A team, made of  IBM consultants and server support personnel as well as BOCES and BPS technical support staff, will spend a week at  School 66, located at Parkside and Tacoma

For the most part, the work will take place behind the scenes, but, at some point during the week, users will not be able to log on to workstations in the labs, libraries, classrooms and offices.  These computers will be reimaged. The hard drive will be erased and a updated set of applications installed. When the team arrives at your school, if you  have – or think have– any documents on a computer, please notify one of the technicians, so the files can be copied.

Once the work is completed:
•  Teachers and students will have a new  screen name and password.
•  There will be no more generic users (ie. user099).
•  There will be a single user name for Macs and PCs
•  You can back up  your files from your PC laptop to the server
•  A teacher's or student's files will be available anywhere in the district

2. Must contain 3 out of 4 of:
    A. Upper Case letters
    B. Lower Case letters
    C. Numbers
    D. Keyboard specail characters ($,%, & and so on)

3. Not allowed:
    mypet         - too short, not complex enough (contains only lower case letters)
    Gafortonshnorton     -     long enough, but only contains upper and lower case letters.
    Scaher1    - this contains a user name and is not allowed

4. Good examples:
    Bxy1xyz
    gonePost@l
    bugs&daffY

Most students (even incoming freshman) should have accounts. If you find some that don't I can create accounts for them. Please provide the following info for any accounts to be created:

firstName, MiddleInitial, lastName, studentID, CurrentAcademicYear (pk-12). If you can put it into an Excel spreadsheet that would be grand.

Student Password Lists

Many of you are asking for a list of student logons and passwords from Active Directory.

Student AD accounts are organized by Cohort, not by school. Therefore there is no way to pull off a list for a particular school.

If you want a list of student logons, you will need to pull off a list of students from eSIS.  If you don't have access to eSIS, contact someone in your building that does, like the school clerk.  Since student AD logons=student number,  you will know the logon.

If the student cannot remember the password, you will have to reset it. There is no way to retrieve passwords, and no record of what was assigned.

In an effort to streamline the creation and maintenance of Active Directory Accounts, Kathryn Hocking is now the single point of contact for all matters involving staff AD accounts.

There now exists a specific email account named  Active Directory  for AD issues including account creation. TIS's will email to that "person" for staff AD registrations. 

Please note:  the following information will be needed to create the log-on:

• Name
• Employee ID number
• Job Title or Description (Teacher, Aide, Principal, etc)

If the problem is not time sensitive  a work order can also be entered in School Dude - The Problem Type would be 'Security/Login' and the Purpose would be 'Active Directory'.  Kim Powell will create a work queue for those tickets so they automatically get routed correctly.

At this point, Bob Swipes is still the contact for Student AD registrations, and of course, the Help Desk can reset passwords for any Active Directory account.