Minutes Waterloo Polaris Advisory Group December 19, 2001

Attendees:

Hon Tam Engineering Computing Jim Johnston MFCF
Ray White Information System and Technology (IST) Nevil Bromley Arts (Chair)
Erick Engelke Engineering Computing Daniel Delattre Applied Health Science (AHS) (Secretary)
Scott Paterson Science Bruce Campbell Engineering Computing
Tim Farell IST  

Regrets:

Trevor Bain Environmental Studies Bernie ESAG Representative

1) Printing naming convention
Faculty_Department_Printername (i.e. eng_civil_deanprinter)

2) Password issue with Math
Password system up and running before end of term
Fenchel will still have its own samba password file until at least the end of winter term

3) ES-Nexus
Added 2 member servers, no roaming profiles
Math will add member servers too next term

4) Clipper - NAV upgrade
Hon will update NAV on clipper to 7.6

5) Scratch
Update for Renison, leave Environment Studies (ES) as is

6) Accounts
We should move to only 2 !!accounts per faculty
Use MMC instead of Terminal Services

7) Other items

  • All 129.97 ips will be added to the routing on the FreeBSD servers
  • IE fix past SP2 is recommended
  • SP for Office XP is out
  • Visit Waterloo`s Nexus e-mail system for system related information


Created by: delattre@uwaterloo.ca 2001/12/19
Revised by: delattre@uwaterloo.ca 2002/01/03