Attendees
Nevil Bromley
Hon Tam
Ray White
Erick Engelke
Bruce Campbell
Tim Farrell
Trevor Bain
Bernie Roehl
- Common software update (Ray)
- Ray only received a request for quick time
- Temporary Profiles and Corrupt profiles (Nevil)
- Nevil has a user logon group policy that syslogs data if this happens and a tool to collect it
- There are 4 instances, corrupted profile, timeout getting profile, nexus and netapp password mismatch, and math fenchel smb passsword mismatch vs nexus and hooke for the profile
- Nevil is going to offer this to Applied Health Science (AHS) and Science as Eng has disabled temp profiles
- Already logged on Nexus but where? (Erick)
- a file is created n:\windows2000\ntsuff which signifies a logged on status
- the file has a binary copy of the IP address where the logon has occured
- a method of displaying where will be worked on by displaying a web page (Arts computer lab availability) and arts station monitor below
- Station monitor (Nevil)
- An arts coop student has created a station monitor web page equiv to watstars stnmon command which parses logs for Polaris and Nexus
- A feature will be added to display who is logged on to a machine behind an htaccess for admin purposes and for figuring out where you are logged on if you cant remember (see above) and the equiv of a whoson command
- Start menu synchronization (Nevil)
- Nevil is working on a Start Menu synchronization method which points at the q drive and determines if the software is installed locally or on the q drive
- This should eliminate the difficulty of different locations for msi files
- Anyone interested please let Nevil know
- Group policy by Arts to save space from Corel and Netscape bad cache location (Nevil)
- Nevil has created two group policys for removing directories from the roaming profile
- Corel removes application data\corel\perfectscript and application data\corel\perfectexpert
- Netscape removes application data\mozilla\users50\default
- OS Liscensing uncertainties
- The MSDN licensing for labs is uncertain
- New machines / stations must have a OS license bought for it
