ACO Meeting Minutes November 13, 2014

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?)
  • 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
    • FileVault login issue on Yosemite on Greg Andres imac.
    • Helped Joel Blit select a system to purchase with his grant to run Stata
    • Robin Atchison having issues accessing agile ship application on her desktop.
    • Sylvia Hannigan reported unstable wifi connectivity in their meeting room ML253.
    • Assisting coops with their project.
  • 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
    • Common Apps Updated: ActivePerl, Flash, iTunes, Quicktime, FileZilla, FireFox, Java, Ghostscript, Notepad++, Chrome
    • 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
    • Vanguard Group coming soon: Ebrary Reader, ExpressView, MathPlayer, Notepad++, TeraTerm, Putty, SSHWin, KLite, VLC Player, Office 2013
    • Psych printer changes
    • VDI sol'n for TaxPrep and Access (possibly) next Fall.
  • Todd
    • Lab update
      • issue with projector still isn't solved. Still hopeful it can be ready for Winter term
  • Colin
    • Vbeam
      • looking into upgrading three conference rooms with vbeam; beta in one week
    • Eudoroam
      • user feedback regarding recent email to users regarding improper loggin in:  confusing instructions; solution fails because of symantec

Birthday lunch for Dawn and Lisa: TBD