[itdiscuss] Question about big picture of IT at churches

[Darin Rohatinsky]

This might sound just absurd to some of you, but this is where we're at.
 Currently at our church, we have one primary domain controller.  We use
active directory mainly for file sharing and permissions (and the
convenience of people being able to log on at different workstations).  We
use Google Apps for email (got rid of Exchange).  We probably have roughly
10 Macs, 30 Windows workstations, and 20 or so Windows laptops.  There are
about 10 network printers as well.
I'm going to be working back in the secular world full time again, and
there's one other part time IT person who is here sometimes, but mainly I'm
running things.  The other person wants to install Deep
Freeze<http://www.faronics.com/html/Deepfreeze.asp>in hopes that we
can automate our IT infrastructure here when I'm gone.  I
don't think that's really possible or smart, because things go wrong, people
need software, etc...  What are your thoughts on this?  Do you think there
is a strong argument for needing someone to run things in IT?  Or do you
think his proposal of automating IT is realistic???

Darin

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IT Department
Living Hope Church
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