Waterloo Nexus Advisory Group minutes February 16, 2005

Present

Department Advisor name
Arts
Nevil Bromley
Applied Health Science (AHS)
Lowell Williamson (secretary)
Computer Science
Steve Nickerson
Environmental Studies (ES)
Shawn Morgan
ESAG Peter Routledge
Math Jim Johnson
Science
Steph Sempson
Engineering Computing
Hon Tam
  Ray White
  Erick Engelke

Agenda

Symantec anti-virus issue

  • informed by Information System and Technology (IST), however, no warning from Symantec no need to worry
  • wait for Symantec to initiate a patch/release
  • Ray to slipstream update in package and then release

Mozilla & quota

  • Science experiencing problems with 50MB profile created to the N:\ drive
  • Ray to adjust configuration to copy files to C: drive

ngina

  • Erick to get rid of keyboard function in ngina
  • signing of non-Microsoft DLLs

Active X controls in IE

  • Trusted vs. Non-Trusted websites
  • Some websites will not work ie. mail.yahoo.com
  • Accounting package in Arts will not work with IE (Nevil)
  • Netscape & Mozilla can emulate IE

MS office update

  • Office Updates to happen via SUS, disc might be required

Migration to XP (Erick)

  • IE 7.0 only to work with XP SP2 and above
  • Memory is most important in moving to XP
  • Surplus is not taking anything below PIII 533
  • Ray to deploy new ngina at the end of term