Minutes of the Arts Computing Office Department meeting held June 26th 2014

Present: D. Keenan, K. McGowan, S. Paterson, N. Bromley, T. Marshall-Taylor, J. Bolender, C. Bechard, H. Balagtas

Co-ops: D. Trachsel, J. Hoek, A. Chen

Dawn

  • staffing Update:  Barb will be returning as administrator in Arts Computing Office in July, Josh’s last day will be July 7th
  • it has been determined that LockDown software is not supportable by ACO during exams, alternatives will be looked at
  • Bob Park has received a new appointment, but will continue as Dean of Computing for the next few years

Keith

  • Vector Works license has been installed on the Mac server, experiencing incapability issues
  • Artsfile clean-up is in progress
  • created new Deploy Studio boot
  • Arts Student Union has approved the purchase of a printer in the Arts Lecture Hall foyer

Herbert

  • CS6 has been installed for Ivan J. in Fine Arts, he has reported slow log in times, Herbert will look into this further
  • provided assistance to Heidi C. during a vendor promo
  • Jennifer S. reported malware on her computer, used malware bytes to clean it up
  • attended wireless troubleshooting seminar

Nevil

  • SCCM testing and training in Arts, Nevil will present in July with Scott
  • ACO co-op’s are now able to join pre-staged machines
  • problems are on-going with Dropbox

Scott

  • imaging new computers with Windows 7, having issues with “blue screen”
  • Vanguard software testing – Scott needs feedback from ACO staff
  • second round co-op interviews will commence in July

Todd

  • online meeting today with audio visual equipment vendor Edcom
  • Renison using Modern Languages 109 is going well

Cassie

  • Friday morning seminars have ended for the summer
  • Cassie’s schedule will be changing; Mon-Tues she will be doing co-op work, the rest of the week she will be with ACO
  • SharePoint downtime issues are being addressed

Dylan

  • deployment of computers for the rollover continues
  • working on his ACO project

Alfred

  • Political Science websites and Site Manager Training completed
  • continued ACO SharePoint updates
  • started newsletter article, editing process next week

Jesse

  • pushed out 8 computers for the Rollover
  • working on Helpdesk project
  • finishing newsletter articles

July birthdays: Scott and Barb

No further business discussed.