Pleasanton school district moves emails to new system, seeks to recover lost messages, data Schools & Kids, posted by Editor, Pleasanton Weekly Online, on Oct 22, 2012 at 9:59 pm
The Pleasanton school district's email system was down for nearly a week, between Oct. 16 and 22, but the district has moved to the clouds to get a new system up and running.
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Posted by Eleanor, a resident of the Danbury Park neighborhood, on Oct 23, 2012 at 8:34 am
I have three students at one school and didn't receive a call. Now this explains why emails to teacher(s) regarding Halloween and carnival planning have gone unanswered. It would have been extremely helpful to have gotten that phone call.
Posted by Anil N, a resident of the Vintage Hills Elementary School neighborhood, on Oct 23, 2012 at 10:14 am
I have a kid in the elementary school did not receive any call but got an update from the teacher saying they are going to Google mail with there new email cloud service and wanted us to reply if we got the test email.
Posted by Cloud?, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood, on Oct 24, 2012 at 9:13 pm
The district wants to have email in the 'cloud' on Google Mail. Sounds very secure folks. Would any IT director would ever agree to having corporate email run on Gmail? Does PUSD have an IT director or have they left?
Maybe all those boxes of toxic orange goo the district was serving kids as part of meatless monday - the uber healthy chips and cheeze whiz meal - was stored in the server room and the orange goo leaked. The server disk array could not survive its onslaught and all data in its path was destroyed. 'Attack of the Killer Tomatoes' becomes 'Attack of the Toxic Goo.'
Posted by Dear Cloud?, a member of the Foothill High School community, on Oct 25, 2012 at 10:43 am
Many Fortune 500 companies have moved from or are in the process of moving from traditional email servers and costly Blackberry servers to using Google mail. Web Link
BTW - I received 2 sets of calls for 2 children to 2 different phones along with an email from the newsletter editor for each school. We've come to rely on instant email communication, so I'm sure it was a tough week for PUSD. Thanks for the GREAT alternative communication PUSD, Foothill and Hart! And welcome to Google mail!