Darren Bondy
Secretary to the Committee
April 3, 2017
Present:
Bruce Campbell (Chair), Darren Bondy (Secretary), Trevor Bain, Colin Bell, Steven Bourque, Lawrence Folland, Don Duff-McCracken, Bob Hicks, Dawn Keenan, Robyn Landers, Andrew McAlorum, Paul Miskovsky, Jason Testart
Regrets:
Andrea Chappell, Erick Engelke, Dave Kibble, Carl Nagel
Agenda
- Chair’s remarks [5 min.]
- Approval of the minutes of the meeting of January 19, 2017 [5 min.]
- Governance of generic email account naming (Jason Testart, Paul Miskovsky) [15 min.]
- Other Business [5 min.]
- Roundtable discussion – all [20 min.]
- Next CTSC Meeting
[Will be held Thursday, April 13, 2017, at 1:30 p.m., in EC2 1021.]
Chair’s Remarks
- The Chair welcomed Andrew McAlorum to the committee. He will be succeeding Bob Hicks as the new Director of Client Services.
Approval of the minutes of the previous meeting
The minutes from the previous meeting were accepted as distributed.
Governance of generic email account naming (Jason Testart, Paul Miskovsky)
Members were asked to review the current documentation for generic email accounts and campus domain names and we will bring it back to discuss at the next CTSC meeting.
- If documents need updating, we can form a subgroup to review and update.
Other Business
Apple Device Enrollment program
- Don Duff-McCracken is currently looking into the device enrollment program through Apple; having some difficulty determining if there is already a point of contact on campus for this program.
- Don will continue to pursue this with Apple and will include Sandra Laughlin, Bob Hicks and Bruce Campbell on future correspondence.
Roundtable Reporting
Applied Health Sciences (Trevor Bain)
- SAS came to campus to do seminar for graduate students in AHS.
- They asked if any other departments or groups would interested in having a SAS rep come in to do a presentation.
Technology Integrated Services, IST (Steven Bourque)
- Hearing rumours that their might be another power shut down in the Math and Computer building; nothing confirmed yet.
Client Services, IST (Andrew McAlorum)
- Soft launched the Open portal; allows visitors and prospective students on campus to use the Portal without needing to authenticate.
- Launched 1.0 for UW Scholar on Tuesday, March 28.
Environment (Don Duff-McCracken)
- Met with the sales rep from Parallels; it has an imaging component that we will talk to Steven Bourque about.
Science (Paul Miskovsky)
- Tried contacting WebX regarding payment for account from years ago; no one can use it until we sort out the main account.
- Steven Bourque can reach out to Cisco to straighten this out.
Arts (Dawn Keenan)
- Having some issues in our labs which we upgraded to Windows 10; some start menu items are disappearing.
- Currently fixing them by reimaging the specific systems that are having these problems.
Computer Science (Lawrence Folland)
- Rogers came yesterday to do site survey in the DC building; have not heard the results yet.
Math (Robyn Landers)
- SHARCNET data centre is coming along in the MC building.
- Regarding storage space: Is IST interested in providing a cheaper storage solution with no snapshots or replication of data?
- Something to investigate; still trying to determine the demand for the storage.
- Robyn will speak with Steven Bourque regarding the potential for more basic storage service.
Information and Integration Management (Colin Bell)
- It was recently announced that our group has changed its name from Enterprise Architecture to Information and Integration Management.
- Will have some material to share with this group once we get settled into our new direction.
Next meeting
The next meeting will be held on April 13, 2017 at 1:30pm, in EC2 1021.