Waterloo Nexus Advisory Group minutes June 16, 2004

Present

Department Advisor name
Arts
Nevil Bromley
Applied Health Science (AHS)
Lowell Williamson (secretary)
Computer Science
Steve Nickerson
Environmental Studies (ES)
Shawn Morgan
Science
Stephen Sempson
Information System and Technology (IST)
Ray White
  Tim Farrell
Engineering Computing
Bruce Campbell (chair)
  Erick Engelke
  Stephen Carr

Login data / stats

  • First time that dat has been collected since the move to Nexus (Active Directory)
  • 7MB of data was extracted from over 1300 OUs in the AD
  • Question arises, how fair is the sharing of labs?
    • Engineering now running a Terminal Server (engterm)
    • External account logins account for ~5% of total logins
    • ES is restricting access via what courses are being taken
    • Acquisition of stats is difficult (Erick)

Engineering Science Quest (ESQ) software installs

  • OU priviledges given in order to install software
  • Some applications require Administrative priviledges, mostly legacy software
  • Arts Computing Experience (ACE) has worked with Polaris/Nexus in the past without concerns

Organizing of workstations

  • Location of workstations is important, should be standardized across faculties
    • Postal Code field to be used for this purpose
    • Format to be building code room# e.g. BMH 2222
    • To be completed at the OU level

Other business

  • For the redeployment/Fixing of software Ray suggests creating a similar GPO and placing above the other GPO in the properties of an OU
  • Performance issues are a concern with regard to Network Drives and SAV 8.1, Tim