Committee meeting - April 4, 2019

Carol Lu
Secretary to the Committee
April 4, 2019

Present: Steven Bourque (Chair), Donald Duff-McCracken, Trevor Bain, Marko Dumancic, Jason Testart, Robyn Landers, David Gawley, Adam Savage, Bill Baer, Ray White, Carol Lu (Secretary)


Regrets: Andrea Chappell, Daryl Dore, Andrew McAlorum, Paul Miskovsky, Greg Smith, Dave Kibble

Agenda

  1. Chair’s remarks [5 min.]
  2. Approval of the minutes of the meetings of Thursday February 21, 2019 [5 min.]
  3. POS Vlans in ONA (Steven Bourque) [10 min.]
  4. Various updates - future discussions [Email, Storage, GIT] (Steven Bourque) [15 min.]
  5. Other Business [10 min.]
  6. Roundtable discussion – all [20 min.]
  7. Next CTSC Meeting
    [Will be held Thursday April 18, 2019 at 1:30 p.m., in EC2 1021.]

Chair’s Remarks (Steven Bourque)

  • Reminder to CTSC members to add topics to the CTSC wiki to outline potential campus-wide IT service improvements

Approval of the minutes of the previous meeting

  • The previous meeting’s minutes were accepted as distributed.

POS Vlans in ONA (Steven Bourque)

  • POS Vlans access permissions are being removed in order to meet PCI compliance and requirements
  • An email will be sent out to the Campus Network Services Committee (CNSC)

Various updates - future discussions [Email, Storage, GIT, etc.] (Steven Bourque)

Email

  • Email audit has been added to the CTSC wiki
    • Will be a future agenda item for CTSC

Storage

  • Continuing investigation of alternative storage providers and Software Defined Storage
    • Business case is a work-in-progress
    • More information to come

GIT

  • Technology Integrated Services (TIS) and Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP) are working together to continue supporting GIT
  • Goal is to improve and stabilize through rebuilds over the next couple of weeks
  • Desired outcome would be an ongoing supported state after fixes are implemented

Wi-Fi update: guest access

  • Web and VPN access has been finalized
    • Testing will take place this afternoon (April 4)
    • Access is available via 'uw-unsecured', access is given for 24 hours
    • An email is sent to individuals requesting access; doesn't have to be a UW email address
  • Looking at a potential pilot program for guest access via ‘eduroam’ provided by Canarie
    • Would work the same way as 'uw-unsecured' guest access
    • Clients would have to configure 802.1x Wi-Fi authentication
    • There would be no change to guest wifi provided during events at this time

Roundtable

Environment (Marko)

  • Started using Grouper after attending the Grouper presentation (PDF)
    • Encountered some issues where a course code number on Grouper did not match with the Registrar's data
    • Finds Grouper to be useful overall 
  • Actively encouraging Windows 10 upgrades within the department
  • Marko will be retired as of July 1
    • Thanks everyone for all the collaboration and partnership over the years
    • Donald Duff-McCracken will be taking over Marko's attendance at CTSC

Environment (Donald)

  • Noticed Macs are making MojaveOS downloads mandatory
    • Older versions of Adobe Creative Suite apps are lagging in performance

AHS (Trevor)

  • Actively encouraging Windows 10 upgrades within the department

Engineering (Ray)

  • Actively encouraging Windows 10 upgrades within the department

Arts (Bill)

  • Windows 10 upgrades are progressing well 
  • Thanks everyone who attended Keith McGowan's retirement party

Library (Adam)

  • Noticed some softwares with lagging performance after Windows 10 upgrade
    • Lag was seen in apps like Microsoft Word and Excel
    • Dell laptop USB-C docking stations would stop working after the upgrade and required a hard reboot

Information Security Services, IST (Jason)

  • Looking to set up a local database on-campus that contains 5 million password hashes
    • WatIAM passwords will be cross-referenced using the database in order to identify breached passwords
    • Could be a potential service offered by IST
  • Databases are currently being set up
    • EPI will be built and tested

Math (Robyn)

  • Also in the process of Windows 10 updates
  • Currently working on cleaning up mail aliases and getting rid of excess mail servers
  • Trying to restore level of redundancy in MC back to the level it was at prior to the MC failover
  • It has been decided that the department server equipment will not be moving due to cost restraints
  • Open house for Climate and Energy Action Plan was hosted last week
    • Members of the University community are encouraged to provide input