Agenda for 'Waterloo Polaris Advisory Group' Wed. June 16 9:30-11:00 MC-1058

NOTE: Items not necessarily listed in order of discussion.

Group Housekeeping Items

  • Group Name
  • Group meeting time, location, and frequency.
  • Group internal and external communication strategy
  • Mandate

Engineering Computing Information

  • Update of Phase II
  • Files Servers
  • Net App
  • CAS
  • Windows 2000

Items Submitted by Arts

  • Is there a proposed schedule for the rollout of the Net App?
  • What is the current status on the Net App and are there any problems?
  • Can/will web space be hosted on the Net App?
  • Does the Net App handle encrypted and clear text passwords?
  • Is there a process in place for updating the \\appfiler\system from the engineering appfiler yet and if not when?
  • Will it be/is it an automatic event and how often?
  • Can the update be forced?
  • Is it identing or just copying and not deleting?
  • Has anyone figured out a way to setup HP Deskjet 600/692 printers with the new system of pdrivers.pol?
  • Will the control panel applets (Screen saver, keyboard, mouse, fonts) work under gui boot or be fixed under pboot?
  • Has anyone else seen _hash files in n:\netscape and figured out why?
  • Will the roaming profile problem of deleted desktop/recent files reappearing from N: be fixed with guiboot?
  • Is there a known/conceived life span for Polaris servers?
  • How often are virus definition files updated, and how would a manual update affect the machine/sysctl?
  • Is there a list of compatible/non-compatible hardware for Polaris?
  • Can driver files be updated without a reinstall?
  • Can some of the install drivers be updated? (eg ATI cards and SMC9432)
  • Is the license server now working and what went wrong?
  • Are there any tools for testing installed software to stop the vdv.386 problem repeating?