baramundi Success Stories
Vocational School 1, Bebo-Wager School, Augsburg
Education
Vocational School 1, Bebo-Wager School
The Bebo-Wager School, a vocational school for the trades, was founded in the 1960s in the Hochfeld district of Augsburg. Since then, the school has been a hub for apprentices in the metalworking field. More than 2,000 students attend classes in mechatronics, machining, automotive and aerospace engineering, as well as drafting, plumbing, heating, and air conditioning technology. They are supported by 60 teachers and three administrative staff members in the school office under the leadership of Headmaster Karlinger and his permanent deputy, Director of Studies Ms. Ungar.
“The school’s educational network is operated through a domain with three terminal servers. All employees and our nearly 2,000 students are assigned their own user accounts. These accounts allow users to access either a computer or a terminal server equipped with the necessary software. The rights of the various clients and users are controlled via an Active Directory server and appropriately configured group policies,” explains Manfred Buchhard.
“Since we’re a school, we naturally have to regulate Internet access, filter content, and block malware. That’s why we also run a proxy server with a filter configured for this purpose. Communication takes place via Microsoft 365 and Teams. Here, too, all users have an account managed by the school,” adds Andreas Geiger.
More than 450 local clients and an additional 50 mobile devices (laptops) are managed by a two-person IT team consisting of Senior Teacher Manfred Buchhard, a member of the school administration, and Senior Teacher Andreas Geiger. Consequently, only eight credit hours per week are allocated for the entire system administration.
A comprehensive solution instead of a multitude of partners
The vocational school faced the challenge of deploying software updates and upgrades to the relevant end devices at rapid, successive intervals. The previous method—cloning the computers and then using a hard-drive lock to prevent users from making changes—was becoming increasingly time-consuming.
To make matters worse, the necessary programs increasingly required individualized handling and implementation. Specialized software from various professional fields—such as Autodesk Inventor and AutoCAD, MTS, Stakis, Yenka, Digital Twin, BoschEsitronic, and the use of learning platforms—pushed this system to its limits. “Our goal here was to shorten IT response times.”
“We also considered doing away with terminal servers in the medium term as a way to address the trend toward performance-intensive software. That was ultimately the deciding factor in our decision to look for a better solution.” “Unfortunately, we were unable to adequately overcome these challenges with our existing partners, such as Microsoft with inTune.
Fully meeting all these requirements in this setup would have been cumbersome and would have required a multitude of different individual solutions.
Accordingly, we solicited various proposals. With baramundi and the system integrator BAGHUS, we found partners who excel with extremely fast response times and always have answers to our specific problems.”
The Right Product for Every Need
“The baramundi Management Suite has provided us with a tool that fully meets our needs. It has fulfilled all our requirements for administration, inventory management, and modern endpoint management within our IT environment.
“With over 600 network-enabled devices—such as computers, laptops, projectors, interactive whiteboards, robots, and PLCs—we have tasks like rollouts and updates to perform almost every day. Now, with the help of baramundi’s powerful Management Suite, we can deploy our application software so quickly that installing our resource-intensive programs back onto the local clients is no longer a problem. In the medium term, we will therefore be able to do without our terminal servers.”
"Since the implementation, we have consistently received friendly, knowledgeable, and extremely prompt support from baramundi and BAGHUS. All of our contacts have impressed us with their expertise and understanding and have since stood by our side, offering both advice and practical assistance to help us overcome the challenges of our complex system:
Overall, we are very glad we took this step."
