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

2. Portal Infrastructure and Build

3. 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

4. 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

5. Hardware 5

6. Replication Topology 6

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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)

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

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