Waterloo Nexus Advisory Group minutes October 18, 2006

Present

Department Advisor name
Applied Health Science (AHS)
Lowell Williamson
Environmental Studies (ES) Bernie Rutter (Chair, Acting Secretary)
Arts
Scott Paterson for Nevil Bromley
Information System and Technology (IST) Tim Farrell
Science
Steph Sempson
Computer Science
Steve Nickerson
Math Naji Alamrony
Engineering Computing
Daniel Delattre (Secretary)
  Hon Tam
  Ray White
  Erick Engelk

Regrets

IST Steve Carr

Agenda

CITRIX

  • Vista capable and on blade server
  • Free HP Presentation
  • With new OS - need for new hardware
  • Application delivery option?
  • Not very high interest, Engineering users need memory intensive programs

VISTA

  • Meeting with IST went well, no real need to amalgamate Nexus and ADS

Internet explorer 7

  • Released today
  • Available as critical update on November 2
  • Javascript does not work well
  • MasterCAM software does not work at all

WSUS

  • Windows Updates stops working
  • Need to re-register dll's
  • Script available from Daniel's website

Revision to WNAG website

  • Bernie will clean up the website

Univeristy of Waterloo Name Server NS2 - changes

  • From 129.97.128.100 to 129.97.129.10
  • DHCP - authoritative source - created issues in Arts and on Podium machines
  • Machines are getting campus DNS instead of the Nexus domain

AHS - local profile disappears

  • Check GPO's
  • FES has opposite issue: profiles do not get removed
  • Fix: locked file will be unlocked after reboot

Webview

  • Changes approved
  • Ray will make changes