Microsoft assists Shaanxi Normal University in comprehensively improving the educational informatization level

Shaanxi Normal University is a key construction university directly under the Ministry of Education and the State's "211 project". It is an important base for the state to train instructors and education management cadres in universities and secondary schools, known as the "cradle of teachers" in northwest China ". Founded in 1944, the school was formerly known as Shaanxi Provincial Normal College. In 1954, it was named Xi'an Normal University. In 1960, it merged with Shaanxi Normal University and established Shaanxi Normal University. In 1978, it was placed directly under the Ministry of Education. Over the past 60 years, under the leadership of Liu zeru, Li Mian, Guo Qi, and other older-generation educators, with the efforts of several generations of teachers and adults, the school has been established in the western region and is oriented to the whole country, it has developed into a comprehensive first-class Normal University with an important influence. It has trained more than 0.13 million graduates of all kinds for the country and formed an excellent school spirit of "virtue, accumulation, inspirational, and dunxing. Currently, the school is targeting 31 provinces, cities, and districts across the country. It is also recruiting graduate students in Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. As the "cradle of teachers" in the famous Western Region, Shaanxi Normal University has attached great importance to the development of IT informatization to promote education in recent years. The construction of digital campus has always been the focus of school leaders, the IT informatization construction of the instructor's professional competence development center must meet the requirements of the overall digital campus design specifications and the overall information construction of the school. At the same time, its functions must meet the needs of the management business and have a strong scalability. In concert with the existing IT architecture of Shaanxi Normal University, the Professional Competence Development Center for instructors adopts Windows Server 2008R2, SQL Server 2008, and OCS 2008, which are used in combination with the construction of the entire school's digital campus, in addition, it comprehensively improves the educational informatization level of the development center and the work efficiency. Business background with the efforts of several generations of teachers and adults, Shaanxi Normal University has developed into a comprehensive first-class Normal University with all important influences based on the western region and facing the whole country, cultivate more than 0.13 million graduates for the country, and form an excellent school spirit of "virtue, accumulation, inspirational, and dunxing. Currently, the school is targeting 31 provinces, cities, and districts across the country. It is also recruiting graduate students in Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. Since the establishment of the campus network in 1996. Shaanxi Normal University has always attached great importance to the construction and development of educational informatization and established digital campuses, currently, the information portal system, one of the achievements of the school's digital campus construction, provides "single-point logon access, application service roaming, and personalized aggregation display" for teachers and students ", it greatly facilitates online communication and online management between teachers and students. Its network teaching system, personnel management system, scientific research management system, and educational administration system are applied. For the newly established Professional Competence Development Center for teachers, IT is necessary to establish a system that can perfectly integrate with the IT architecture of the school to improve office efficiency, and cooperate with and promote the construction of the Digital Campus of the school. Solution: the IT system of the instructor's professional competence development center adopts Microsoft's Windows server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008, and OCS 2007. Because the instructor Competence Development Center is a newly established unit, It lays a solid It foundation at the initial stage of the establishment, which is of great significance to the development after the center. The IT System Establishment Project of the instructor capability development center aims to cooperate with the school's digital campus construction, improve the overall educational informatization level, further enhance the security and stability of the basic platform, and improve the IT system, enable IT systems to serve the development of teaching and teachers' quality more effectively. By purchasing Windows Server 2008 from Microsoft, the Development Center has built an easy-to-manage and secure enterprise network. By deploying SQL Server 2008, it has achieved efficient and secure data management, make better use of internal resources to provide better services for faculty, staff, and students. Implementation results are for the newly established instructor Capacity Development Center. The scale of departments and the education tasks to be undertaken are increasing rapidly. How can we work more effectively, improve the teaching quality and efficiency, and cooperate with the improvement of the education level of the whole school, it is the focus of the development center and school leaders. For Shaanxi Normal University leaders who have long adhered to the "digital campus", it is particularly important to promote the teaching work by improving the information level. "Although our instructor Professional Competence Development Center is newly established, we also need to keep up with the pace of development of the whole school and constantly improve our own capabilities by adopting Microsoft Solutions, we have achieved a perfect connection with the entire school's IT system, and at the very beginning of the establishment, we have laid a solid IT Foundation, which is very advantageous for our rapid growth." Said Zhu Hou, Project Leader of Shaanxi Normal University Teachers' Professional Competence Development Center. • The simple and stable Windows Server 2008 is an important part of IT construction for teachers' professional competence development centers, this is also the overall requirement of Shaanxi Normal University. IT can improve the utilization of existing resources and improve the IT resources service teaching capability. For the IT staff of the Development Center, the familiar and easy-to-use desktop settings provided by Windows Server 2008R2 allow users to quickly familiarize themselves with the system and use the system, improving management efficiency. "Better utilization of existing resources is a consistent idea of the whole school. For our IT staff, IT is critical to ensure that the IT system can play a better role. After applying Windows Server 2008, it is easy to use, simple to operate, and efficient, "He juhou said." The simplification of this operation also saves a lot of manpower costs for the Development Center, maintenance of the company's servers and PCs has become easier and easier. At the same time, a stable system platform has greatly reduced the workload of IT personnel." By using Windows Server 2008, the security and stability of the information system of the Development Center are also improved while efficiency is improved. At the application layer, the identity authentication and permission management module is based on the Microsoft Active Directory AD to ensure the identity recognition and permission control of visitors. On the other hand, the system provides access logs, download logs, and other log monitoring functions to promptly detect abnormal operations on the system and information. At the data layer, all system information, including documents, forms, and schedules, can be stored in relational databases such as SQL Server, therefore, all information can be stored in hot standby mode, database images, online recovery, and other database management methods. Together, these provide powerful information security protection for the system. In addition, through the next-generation Virtual Private Network VPN (SSTP) technology provided by Microsoft, firewall administrators can easily configure policies to allow SSTP traffic to pass through their firewalls. It provides a mechanism to encapsulate PPP data packets in SSL communication of HTTPS, so that PPP supports more secure authentication methods, such as EAP-TLS. • After data management SQL Server 2008 is applied to SQL Server 2008, the professional competence development center of instructors of Shaanxi Normal University manages any data anytime and anywhere. At the same time, the original data is integrated. Cooperate with the school's digital campus construction to establish a data platform based on unified data standards, business data sharing, and unified system technical architecture; it connects to the network teaching system, personnel management system, scientific research management system, and educational administration system of the whole school. SQL Server 2008 provides a wide range of integration services. IT staff in the Development Center can query, search, synchronize, report, and analyze existing data. SQL Server 2008 provides high efficiency and overall cost savings to better manage the data infrastructure and properly develop data applications. At the same time, the feature of easy secondary development provides more convenient development support for the Teachers Professional Competence Development Center of Shaanxi Normal University. It systems can be constantly adjusted based on the development of schools, it provides better information services for teaching. Meanwhile, using the new Surface area DMF to control the service and functions of the activity can reduce the risk of security attacks. In addition, it can reduce the risks caused by known software vulnerabilities and reduce unauthorized user access through strict password policies and access control. It adds a solid barrier to the network security of the Development Center. • OCS2007: in order to better integrate with the school's IT system and improve the communication efficiency, the instructor's Professional Competence Development Center has also configured Office Communicator Server 2007. It enables users to immediately find and communicate with the correct target person from the most commonly used applications. At the same time, Office Communications Server 2007 provides an extensible communication platform suitable for the Organization's existing messaging and telephone service infrastructure and can adapt to changing business needs, it not only saves money and time, but also improves the efficiency and quality of teaching communication. In addition, the feature of easy secondary development is also one of the main reasons for the Development Center to choose the Microsoft OCS system. Through the extended development of OCS page functions, enhance the cooperative communication ability between the development center and other school departments in collaboration, break the barriers of time and space, and reduce the communication costs between people, people and organizations, and between organizations, improve communication efficiency. Improve the communication efficiency of Teachers' Professional Competence Development Centers in the areas of to-do list, news and announcements, Corporate Address Book, text message sending and receiving, Mail sending and receiving, public services, IP-based voice communication, and online perception. upgrade.