Minutes Waterloo Polaris Advisory Group May 15, 2002

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

  1. 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. 2) Nexus Builders Lab
    Come up with a name to put under development of Nexus tools (i.e. maintained by ...)
  3. 3) WNAG
    Name change went to UCIST and got approved. We are still an Advisory Group.
  4. 4) Synchronize
    Updated version available.
  5. 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. 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. 7) Tim - Windows 2000 .Net Conference
    See http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~tim/Palm_Springs.htm
  8. 8) Onboard Network Cards
    ASUSResponder left one. This killed Polaris and Watarts
  9. 9) Polaris End Date
    May 1st 2003
  10. 10) Faculty of ES
    Nexus labs will be rebuild over the summer
  11. 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