Committee meeting - April 27, 2017

Darren Bondy
Secretary to the Committee
May 9, 2017

Present: 

Bruce Campbell (Chair), Darren Bondy (Secretary), Trevor Bain, Colin Bell, Steven Bourque, Andrea Chappell, Erick Engelke, Lawrence Folland, Don Duff-McCracken, Dawn Keenan, Robyn Landers, Andrew McAlorum, Omar Nafees, Adam Savage, Jason Testart

Regrets:

Dave Kibble, Paul Miskovsky

Agenda

  1. Chair’s remarks [5 min.]
  2. Approval of the minutes of the meeting of April 13, 2017 [5 min.]
  3. Single Sign-on (SSO) technology options (Erick Engelke) [25 min.]
  4. Other Business [5 min.]
  5. Roundtable discussion – all [20 min.]
  6. Next CTSC Meeting

[Will be held Thursday, May 11, 2017, at 1:30 p.m., in EC2 1021.]

Chair’s Remarks

  • The Chair welcomed Adam Savage to the committee. Adam will be the representative from the Library following Carl Nagel’s retirement.

Approval of the minutes of the previous meeting

The minutes from the previous meeting were accepted as distributed.

Single Sign-on technology options (Erick Engelke)

Erick Engelke presented on Single Sign-on technology options. Topics included:

  • Four major goals
  • CAS
  • SAML
  • OpenID Connect
  • Today’s Market
  • Uwaterloo landscape

View the full presentation on Single sign-on technology options (PDF).

Comments and discussion

  • CAS is often difficult to implement with certain applications; many enterprise applications are supporting SAML.
  • It will be impossible to implement a single solution because we need to support multiple protocols.
  • Students want single sign-on for ease of use.
  • Ericke Engelke and Jason Testart will share their research on the topic.

Other Business

  • In-camera items.

Roundtable Reporting

Technology Integrated Services (Steven Bourque)

  • Migration of all undergraduate email to Office 365 is underway; so far things are going well.
  • Reminder that old DNS servers are being turned off May 1.

Client Services, IST (Andrew McAlorum)

  • New ecommerce developer started on Monday; will work between my team and Colin’s team. He will help make our Shopify integration more turnkey.

Arts (Dawn Keenan)

  • No date set but planning on enabling Skype for Business accounts for all graduate students in arts in May.

Applied Health Sciences (Trevor Bain)

  • Renovating the second floor of BMH building; moving servers from one room to another room this weekend.

Library (Adam Savage)

  • Library in process of hiring a systems administrator.
  • Also working on the ongoing renovation project; two network closets will be moving.
  • Will be moving to soft phones pending IST approval; a ticket has been created for this.

Instructional Technologies and Multimedia Services (Andrea Chappell)

  • Course outline project; Science has been writing something for Math to house course outlines (Syllabus).
    • At some point we will be able to see a demo of this tool.
  • A report on the course evaluation project has been sent to Mario Coniglio and the Provost.

Math (Robyn Landers)

  • Latest rumour re: power outage in MC building is that it might happen during Christmas.
  • SHARCNET data centre ribbon cutting will be next Friday.
  • Will likely be close behind Computer Science in joining RT; monitoring how it is going for them thus far.

Environment (Don Duff-McCracken)

  • We will be having a power outage in EV1 in August; do not have many details yet.
  • All of our lab computers are SSD now.
  • Deployment of Mac labs with Parallels has been going well.

Computer Science (Omar Nafees)

  • Transitioned to RT this week; looks good so far.

Next meeting

The next meeting will be held on May 11, 2017 at 1:30pm, in EC2 1021.