The district serves more than 30,000 users in 63 buildings. A range of Microsoft tools support the temporary co-existence that the district needs for both messaging and collaboration between Exchange and GroupWise users. For Shawnee Mission, the solution to that challenge is migrating its email and collaboration services to Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. To gain the maximum benefits of homogeneity, streamlined management and enhanced productivity, Kevin Freeman, Supervisor of Technical Support, decided to migrate both to Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Exchange 2000. That is a top priority for them, and is therefore a top priority for us.
Technology is an important component of every part of the curriculum here.
This helps extend access to calendars, email and other critical information to anytime, anywhere. Before the district could migrate to Exchange 2000, it needed to prepare the infrastructure with a migration from Netware to Windows 2000. It was pretty gutsy for us to make a big commitment to Microsoft technology. Freeman and his colleagues created a new Windows 2000 server at the Indian Creek technology headquarters, promoted it to a domain controller, then established a trust relationship between the new Windows 2000 domain and the existing domain. Windows 2000 provided these users with networking resources, print resources, shares, Exchange 5.5 email accounts, collaboration support, all Microsoft Office 2000 applications and support for the Novell Internet client.