Day 4

Today was the first day for me of actually working on my project. I am on the Windows 7 team and I started by simply finding our cubicle and seeing what we had. After that I tried to find out what we had to do, but Mike was no around or answering his phone so I called Chris, who is our group leader. He let me know that we still needed to get the 64 bit version of Windows onto one of our computers. After a failed search to find a disc to use I decided to just download my copy of it from MSDNAA. After I got that downloaded and burned I started its install. Two more people from my group showed up about an hour after I left and shortly after that Mike did too and he was able to give us the serials for Windows to use. We also had to update the serial on the 32 bit versions since the ones used were incorrect and would not activate. After that was all done each of us took a computer and started to install some programs for testing. We put on OpenOffice, Firefox, XP Mode, and Office 2007. I also put on SIW on the PC I was on in case it comes in handy. I also made an Excel sheet to track was was being done on that PC and the other two people did the same for theirs. I did a little testing of OpenOffice with the Excel sheet I made and it all worked out. Last thing I was working on was getting all of the updates put onto the PC I was on.

Day Three

Technically due to the power outage this day did not occur, but I did hang around in the ITS area for a while. My first class was cancelled since we could not take our BB test with no power, so I headed to the ITS offices. Once there I was suprised to see that there was no backup lighting and that was because the generator for the building was not working due to bad batteries on it. So that showed me that the school is not very well prepared for a power outage, or that the generators need to be checked more often.

I ended up hanging around downstairs though for about 2 hours anyway just listening to everybody joking around. It was decided that ITS would be blamed for the outage, probably due to the rollout of the new mail server. Eventually the main campus power switch was drawn on a dry erase board and set to off so that there would be no doubt who was indeed at fault.

Day Two

It has been almost a week since I did all of this but my second day was more interesting than the first. I worked with John and we had to take a cart of PC's and go redeploy them around the campus. Our first stop was to go to the VC and near the area where you can rent things like a basketball and the stairs to go to the second area we had to setup the two kiosk PC's there. It took a while to get them back onto the right domain for the school, but eventually both worked. After that we headed back down near the campus server rooms. In the back of the server room area with the tape backups and the huge UPS's, was an office and the owner of that computer was having an issue with viruses and malware. We found that whatever is on it was keeping Sophos from installing so it was decided that that PC would have to be pulled and a loaner given. In another area near the server room we had a computer that was to go back to its owner and we would take the loaner computer from them. We just had to swap the original HDD back into the original computer and take the loaner with us. The last thing we did before I left was to give somebody back their monitor, which was not needed since all the people had dual 24 inch setups, but for the purpose of the Tangent systems on loan they had to be complete.