[MACEP] Terminal Servers

[Rose, Jan]

I was interested in Charlie's "take" on Evergreen.  My daughter teaches
in that district and it was VERY difficult for most teachers the first
year they went to terminal services.  She ended up keeping a stand-alone
Macintosh so that her students could have a year book.

It seems like teachers may need more instruction and direction the first
year or so if a district is going this route.

Jan Rose
Computer Coordinator
La Salle High School
Milwaukie, OR 

-----Original Message-----
From: macep-bounces at macep.net [mailto:macep-bounces at macep.net] On Behalf
Of charlie irish
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 8:12 AM
To: macep at macep.net
Subject: Re: [MACEP] Terminal Servers

Evergreen School District in Washington has gone almost entirely that
route
district wide except for a relatively few specialized workstations. They
have found that there is minimal hardware cost savings because what they
don't spend on workstations they have to spend on increased server
capacity.
Their savings have been in the time and cost of having techs not have to
run
around to many sometimes widely spaced locations.

For a smaller district that already has excess server capacity and
network
bandwidth it can make some sense, but in terms of savings on hardware
costs,
don't forget the increased need for servers if you are already running
them
at close to capacity. Also remember that the vendor estimates as to the
number of users a given Terminal server can support are probably a bit
optimistic. 

> We run our cadlab, at our High School, completely from Windows 2003
Server
> using Terminal Services. We also run our, High School, Library
computer lab
> using Windows 2003 Server Terminal Services along with other Terminal
> Services labs in our Elementary schools. It works very well and has
saved
> the district a lot of money by not having to buy new computers. We are
able
> to run our labs using as little as 32MB's of RAM. I'd be glad to talk
with
> you about it anytime.
> 
> Regards,
> Jim Hendrie
> Computer Specialist II
> Phoenix Talent School District # 4
> Phoenix, Oregon 97535
> 
> 
> On 5/1/07 7:27 AM, "Randy Cummings" <Randy at paes.com> wrote:
> 
>> Who out in MACEP land has some fairy deep experience with Terminal
>> Servers? I'd like to talk to you.
>> 
>> Has anybody heard of a school (or business) running 120 computers
>> solely on a terminal server running Windows 2003?
>> 
>> 
>> Randy Cummings
>> Technology Coordinator
>> Portland Adventist Elementary School
>> 
>> Tell me and I forget.
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