Waterloo Nexus Advisory Group minutes April 20, 2005

Present

Agenda

New Nexus Login Experience (Erick)

For the new term, Nexus will gain a slightly new login appearance, based on the many suggestions and concerns.

• Visibility
  • The Nexus logo will be used in a few more locations to improve visibility.
  • If you use RDP to remotely connect to ecterm2 right now, you will see the new logo appearing on the actual login box. You will also see that the login box is pushed up into the corner to make more room for the login browser.

Support for "-userid"

• The "-userid" signon option to allow signing on without a roaming profile is slated to come out for the beginning of term.

XP operating system

• There was a straw poll to see how many public Nexus stations are still running Windows 2000.
• There are still a few pockets running W2K and efforts will be made to get these upgraded to XP.

Report to UCIST

• Steph made a presentation to UCIST on April 1, 2005.
• The presentation can be found at: April 1, 2005 UCIST Presentation (PPT)

Outlook connector problem in science

• Steph reported a problem with the Bookit/Outlook Connector caused by NAV e-mail scan

Update on SP1 for windows server 2003

• Hon noted that this service pack causes problems with Samba3 and Shawn reported problems with the quota tool and app service. Investigations are on-going.

Environmental studies SUS

• Environment Studies is now pointing to Engineering's SUS servers.

Architecture printing

• Architecture is moving to the same printing process as Environmental Studies.
• They will use PAS (Print Accounting Software) by Equitrax interfaced with XAS.

Future items

• With the impending move of Daniel Delattre from AHS to Engineering Computing WNAG need to select a replacement Nexus Domain administrator.