Minutes of the Arts Computing Office Department Meeting Held May 8th, 2014

Present: D. Keenan, K. McGowan, J. Bolender, S. Paterson, S. Speers, R. Park, N. Bromley, C. Bechard, H. Balagatas

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

Dawn

  • Dawn attended The Ontario Universities Computing Conference, “customer relations” was discussed and how support staff work with people they are providing services to
  • a future classroom scenario was tested at Queen’s University
  • ACO’s Professional Development meeting will be held on May 13th, Basic Principles will be discussed
  • a new ticket queue will be created for The School of Accountancy

Bob

  • Bob would like ACO to set up a web cam to record progress on the upcoming Hagey Hall Atrium project

Sean

  • Chrome, Flash and Firefox have been updated for Macs
  • created a WordPress site for a group in the History department
  • repaired the Dean’s Office loaner laptop, it was stuck in a start-up loop

Nevil

  • updated common applications for the Psychology department
  • continued the Renison migration off of Artsfile

Scott

  • introduction of new co-op students, Alfred, Jesse and Dylan
  • re-packaged Video LAN Client player to remove initial prompts for updates/privacy
  • imaged three new systems for St. Paul’s
  • had a request from The School of Accountancy for a secure browser for use with exams, will require administration privileges
  • some systems do not have the binary digits service installed and Windows updates are failing
  • a reminder that off-campus/home users are to download Office from Microsoft’s site.

Herbert

  • worked on a laptop from J. North, fixed the sync on his email
  • installed Windows 8.1 for J. Diamond which was needed to run software
  • R. Atchison is currently getting a lot of failed emails, working on a solution
  • added Jesse as a developer on the ACO Help Form Project.

Keith

  • a Mac server drive has failed and has been replaced
  • some home system issues have arisen; some systems try to connect to the university server from home and fail

Cassie

  • Service Level Agreement, currently working on that for the Arts

Dylan

  • learning Help Desk duties
  • wiping computers according to schedule
  • replacing old spares with newer machines
  • preparing an iMac for deployment

Alfred

  • committee and Project page completed
  • retroactive review of ACO meetings
  • considering overhaul of ACO co-op SharePoint site, due to redundancies

Jesse

  • Learning Help Desk duties
  • Continuing Jordan’s Help Form Project
  • Started Lynda.com course

May Birthdays: Nevil, Colin, Adam    Date TBD

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