Deploy Schematic

Here are a couple of deploy schematics that I created to demonstrate the power of NetRestore...
There are tons of other graphics out there that do the same, but here's my version:

Warning: The content on this post was written while Richard Phung, the Labs & Classrooms Coordinator, held the title of Computer Lab Technician at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University.... the content expressed here is out of date, at best.

BEFORE NetRestore:

AFTER NetRestore:

We do this practice to this very day.

Thinking out-loud....

Here are a few possible desktop profile scenarios that I was pitching the my supervisor at the time... about how to handle personal desktop and files.
*go figure we'd head to universal logins.

Warning: The content on this post was written while Richard Phung, the Labs & Classrooms Coordinator, held the title of Computer Lab Technician at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University.... the content expressed here is out of date, at best.

At any rate... here are some of the configurations for local vs. roaming profiles.

Directory System-Conventional

Directory System - Contemporary

Directory System De-Centralized with Dept. 

Directory System Centralized with Dept.

Directory System-Centralized for Specific Course

Directory System-Decentralized with Network Share Support

AIB Office Redesigns

Here was my office re-design...
Our existing office was too wasteful in terms of floor space, so we put together a design that would suit everyone's needs:

Warning: The content on this post was written while Richard Phung, the Labs & Classrooms Coordinator, held the title of Computer Lab Technician at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University.... the content expressed here is out of date, at best.

601N Office:

700B Office:

Office redesign (final):

Reservation Systems...

At some point in 2008, I had proposed that we integrate a number of reservation databases for equipment, rooms, and calendaring into a single database... of course, that never happened. *sigh.

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Before integration:

Proposed integration:

Fat chance that'll ever happen!

Pay-for-Print Preliminary Tests

I drafted these diagrams to explain how some of the new pay-for-print systems would operate in our print environment...
I'm not going to get into explanations now, but here are the highlights:

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Before pay-for-print

PaperCut

I ended up using the schematics above to configure the pay-for-print systems that went into place in Fall 2009.