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Jason Powell
Jason Powell is the Director of Information Technology at Granger Community Church (GCCWired.com) where he, a Sys Admin, and a small team of volunteers manage a network of over 200 computers and 40+ servers. Geeks for Jesus! :-)
Interests: gadgets, computers, auto racing, church, IT, autocrossing, Technology
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Addressing The Consumerization of IT aka GCC's Transition to Macs and Mobility - Part 3
Continuing from Part 1 and Part 2 ... Well, this is really a continuation from part1 since part 2 went in a different direction than I planned :-) To quickly refresh ... Part1 was the proposal I made to my... Continue reading
Posted May 3, 2013 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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Eric,
Funny timing. I've been doing some research on loading win7 onto an air :-)
Hate to give up drive space though to do the bootcamp dual boot.
Commented Apr 16, 2013 on Addressing The Consumerization of IT aka GCC's Transition to Macs and Mobility - Part 2 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
Addressing The Consumerization of IT aka GCC's Transition to Macs and Mobility - Part 2
Continuing from Part 1 ... One of the questions that arose from the Part 1 post was how we arrived at the $2100 figure. It actually ended up being $2300. This amount would cover the purchase of a 15" macbook pro with 4GB ram, 7200rpm 750GB drive, 3yr applecare, and extra power adapter (for hom...
Addressing The Consumerization of IT aka GCC's Transition to Macs and Mobility - Part 2
Posted Apr 15, 2013 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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Towards macs? Not at all! I had one one prior to our transition. What I dislike, and still do, are the mac zealots that treat it as a religion vs a computing platform. Those are the people I want to smack around ... especially anytime I get kernal panics, endless spinning beachballs, etc
Commented Apr 13, 2013 on Addressing The Consumerization of IT aka GCC's Transition to Macs and Mobility - Part 1 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
Addressing The Consumerization of IT aka GCC's Transition to Macs and Mobility - Part 1
Hard to believe it's been 2 years since the below email was written which put into motion perhaps the most significant IT transition at GCC to date. Up to this point, TechOps didn't officially support macs. Sure we'd help the few mac users on staff as best we could, but it was best effort only...
Addressing The Consumerization of IT aka GCC's Transition to Macs and Mobility - Part 1
Hard to believe it's been 2 years since the below email was written which put into motion perhaps the most significant IT transition at GCC to date. Up to this point, TechOps didn't officially support macs. Sure we'd help the... Continue reading
Posted Apr 12, 2013 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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Church IT Network 2013 Schedule = 2 National Events in Feb and Oct
2013 SCHEDULE Unveiled! In efforts to move our big National event from Spring to Fall (get away from Easter and Spring break and unpleasant weather in Northern States) we’re having 2 National events next year! National Spring 2013 event >>... Continue reading
Posted Nov 16, 2012 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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Microsoft's Open License Charity / Non-Profit Retail Price List
[edit 11/17/12 - removed https and link seems to work more reliably] Microsoft has moved their charity / non-profit price list from it's prior location. Took me a little digging, but here's the new URL for those intereted: http://mspartner.microsoft.com/en/us/Pages/Licensing/Downloads/open-license-charity-estimated-retail-price-list.aspx As... Continue reading
Posted Nov 16, 2012 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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Registration OPEN for Fall 2012 Church IT Roundtables!
Unlike our National Spring events where everyone meets in one location, in the fall we do regional events at multiple locations across the country to keep travel costs low as possible. Regional event registration is just $35.00! Where are the... Continue reading
Posted Sep 19, 2012 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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He-Man and an IT All Staff Email
Do most staff simply delete the IT emails you send out? Certainly your emails are important or you'd not be sending them out right? Perhaps you just need to make them a little more entertaining...something people look forward to because... Continue reading
Posted Aug 3, 2012 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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Join The New Church IT Community Platform!
Posted May 9, 2012 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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Apple Quietly Introduces Accidental Damage Coverage: AppleCare+
Posted Mar 8, 2012 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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Surprise IT Volunteer Award for Tom Templin
Posted Mar 1, 2012 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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Church Techies Biggest Loser #7 Signup!
Posted Feb 15, 2012 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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OpenDNS CEO Responds About Free Basic Service Being Axed
This is a continuation from my prior blog post Farewell Free OpenDNS For Businesses (and Churches) Turns out only SOME businesses/orgs have received the same email we did saying the free OpenDNS Basic service is going away March 15th. Apparently... Continue reading
Posted Feb 10, 2012 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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Farewell Free OpenDNS For Businesses (and Churches)
Well, it's been a good run, but we recently got an email from OpenDNS that they are shutting down their free content filtering solution for businesses. They will still offer a free home solution, but a business (or church) will... Continue reading
Posted Feb 8, 2012 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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GCC's Servers & Storage have a new offsite home! Part 2
Posted Feb 7, 2012 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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Google Apps For Nonprofits AGAIN Open to Churches/Ministries
As many of you probably know, in March 2011, Google decided to no longer allow Churches/Ministry/Places of Worship access into their FREE Google For Nonprofits program (see article in Christianity Today). The result was churches/ministries would be required to pay... Continue reading
Posted Feb 6, 2012 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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Registration Open for 2012 National Church IT Roundtable!
Posted Jan 31, 2012 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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GCC's Servers & Storage have a new offsite home! Part 1
This is part 1 of a multi-part series of blog posts about the COLO move we made last Sunday. Part 1 is just the all staff email I sent to our staff about the change. Normally my all staff emails... Continue reading
Posted Jan 28, 2012 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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COLO blog posts are a for sure :)
Commented Jan 18, 2012 on Help Desk Stats For 2011 Part 1 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
Help Desk Stats For 2011 Part 1
I enjoy stats. So when each year ends it's fun to see how our help desk stats have changed vs the prior year. Did we have more or less support requests? What were the variables driving the overall activity each month and the entire year? Were any IT initiatives or improvements reflected in the ...
Already have a new post ready for tomorrow :)
Commented Jan 18, 2012 on My 2012 One Blog Post A Week Goal at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
My 2012 One Blog Post A Week Goal
Well hello there blog! Long time no see. After severe neglect over the past 2 years, I've decided (after much building guilt and prompting from friends/peers) to revive you again from the ashes of despair. My goal is simple: One blog post for you each week. I've even asked a few select friends t...
Help Desk Stats For 2011 Part 1
Posted Jan 17, 2012 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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My 2012 One Blog Post A Week Goal
Well hello there blog! Long time no see. After severe neglect over the past 2 years, I've decided (after much building guilt and prompting from friends/peers) to revive you again from the ashes of despair. My goal is simple: One... Continue reading
Posted Jan 16, 2012 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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REGISTRATION OPEN for our Fall 2011 Regional Roundtables
REGISTRATION OPEN for our Fall 2011 Regional Roundtables: Below are the sites confirmed with possibly 1 more still TBA. You'll not want to miss this opportunity of learning from your fellow Church IT peers! Cost is $35. Go to http://citrt.org... Continue reading
Posted Sep 19, 2011 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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Dell Technology Symposium for Non-Profits in partnership with Joyce Meyer Ministries and the Church IT Roundtable
If you're not signed up for the CITRT enewsletter you missed seeing the below info ... and shame on you for not being signed up already! Since this Dell deal is short notice I'm posting the enewsletter here for your... Continue reading
Posted Jul 5, 2011 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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