Minutes Waterloo Polaris Advisory Group May 15, 2002
Attendees:
Department |
Advisor name |
---|---|
Arts |
Nevil Bromley (Chair) |
Applied Health Sciences |
Daniel Delattre (Secretary) |
MFCF |
Jim Johnston |
Science |
Stephen Sempson |
ESAG Representative |
Bernie Roehl |
Information System and Technology (IST) |
Tim Farrell |
Ray White |
|
Engineering Computing |
Hon Tam |
Bruce Campbell |
Regrets:
Erick Engelke Engineering Computing
Agenda
- Webmail
The idea is to setup the following functionality: webmail, vacation message, password change, bookmarks (?), Forward, laserman, ...
Queens University has a package called packman to set home settings for e-mail, etc. See Waterloo's Nexus e-mail system - 2) Nexus Builders Lab
Come up with a name to put under development of Nexus tools (i.e. maintained by ...) - 3) WNAG
Name change went to UCIST and got approved. We are still an Advisory Group. - 4) Synchronize
Updated version available. - 5) Mail Committee
Any comments? Not sure about the mandate. Spam discussion also going on.
See: IST's email site and Bruce's email site - 6) Bruce - mail problem
Script will fix the problem that some accounts whose e-mail address in UWdir is not equal to their actual home-faculty e-mail account.
Reg has a script to populate uwdir. - 7) Tim - Windows 2000 .Net Conference
See http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~tim/Palm_Springs.htm - 8) Onboard Network Cards
ASUSResponder left one. This killed Polaris and Watarts - 9) Polaris End Date
May 1st 2003 - 10) Faculty of ES
Nexus labs will be rebuild over the summer - 11) Nexus AD
No more dead GPO's. ADSIEdit to fix problems.
Quoting Hon:
" The file is found in the server CD (/support/tools/2000rkst.msi).
*** [Note: BEWARN:This program modifies the AD from the fundamental infrastructure level. Once something is deleted, it can not be retrieved again.] *** "
Created by: delattre@uwaterloo.ca 2002/05/17
Revised by: delattre@uwaterloo.ca 2002/06/17