Agenda for Waterloo Polaris Advisory Group (WPAG) Wed. February 16, 2000 9:30-11:00 MC-1058

  1. (Nevil) Scratch and Birthday problems.
     
  2. (Nevil) Carl has requested a Windows Scripting host be installed for Polaris.
     
  3. (Nevil) Request for an immediate method of updating a single or all appfilers.
     
  4. (Bruce) Faculty authentication and e-mail servers - Engineering and Applied Health Science (AHS) have moved to Solaris, for both Authentication and e-mail service. Support and development implications for Science and Arts.
     
  5. (Bruce) NetApp Backups - any progress and/or good/bad experience etc.
     
  6. (Bruce) Watstar tape backups - not doing anymore in favour of NFS to netapp backups. Math watstar servers are not backed up at all by EC anymore. Final billing will go out shortly.
     
  7. (Bruce) Sept 1. 2000 deadline for "non account print server" conversions will be it.
     
  8. (Bruce) Netapp home dir move is delayed a few weeks.
     
  9. (Ray) Win95install on Development (soon everywhere) includes Sound Blaster CT4700, CT4750 and CT4810 drivers so install.bat has extra options on the command line. ATIRage was moved up one so the end three questions are CT4700, CT4750 and CT4810. Win95install on Development is up to date excluding the JAN2000 update.
     
  10. (Ray) April 2000 update will be large and include IE5 so I would like to get some testers as soon as I do the IE5 install which will hopefully be before the next WPAG meeting.
     
  11. (Nevil) Will there be a path replacement or addition for j:\utl on the appfiler (Q)
     
  12. (Nevil) Arts will also be moving to Solaris for mail and web services with 2 Sun Ultra 10 machines.