A professional development opportunity offered through the Business Enhancement System Transformation (BEST) Project’s Workforce Transition Team (WTT).

 The BEST Project will replace LACOE’s existing HRS and PeopleSoft Financial systems with one new system from software vendor CGI. The basic goal of the BEST Project is to have an integrated Enterprise Resource Planning System for budget development, finance, human resources, and payroll. Additional strategic goals include ensuring that districts have immediate online access to data and reports, that the system is highly scalable and adaptable to regulatory code changes, and that the system is user-friendly, meeting end-users' needs.

 The new enterprise system requires more Excel usage than previous workplace tools. The ten core Excel functions that should be most useful to financial staff at LACOE were identified by the School Financial Services (SFS) members of the Workforce Transition Team (WTT) and then vetted with the WTT. High level knowledge of Excel will allow the user to fully leverage the new system and better support our districts. All partner districts will be using this system, therefore good Excel skills are critical.

The Technical Assistance and Professional Development (TAPD) Program highlights the importance of IT support and network management for schools and districts. The program provides training to school district technical personnel.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Understand available solutions for identity management and be able to address scenarios with appropriate solutions.
• Deploy and administer AD DS in Windows Server 2012.
• Secure AD DS deployment.
• Monitor, troubleshoot and establish business continuity for AD DS services.
• Implement AD DS sites, configure and manage replication.
• Implement and manage GPOs.
• Manage user settings with GPOs.
• Secure and provision data access using technologies such as Dynamic Access Control, Work Folders and Workplace Join.
• Implement certification authority (CA) hierarchy with AD CS and how to manage CAs.
• Implement certificates.
• Implement and manage AD RMS.
• Implement and administer AD FS.
• Implement Windows Azure Active Directory.
• Implement and administer Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS).

The Technical Assistance and Professional Development (TAPD) Program highlights the importance of IT support and network management for schools and districts. The program provides training to school district technical personnel.​

The Clearpass Essentials instructor led course provides participants with a foundation in Network Access Control using the Clearpass product portfolio.

This 5-day classroom session includes both modules and labs covering major features of the Clearpass portfolio.

Students will learn:

• How to setup Clearpass as a AAA server
• Configure the Policy Manager, Guest, OnGuard and OnBoard feature sets

In addition, the content will cover:

• Integration with external Active Directory servers
• Monitoring and Reporting
• Deployment best practices

This class prepares students for the Aruba Certified Clearpass Professional (ACCP) examination.

Course pre-requisites include familiarity with Network Standards, basic routing & switching knowledge, RADIUS, 802.1X and AAA experience.

The Technical Assistance and Professional Development (TAPD) Program highlights the importance of IT support and network management for schools and districts. The program provides training to school district technical personnel.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

•Compare the services available in the Azure platform.
•Configure and deploy web applications.
•Creating Azure Web Apps from the gallery.
•Deploying and monitoring Azure Web Apps.
•Creating and configuring Azure Virtual Machines.
•Create and manage a storage account.
•Manage blobs and containers in a storage account.
•Create, configure and connect to a SQL Databases instance.
•Identify the implications of importing a SQL standalone database.
•Manage users, groups and subscriptions in an Azure Active Directory instance.
•Create a virtual network.
•Implement a point-to-site network.

The Technical Assistance and Professional Development (TAPD) Program highlights the importance of IT support and network management for schools and districts. The program provides training to school district technical personnel.​
 

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Query and manipulate data with Entity Framework
• Use ASP.NET Web API to create HTTP-based services and consume them from .NET and non-.NET clients
• Extend ASP.NET Web API services using message handlers, model binders, action filters, and media type formatters
• Create SOAP-based services with the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and consume them from .NET clients
• Apply design principles to service contracts and extend WCF services using custom runtime components and behaviors
• Secure WCF services using transport and message security
• Use Windows Azure Service Bus for relayed messaging and brokered messaging using queues and topics
• Host services on on-premises servers, and on various Windows Azure environments, such as Web Roles, Worker Roles, and Web Sites
• Deploy services to both on-premises servers and Windows Azure
• Store and access data in Windows Azure Storage, and configure storage access rights
• Monitor and log services, both on-premises and in Windows Azure
• Implement federated authentication by using ACS with ASP.NET Web API services
• Create scalable, load-balanced services

The Technical Assistance and Professional Development (TAPD) Program highlights the importance of IT support and network management for schools and districts. The program provides training to school district technical personnel.​
 

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Describe Azure architecture components including infrastructure, tools, and portals.
• Implement and manage virtual networking within Azure and to connect to on-premises environments.
• Plan and create Azure virtual machines.
• Configure, manage, and monitor Azure virtual machines to optimize availability and reliability. - Implement, manage, backup and monitor storage solutions.
• Plan and implement data services based on SQL Database to support applications.
• Deploy and configure websites.
• Deploy, configure, monitor, and diagnose cloud services.
• Publish content through CDNs and publish videos by using Media Services.
• Create and manage Azure AD directories, and configure application integration with Azure AD.
• Integrate on-premises Windows AD with Azure AD.
• Automate operations in Azure management by using PowerShell runbooks.

The Technical Assistance and Professional Development (TAPD) Program highlights the importance of IT support and network management for schools and districts. The program provides training to school district technical personnel.​
 

Cisco All-Access provides students with the most current and comprehensive learning environment with a full year of unlimited access to every Cisco course we offer. This includes more than 60 core and advance technology classes, for skills training and certification preparation.

The Value of All-Access:  In addition to the unlimited access to all Cisco courses, students will also have unlimited access to: 

• Valuable live rack time and 100+ hours of lab content for high-quality, practical exercises that cover exam topics
• On-demand versions of all the classes
• Printable/searchable student manuals
• Certification practice exams
• Expert mentoring for clarifications and deeper dives into subjects
• Personal Success Coaches to help map training goals
• e-Library - access to thousands of IT-professional books and hundreds of hours of video tutorials

The Technical Assistance and Professional Development (TAPD) Program highlights the importance of IT support and network management for schools and districts. The program provides training to school district technical personnel.​

After completing this course, students will be able to: Describe cloud computing, Azure, and Azure subscriptions. Describe and create Azure Web Apps. Create and configure VMs in Microsoft Azure. Create an Azure virtual network. Describe Azure storage. Describe and deploy databases in Azure. Describe Azure AD.