Tuesday and Wednesday

Tuesday - Worked on several issues at the co-op. Spent much of the day talking with DIS and Bradley regarding their CIV troubles. Also fielded calls from several schools for technical assistance. I modified the configuration of the ISA server and will continue to tweak things, trying to get the most out of our Internet connection, firewalling, etc.

Started reviewing video regarding an issue at the co-op. This continued to Wednesday.

Wednesday - I spent much of the day handling two main issues at the office: parking lights and electronic surveillence. Both of these tasks invloved the security camera system we have to a certain extent. The parking lights have been an issue since we moved into the new building. Turns out the timing mechanism was not set properly at the manufacturer. Once I figured out just where the "current, real time" should be set on the thing, I moved to making sure th elights came on and went off at the specified time. Before I could do that, however, I used the security tapes to review previous nights' recordings of when the lights turned off. The lights were set to come on during the latter part of daylight hours, so the camera did not really pick that up. But, at night, one can clearly see when the parking lights go out for the night.

The other part of my main duties on Wednesday centered around video review of certain areas of the building. I am not going to discuss what areas nor the nature of the review, but let me say that going through WEEKS of video, even within a confined time period during each day, is a time-consuming endeavor. I am now adding "video security inspector" to my list of "other duties as assigned."

I also served as liasion between DIS and Bradley regarding their video system issues.

Of course, there were mundane, ordinary issues to take care of, including the hard drive death in a staffer computer. Nothing like the smell of little blue smoke in the morning... Or something like that.

Friday

Started the day by going to Prescott to swap out the ECH computer there.  I tried simply moving the hard drive from the dead computer to another one, but got the BSOD. Yay me.  Set up the new (temporary) computer - installed printer, Vineland II, etc.

Got to the office around 1030a.  Went to Teacher Center to work on several issues.  The first one was related to Publisher 2007 and copy/paste.  For whatever reason, the clipbook service had been disabled, so I opened the Services.msc and enabled Network DDE and Network DDE DSDM which allowed me to enable Clipbook.  Once Clipbook was started, I modified the "Log On" tab to include "Allow service to interact with desktop."  I then restarted the Clipbook service, closed Publisher then relaunched it.  At that point, I could copy/paste from the clipboard to the Publisher document.

I also worked on a video camera, which turned out to have the settings such that it was looking for an external memory card (the unit has 16GB built-in).  Once I found my way through the menus, I set it to use internal memory and the camera then allowed for 4+ hours of HQ recording. Awesome!

I spent part of Friday working on email notifications for the camera system (security).  That was, er, fun.  After much poking around in the DVR software, our Exchange set-up and in ISA (firewall), I finally got it going...and going, and going and going.  There is no way that I have figured out yet to set a time limit on the emails.  Thus, as long as the cameras are set to record, email goes out everytime something moves on any of the cameras.  My mailbox is going to fill up quick during regular working hours!  But, the advantage is that I will get noticed if people (or anything) is moving around inside the building AFTER hours.  After the Thanksgiving break, I'll work on scheduling... maybe.