<strong>Your Name:</strong> Tommy Butterfoss<strong></strong>

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2012/05/07

<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> M Θ

<strong>Total hours for week:</strong> 6

<strong>The School:</strong> Canter

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general, Donated computers set up

<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>Most of my time recently has been spent trying to set up the new donated computers. I ended up going through them and manually changing the name, joining the domain, and installing the standard accounts. All seemed to be going well until I went back to make sure they were all ready to be put in classrooms and got an error about the trust relationship between this machine and the domain failing when I tried to log in with an INSTR username/password. This seems to happen randomly and the only way to fix it that I can find is to log in with a local account, dejoin and then rejoin INSTR. However, this is not a permanent solution and the error has cropped up on a computer again after being fixed like this. I have spent a lot of time trying to resolve this because I don't want to put new computers in classrooms and then have them lock teachers out until I get there to dejoin/rejoin the domain. I am pretty sure changing the computer's name while dejoining/rejoining fixes the problem, but it is hard to say for sure because the error doesn't happen on every reboot or log-out- it could still (seemingly) randomly occur again in the future.

There is also the problem of Microsoft Office not being activated- it should do it automatically on the CPS network (and some of the donated computers worked fine) but some refuse to activate, even when I look up the activation number and type it in. A red bar appears across the top of the screen and there is a warning upon opening any Office program- this should go away automatically (eventually) but I am hesitant to give teachers computers with this issue because I think it limits functionality and may only allow a certain number of opens before it insists on being activated. The only potential cause of this I have found through googling is a mismatch between the date on the local computer and the activation server, or the activation server OS being an older version than the local machine. The time on the local machines is correct, and I don't understand how some Windows 7 machines could work while others wouldn't if it is an issue with the OS version.

Fortunately a few of the machines have neither of those issues so I have been able to start putting computers in classrooms. I am also pretty lucky no one told teachers they were going to be getting new computers so at least they aren't expecting them and wondering why it is taking so long.

I also helped Ms. Rodriguez with the same java issue she had a while ago- she reinstalled her OS on her laptop and couldn't access her gradebook again.