Southfield School for Girls based in Kettering required on site consultancy and project implementation over a three phase project.
The main core of the network ran on dated server technologies but this hardware lifespan was extended through additional hard drive capacity and memory upgrades.

Phase one required that the initial group structure for both students and staff was restructured to allow a more efficient method of accessing internal information. Students were assigned to logical groups and then security models were built based on access permissions for these groups. Inital deployment of a dedicated domain controller running Windows 2003 to oversea the network replication was implemented and all user groups benefited from a roaming profile deployment.

Opening up the SIMS (School Information Management System) to allow Staff access to the reporting features for respective year groups aided the school in moving towards a distributed method of communicating student performance to parents by giving Staff greater access to the resources and easing the burden on the adminstrative responsibility inherit in producing this information.

Phase two focussed on optimizing the desktop client profile by preparing a number of new desktop and laptop images that would be deployed using the Windows Remote Installation Service (now Windows Deployment Services). Service Packs were slipstreamed into the build together with global software and custom registry keys - different hardware drivers were also integrated to reduce the amount of images required. These images were then deployed to over 300 desktops and 120 laptops, the result being a standard experience for users across the domain.

Phase three required that legacy hardware, both switching and servers were reviewed and where possible replaced. The benefit of investement aided the school in the implementation of a  multi-Gigabyte backbone of swtiches connected together through 1GB fibre connections to key points around the school.
The new server hardware allowed for greater redundancy of data and higher throughput due to next generation processors and 64bit platform support.