Minutes of the Arts Computing Department meeting held on July 12, 2018
Present: R. Park, K. McGowan, H. Balagtas, S. Speers, N. Bromley, J. Schildroth, G. Parks, T. Marshall-Taylor, W. Lewis
Co-ops: C. Persaud, E. Hem, J. Rogobete
Regrets: S. Hartung, S. Paterson, M. Byerley, C. Wallace, B. Baer (on secondment)
Attendees:
- Keith
- Finally received all the necessary accounts and permissions to start ordering systems
- First rollover systems ordered
- ECON server ordered
- Video extenders
- Preparing for the removal of TLS 1.0
- Working group to look at guest WiFi access
- New Arts First Faculty members
- Emily
- Working on Scinage widgets
- Updating K-Lite Powershell script to display the version number
- Helped connect laptop to projector in HH 373
- Jessica
- Helped Ana Ferrer and Randy Harris with Outlook problems
- Looked into setting up printers for Sherri Anne Aresenault
- Helped Mavis remotely access her iMac one last time
- Made updates to CALMS script
- Cynthia
- Media Relations was able to get my smartsheet account fixed because it wouldn't let me save changes made in the Expertise Database after my thirty day free trial ended.
- All Newsletter articles have been edited
- All featured images for the ACO Newsletter have been created with GIMP
- Emailed the "How to use Scinage" document to Troy from Science Computing because they currently do not have any documentation on using Scinage.
- Herbert
- CALMS rollover import - error with new form changes
- Francisco Gonzales (ECON) skipping rollover this year would like to purchase laptop dock and monitor instead
- OFAS - meeting Oliver this coming Friday
- If faculty grant- we will order machine for that faculty member- send to Keith
- Sean
- ECH Mac lab updates; Unity and Processing with 4 libraries deployed. Adobe CC 2018 packaged and will be deployed after Aug 2. Mac Pros in lab OS will be updated to supported versions at end of term as well.
- traduire.uwaterloo.ca 18.04 server created for a French research project. First 18.04 production server.
- Firefox, Chrome, Thunderbird and dropbox updated for Macs
- enilsen setup with spare in PAS; taking over for lwarley while lwarley is on sabatical. lwarley's iMac will be stored.
- Sent instructions to acohelp for getting Outlook on Windows 7 clients to use TLS 1.1/1.2 since mailservices disabled TLS 1.0 and connect likely will in the future.
- Any machine that requires windows needs to be upgraded to Windows 10
- Nevil
- 1803 upgrade should now be working
- Enabled Offline files for laptop security group
- Scott has packaged up TaxPrep versions and passed along to Mike Cocker for podium machines
- Implementing Sean's instructions for Windows 7 to use TLS 1.1/1.2 today
- Jameson (away, Nevil on behalf)
- Has acquired most requested equipment needed for Skype
- Greg
- Had a meeting with Psychology to go over various virtual desktop options. They were looking at leveraging what was available in IST. Wasn't a good fit for them due to the video requirements.
- Converted mailbox slschair@uwaterloo.ca from a single mailbox to a mailbox controlled via security group. Group is arts-mbx-slschair. I initially thought it was a shared mailbox.
- Did some support for SAF, they were less friendly then expected.
- Todd
- Lab staff away
- Camera request
- Bookings for ML 109 Murielle Landry
- Will be checking out laptops to ensure they’re working
- Will
- Starting to test Microsoft Teams, part of Office 365, includes chat, document sharing. Similar functionality to Skype for Business, SharePoint, Mattermost.
- Training is TBD, possibly using a cloud as an organizational system?
- New SAS licenses are now available.