Minutes of the Arts Computing Departmental Meeting held on November 13, 2014
Present: H. Balagatas, D. Keenan, T. Marshall Taylor, K. McGowan, R. Park, S. Paterson, S. Speers, C. Wallace, B. Yantha
Coop Students: K. Hornung, C. Lee, K. Bokhari
Absent: L. Tomalty, N. Bromley
- Dawn
- PAS 2081/2082 renovation upate
- ACO staff need to choose their office in the new space and to measure existing furniture
- Campus firewall progress for Arts
- November 25; three major servers
- Review of eligibility in Desktop Rollover Program (include contract staff?)
- PAS 2081/2082 renovation upate
- Bob
- nothing significant to report
- Barb
- nothing significant to report
- Komal
- Working on the code for the website.
- Kelly
- Printing room boards
- newsletter documentation
- Chris
- Computers from Psych
- Project
- databases
- Herbert
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FileVault login issue on Yosemite on Greg Andres imac.
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Helped Joel Blit select a system to purchase with his grant to run Stata
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Robin Atchison having issues accessing agile ship application on her desktop.
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Sylvia Hannigan reported unstable wifi connectivity in their meeting room ML253.
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Assisting coops with their project.
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- Keith
- Meeting with John Jaray & Randy Dauphin about new printer and release monitor.
- Anthro display cabinet wiring completed.
- Share created on artscp for German research group.
- Share created on artscp for Mac printer packages.
- ppocir WordPress site now live.
- Cygnus patching scheduled for this Saturday.
- Artsfileu: critical patch
- Added two FineArts podium Mac Minis to Nexus.
- Reminder to register for WatITis.
- Sean
- - moved artsservices to vlan 600, watarts migrated to artsvc2 and vlan 600, started at 5:30am and took 4 hours to transfer
- - added vlan 600 to aco-esxi-3, can do vlan switch during weekdays and migrate to artsvc2 at end of term, given the length of time for the migrations
- - continuing improvements to the arts grad database after meeting with Xing
- - migrated and updated munki, muniwebadmin to new gosling server, moved into production and one server vlan, SSLv3 had to be re-enabled for older OS X machine (< 10.9)
- - xdm.uwaterloo.ca wordpress install put in place on agora for Experimental digital media program
- - Latest Flash and Chrome update pushed out to Macs
- - To meet with Julie Mulvey to discuss updates to AUO course approval app
- Scott
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Common Apps Updated: ActivePerl, Flash, iTunes, Quicktime, FileZilla, FireFox, Java, Ghostscript, Notepad++, Chrome
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Vanguard Group Common Apps via SCCM from IST: 7-Zip, ActivePerl, Flash Player, Shockwave, Adobe Reader, FileZilla, Firefox, Ghostscript, Google Chrome, GSView, Java, QuickTime, Thunderbird, Writencite
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Vanguard Group coming soon: Ebrary Reader, ExpressView, MathPlayer, Notepad++, TeraTerm, Putty, SSHWin, KLite, VLC Player, Office 2013
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Psych printer changes
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VDI sol'n for TaxPrep and Access (possibly) next Fall.
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Todd
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Lab update
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issue with projector still isn't solved. Still hopeful it can be ready for Winter term
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Colin
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Vbeam
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looking into upgrading three conference rooms with vbeam; beta in one week
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Eudoroam
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user feedback regarding recent email to users regarding improper loggin in: confusing instructions; solution fails because of symantec
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Birthday lunch for Dawn and Lisa: TBD