IT Tech Recording and Virtual Machines Doug Waterman

Topics Communicating with your office computer VPN Remote Desktop Recording Lectures Virtual Machines **Sneak Peak**

Communicating with your Office Computer VPN Allows you to securely connect to the FVTC network from your home. Staff VPN Access

Communicating with your Office Computer Remote Desktop Allows you to connect to your office computer from any other computer on the FVTC network.

Software for Recording Software Adobe Connect Allows remote users to watch lecture in real time Requires a microphone on the room computer Limited post-delivery editing Camtasia PC $166 Mac $99 Camtasia Does not allow remote users to watch lecture in real time Extensive editing capabilities Requires encoding Allows for multiple audio and video tracks Can record audio on separate device and marry with video in post production. 30-day free trial

Hardware Microphone Olympus ME 51S $39 Digital Voice Recorder (if not recording using the room computer microphone) Olympus WS-331M $125

Demo

Virtualization

Run multiple operating systems on a single computer (Windows, Linux, Windows Server) Run your virtual machine on PC/Mac using only your browser Virtual machine is actually running on FVTC servers, client machine is only for display. Allow students to interact with their machine from anywhere they have broadband access.

Benefits Manageability increased (create one image and clone multiple machines) Allows multiple machines per student (client to server to domain controller) Access from anywhere Once a machine is created, can clone machine for other instructors. Emulates the environment medium and large companies are starting to use.

Caveats Up-front costs are high. First set of Servers and SAN (Storage Area Network) = $120,000 Virtual Technology is evolving rapidly Need someone that REALLY understands how everything works together to make it function.

Demo VM

Sneak Peek Citrix Application Virtualization

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