Arts Computing Minutes January 29, 2015 | Arts Computing Office

Present: H. Balagtas, N. Bromley, D. Keenan, T. Marshall-Taylor, K. McGowan, R. Park, S. Paterson, S. Speers, L. Tomalty, C. Wallace, B. Yantha,

Coop Students: M.Fletcher, M. Shuttleworth
Absent: M. Smith

Dawn
- space updates: PAS 2081, HH 280
  - PAS 2081 (ACO space)-job has gone to tender
  - HH 280 (Finance Lab) -working with SAF and Plant Operations on final design
    -it is expected to have 55 to 60 work stations
- CTSC updates: infrastructure plans
  - Upgrade to campus vpn
  - replacing the wired network from the routers to the wall ports
  - phone systems-IST wants to see more departments outside of IT to use Lync
  - noted demand for metrics of new version of RT (currently reports not available for RT4)
Bob
- Bob is a member of the Board of Governor's IT committee. Next meeting will be in April. Committee is still at the "information gathering" stage
Barb
- Staff Rollover
  - has begun to work on the Staff Rollover project. Thirty staff members are eligible for new computers; expected installation is the month of April.
Mercedez
- Project and training
Madeline
- Unable to attend due to SEW course.
Matthew
- Term Project/Training
Keith
- Installed uPrint release monitor (removed one touch screen)
- Gfong had a persistent Apple update issue
  - he was getting repeated requests to upgrade
- Updated the Acrobat Pro on PAS Macs
- Last of the Artsfile users moved
  - ready to decommission this server
- Upgraded artsresearch from 10.04 to 12.04 and finally to 14.04. GRUB broke and Apache configs needed mods.
- Mboehrin-fr13 Mac login failure (filevault)
  - user had upgraded to Yosemite
    -had to decrypt the drive
- Perl modules installed on watarts for Psych
- Patched and rebooted artsltsp, cogito, artsstore1.
- Added memory to aco-esxi-1
  - can be used for testing and development
Herbert
- Web Advisory Comm - UWAT.CA url shortener in beta for use in social media
- Working with Paul Cegys in Drama to find a suitable video editing config to spend their funds. (both Barb & Herbert)
- Installed print drivers for Beth Coleman in the English department.
- Ana Ferrer in the economics dept should now have a local privileged account to update STATA
- Setup email for Kayla Mckinnon in economics, she had multiple accounts and was having password prompts every time she used outlook.
- Migrated files from old laptop to new laptop for Ann Marie Rasmussen in GSS
- Discussed the rollover project with the coops.
- Implementing requested features for OFAS
- Worked with Madeline to help a Grad Student who was having a peculiar problem in MS Word. A document that he was working on would always crash MS Word, but it would only happen on a Mac.
Sean
- dean's honour list database updated.
- grad funding planning continues
- ghost linux patches
- flash/chrome updates pushed to Macs
- cas disabled SSLv3, broke ruby-cas authentication on 10.04 (artsvaction, meeting_agenda), ruby complied on 10.04 refused to do tls, fine on 14.04
- built cantus2 server for cantus development and migration
Nevil
- getting the Office 2013 final machines
- cleaning up other failed or hung deployments for machines
- putting together results from a communication questionnaire
Scott
- St Paul's system re-imaged (SCCM couldn't remove flash because it tried to remove a version from artsfaculty days first and was getting hung up)
- Continuing to convert GPO deploymewnts to SCCM (Stata, Shazam)
- AD cleanup
- SCCM - move all grad labs and sessionals to SCCM deployment of Common Apps by this Friday
- SCCM - move all staff to SCCM deployment of Psych Common Apps up[dated with latest version of Flash and Java (Java later today)
Todd
- equipment loans
  - is looking into a procedure to follow to better track and retrieve loaned equipment
Lisa
- Helpdesk vs Service Desk
  - split across campus: use of Helpdesk vs Service desk.
  - Question: what about the use of "Support Desk"?
- normal.dotm issue on Guy Poirier's computer
- Training with Madeline
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