Miami-Dade County Public Schools Argentina Delegation August 6, 2012 Miami-Dade County Public Schools

Portal Infrastructure and Build

Overview Active Directory Environment Historically decentralized AD environment Portal project coincided with AD migration project DMZ forest was created for student and parent accounts Initially intended for web applications only 3

Initial Infrastructure Build Environment architecture and design Security architecture and certificates Hardware sizing and implementation Active Directory Schema modifications Database architecture and build Data Warehouse interface and data positioning Development and Integration environments Active Directory provisioning and replication

Hardware 5

Replication Topology 6

Account Creation and Management Dynamic Provisioning into AD Guardians identified with a PIN and questions about the student Guardians linked to student as an attribute of the AD user object Password self-reset M-Tech’s P-Synch software used Users register challenge Q&A for self reset 7

Single Sign-On Single sign-on technology used for transparent access to resources An overlaying system of session tickets allow uses to login once and access disparate applications 8

Storage and Backup Backup Strategy 20 TB fiber channel SAN space allocated 20 TB lower cost FATA drives allocated as a staging area Staging area is backed up nightly to a tape library Selected collaboration sites are kept on different retention schedules 9

Resources to Maintain 2 System Administrators – handle all updating to environments 2 Exchange Specialists (Part time) 1 Database Administrator (Part time) 3 .Net Developers 1 Network Analyst (Part time)

Cost to Implement Total Cost to Implement Portal - $3.5 million

As you can see there are strategies in place to take advantage of BYOD that will provide access to technology and digital resources.