The Waterloo Nexus Advisory Group minutes December 8, 2004

Present

Department

Advisor name

Arts

Nevil Bromley

Applied Health Sciences (AHS)

Lowell Williamson (secretary chair)

Computer Science Steve Nickerson

Environmental Studies

Shawn Morgan

ESAG Peter Routledge

Science

Stephen Sempson (chair)

Information System and Technology

Ray White

Engineering Computing

Bruce Campbell

  Erick Engelk
 

Stephen Carr

 

Hon Tam

SP2 Issues

  • AHS issues with popups specifically yahoo mail & myhrinfo sites
  • Science issues with downloading on workstations
    • SP2 installed manually and then have SUS server verify

Cerberus

  • Watches the filespace and can tell you (email) when things have changed
  • To incorporate a backup
    • Only files owned by the user
    • To keep a week's worth of day saves
    • Encrypted via key
    • Can be saved to the network
    • Will create a zip file of changed files

Other Business

  • Folder Redirection GPO to be changed (Ray)
  • Rebooting PCs on a regular basis, a good idea (Ray)
  • Erick to create a GPO to prompt user to reboot (part of Cerberus)
  • Thunderbird storing cache on N:\ drive to be moved
  • Login scripts required for Eudora, Netscape, Thunderbird to move Application Data away from the profile server
  • cmd files to be moved from Q:\ to C:\