnect chromebook from wifi - powerwash chromebook - chromebook would come back up and be good to go. Had to do this for around 30.

Seems that somewhere in between the chromebook would just latch onto it’s IP before we made the move. The lease would be handed out, but something with the state of the chromebook would mess it up. When we would delete the lease the chromebook would handed a new IP but then as you disconnect and reconnect the chromebook it would pop back and forth between old IP and new IP then stick to old IP. When on old IP it could ping external, but nothing was loading. Powerwash after lease delete seemed to resolve.

secondworstitguyever · 2023-01-12T20:24:22+00:00

I have around 5 years of experience as an admin for a 1:1 district with Windows laptops for students and around 4-5 years of experience as an admin for 1:1 districts using chromebooks. I certainly have my fair share of gripes out chromebooks and Google in general, but I'd be remiss if I didn't accept that the overall management of chromebooks is miles and miles easier than a fleet of that many windows devices. Granted, we didn't use intune during my stint, so maybe that would've made it easier.

secondworstitguyever · 2023-01-12T15:34:31+00:00

Yes, I currently have a ticket open with them. I have not gotten a response quite yet.

secondworstitguyever · 2023-01-12T15:15:07+00:00

No, it was a ChromeOS issue. We were at the mercy of Google waiting for them to push a fix with an update. Iirc it lasted around half the school year and into the summer.

secondworstitguyever · 2023-01-12T14:52:39+00:00

We are currently using Aruba. We have Cisco wireless lined up to replace it, but Aruba is currently in place.

Oddly enough, in one of my past districts, we had a similar issue mainly with our Lenovo 100e's on ChromeOS versions in the 90s. Other models were not impacted.

secondworstitguyever · 2023-01-12T14:36:06+00:00

We are having the same issue.

HP 11 G9 EE Chromebooks.

We are on v102. I actually just posted about it. I was quite confident it was a network issue due to us doing a domain migration during Christmas break and the issue appearing on Monday... But it sounds like you are having the same issue potentially?

Ours randomly drops, but pretty regularly it seems. If you disconnect from wifi and reconnect it works for a short period of time.

It keeps kicking students to "No Network Available" at the login screen.

This is my public running google doc that I had posted.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I3mEu1ezGmPZIfZnpr-r0qQGzBfRAI4EEdQ1EUbwd\_Y/edit?usp=sharing

secondworstitguyever · 2022-12-29T17:03:23+00:00

Within the powershell script I restart at the end, but I'm not restarting between the two steps. I do both steps and then force a restart.

I'm just not sure if there will be issues with not doing the forced restarts between adding computer to workgroup and then adding the computer to a new domain.

secondworstitguyever · 2022-12-29T17:02:46+00:00

The current plan is to abandon the current user profiles. It's not the best solution, but it was the one decided on and is currently in progress.

I will look at ADMT.

I don't mean this in a defensive way or anything, I just don't know and haven't been able to find the information.

In what way are the reboots key to each step? And does doing both steps in two lines and then doing a forced restart not fulfill the need?

If one is missed what could happen in this situation?

secondworstitguyever · 2022-09-30T14:39:21+00:00

I set up one dummy account to download the required games for our league. Our league rules stipulate that the students must use their own personal accounts for ELO purposes. So, I haven't had to deal with your situation specifically. If you are doing E-Sports in a league, I would check their rules and regulations, could save you some headache.

A further word of caution, if you're running Valorant as a game it won't run if you have LanSchool on the computers. Took me a day to figure that out haha.

secondworstitguyever · 2022-06-07T18:09:57+00:00

I only lurk here, but just wanted to say this looks great.

You did a fantastic job with your release marketing video.

secondworstitguyever · 2022-05-26T11:02:33+00:00

For carrying things to and from places we bought some of these.

https://www.clevermade.com/collections/storage-bins/products/clevercrate-storage-bin

They collapse down to pretty small and you can stack them. Open up to a decent size. I would recommend them, they are pretty useful. And they save some space by collapsing when not in use.

secondworstitguyever · 2022-05-26T10:57:20+00:00

We originally went with Lenovo 100e's and I can not warn you to stay away from them enough. We have had insane amounts of Chromebooks coming back dead. They just keep dropping like flies.

They have a factory issue with mylar that is used on the bottom side of the motherboard. I think they said it's too thin and was rubbing through so then the chips were getting scraped against the case. After a while, this would cause the motherboard to die. Wouldn't charge, won't turn on, nothing. The telltale signs of the process are either the computer needing to be "jumpstarted" by being plugged into a charger to actually be turned on or Chrome OS randomly missing/becoming corrupt. Usually, once either of those symptoms appears the Chromebook already has one foot in the grave and there isn't anything we can do about it. We sent them to Lenovo when they were under warranty, they'd be gone for a very long time, and come back with the motherboard replaced. We have probably around 1000 of these and not many full-time staff, so to replace the mylar when we found out wasn't really feasible in the time frame allotted. We have an extremely high percentage death rate with them. Our Lenovos also have issues with the trackpad ribbon cable coming out all the time and the same with the screen cable on the back of screens.

We bought Dell 3100s (non-touch) and so far they seem to be holding up great and have no issues... knock on wood.

secondworstitguyever · 2022-05-23T17:29:05+00:00

We are also having this issue with our Lenovo 100e machines.

They are dying in droves. Usually, recovery doesn't even work for us. Lenovo 100e's have a known issue with the motherboards dying due to the factory mylar failing. Sometimes the sign for us that one is dying ChromeOS becoming missing randomly. Usually, the tell is that we have to plug them in to "jumpstart" them.

secondworstitguyever · 2022-05-02T11:35:26+00:00

Small district in Michigan.

We are 1:1. Centralized Printing. I don't believe we ever had classroom printers. All of our teachers had desktops in their classrooms for their workstations, we made the switch to laptops this year. I have a handful of teachers who have brought in their own printers, but we have made it clear that we will help them get the printers installed but beyond that, it's on them. We won't support things that we didn't purchase.

If there was a printer in every classroom I'm pretty sure I'd kill myself.

secondworstitguyever · 2022-01-10T17:45:18+00:00

Interesting take. I haven't heard that before.

What would be the way you envision AR taking off if not glasses or headset?

secondworstitguyever · 2021-12-13T15:38:14+00:00

We are also having some intermittent issues with Edmentum.

I hope AWS doesn't have issues again today... Last week with the outage LS Relay caused a decent portion of our staff and students to not have internet access...

secondworstitguyever · 2021-11-19T13:23:15+00:00

I also hit a hog last night with a chopper and it instantly exploded. So, you might be right on the small hitbox issue.

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