Saturday, January 9, 2016

Access Restored! Scheduled Outage come to an End! #ectoupdate

Thank you for your patience! Major Internet/network services have been restored.

Should you become aware of any critical systems that are inaccessible, please do not hesitate to make contact. For example, the online professional learning server used to house Assessment Training at https://ecpro.ecisd.net is temporarily offline, but will be brought back online on Monday.More work is needed to transition all systems to the new location but this was the major shift, involving coordination of multiple internal and external partners and resources.

HISTORIC!
Today is quite historic for the ECISD, as it overcomes the most significant of the Top 10 Technology Priorities. Special thanks to the visionary leadership of Admin Council members--including Mr. Toscano, Mr. Selby, Ms. Hertz--for their recognizing this District need and working aggressively to address it! I would also like to express my sincere appreciation to the ECISD School Board for their support of this project, putting in place critical infrastructure for the ECISD's future growth.

THANK YOU!
Many ECISD staff worked to make this outage short and the transition of expensive network infrastructure equipment successful. Please allow me a moment to thank them and I encourage you to also connect with them to express your appreciation. 

I would like to extend my thanks to all who did the hard work of moving and working early and late, including East Central ISD's Richard Rapstine and equipment relocation crew, Virgil Kirk, Calvin Orsak, Mike Shedrock, as well as external support from Tom Grove (ESC-20), Computer Solutions staff (Art, Vanessa), and electrical contractors. Special kudos to Calvin Orsak and Mike Shedrock for working late on Friday night (10:00pm!), as well as starting up at 6:00am on Saturday with Computer Solutions, to ensure the District was up and working by 3:30pm today. Without Calvin and Mike S. working until 10:00pm on Friday night, the District may well have remained down until 7:00pm Saturday.

With appreciation,

Miguel Guhlin
Director, Technology Operations
East Central ISD


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