For Schools

Trusted ICT infrastructure for Melbourne schools

Since 2018, ICT Premier has helped primary and secondary schools plan, deploy and manage the ICT infrastructure that keeps classrooms, administration and compliance running — independent consultation backed by genuine enterprise-grade deployment experience.

Infrastructure & Virtualisation
  • HPE ProLiant servers & storage, including HPE SimpliVity and HPE VM Essentials (VME) hyperconverged platforms
  • VMware vSphere design, operation & end-of-life migration planning
  • Hypervisor migration & consolidation — VMware vSphere to Windows Server Hyper-V, using Veeam Backup & Replication as the cross-hypervisor migration mechanism
  • Microsoft Azure infrastructure
Networking & Security
  • HPE Aruba wired & wireless networking (AOS-S, AOS-CX, AirWave)
  • Aruba ClearPass network access control, including cluster migration & hardware refresh planning
  • Fortinet FortiGate firewalls — deployment, security auditing & SAML SSO administration
Identity & Productivity
  • Microsoft Entra ID & on-premises Active Directory, including hybrid identity (Entra Connect)
  • Microsoft 365, including Address Book Policy (ABP) segregation to prevent staff/student email misdirection
  • Intune & SCCM device management
  • Microsoft Copilot enablement & governance for staff and student cohorts
Cyber Security & Threat Monitoring
  • Microsoft Defender & Microsoft Sentinel SIEM deployment & tuning
  • SentinelOne endpoint detection & response
  • Darktrace AI-based network threat detection
  • Log pipeline architecture & management (Graylog, Cribl Stream) to route and filter network, security and identity logs into a SIEM cost-effectively
  • Security posture auditing against firewall, identity and endpoint baselines, with remediation runbooks
Endpoint & Device Management
  • Microsoft Intune MDM — Windows & Android enrolment, compliance policies and app deployment
  • Mosyle Apple device management — iPad & Mac deployment, app curation and classroom restrictions for 1:1 programs
  • Application packaging & deployment (PSADT, Intune Win32)
  • Emergency patch response for actively-exploited vulnerabilities
Backup & Disaster Recovery
  • Veeam Backup & Replication
  • Wasabi cloud storage
Print & Unified Communications
  • PaperCut print management & printers
  • Microsoft Teams Direct Routing (SBC deployment) & SIP trunk integration
Education Systems & Compliance
  • Working familiarity with Synergetic, Schoolbox and Compass
  • Procurement processes and compliance requirements across government, Catholic and independent school systems
  • Sector-aligned cyber security guidance — monitoring & logging, issue/action tracking, and security tooling controls
Why schools choose us
Independent advice. We consult on infrastructure decisions, not just sell hardware — advice built around your budget and enrolment, not a vendor quota.
Education-specific experience. Genuine working familiarity with the systems schools actually run — Synergetic, Schoolbox, Compass — and procurement processes across every education sector.
Enterprise-grade technology. The same HPE, VMware, Microsoft and Fortinet stack used in large enterprise environments, deployed at school scale.
Melbourne-based. Direct access to the engineer who did the work — no offshore ticket queue.

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