Waterloo Nexus Advisory Group minutes October 20, 2004

Present

Department

Advisor name

Arts

Nevil Bromley

Applied Health Sciences (AHS)

Lowell Williamson (secretarychair)

Computer Science

Steve Nickerson

Environmental Studies

Shawn Morgan

ESAG

Peter Routledge

Science

Stephen Sempson (chair)

Information System and Technology (IST)

Ray White

Engineering Computing

Bruce Campbell

 

Erick Engelk

 

Stephen Carr

 

Hon Tam

Guests: Daniel Delattre (AHS)

Security proposal (Erick)

Please reference: Nexus management security proposal

  • 5 Major Points
    • Training
    • GPO Editing (GPMC Tool)
    • Changing Passwords for moving students (PITA)
    • Symantec Administration (mmc on local pc)
    • Faculty Representation
  • Guiding Principles
    • Improvement of security
    • No loss in functionality
    • Image/Perception of constituent
  • Faculty Representation - How to distribute?
    • Agreed upon that 4! to be created
    • Distribution to be 2 for EC (Hon and Erick) and 2 for other faculties either on a rotational basis between faculties or to be assigned
    • The assigned model was noted because of it's stability and consitency, however, the 2 positions were not selected/voted
    • New style!! to be created and tested by members

Icon discussion (Steph)

  • Waiting on design from D. Duff-McCracken
  • General consesus that designs are ok and to move on

WNAG report to UCIST (Steph)

  • Steph inquired re: topics to report on to UCIST & how previous presentations were developed
  • Suggestions:
    • Success of a peer group (Bruce)
    • The success of 'on the edge' security (on the local pc)
    • Flexibilty of NEXUS

Other Business

  • Laptops on NEXUS
    • Have been successful in Science and AHS
    • Need to have user logon while laptop is on the network in order to create a 'cached' copy of the local profile
  • NAV/SAV 9.0.1
    • Has 'trashed' pcs in AHS, need to uninstall old versions before install newest version