Present
| Department | Advisor name |
|---|---|
| Applied Health Science (AHS) | Lowell Williamson (Chair) |
| Arts | Nevil Bromley |
| Engineering Computing | Daniel Delattre |
| Hon Tam | |
| Ray White | |
| Information Systems and Technology (IST) | Tim Farrell (Secretary) |
| Math | Naji Alamrony |
| Gordon Boerke | |
| Science | Steph Sempson |
Regrets
| Department | Advisor name |
|---|---|
| Computer Science | Steve Nickerson |
| Engineering Computing | Erick Engelke |
| Faculty of Environment | Bernie Rutter |
| IST | Steve Carr |
| Math | Jim Johnston |
Agenda (PDF) items this month
Software update (Daniel)
- Daniel announced he will include in Nexus Common Services the tool that can prioritize Windows services such as indexing and Windows Desktop Search
- Nexus Common Emergencies client has been deployed to Engineering Nexus and ADS and will now be distributed to all Nexus workstation.
- Just received new OnBase .msi and will be repackaging. Daniel will also make a standalone version for Math.
- There are a couple of new programs, WritenCite and Ebrary Reader Active X that will be part of Nexus Common Apps.
- Upgrades for next term will be Matlab 2008B, the next version of SPSS and for the Nexus Common Apps the latest Firefox.
Vista
- Lowell asked how many people are using Vista and how much Vista development are people doing?
- AHS has converted all their public labs to Vista.
- Hon reported he has been working on Server 2008 in Nexustest domain.
- Engineering Computing will be converting a lab to Vista
- Others reported that they have some workstations/laptops with Vista
- Lowell will add a Vista section to the Nexus Wiki
- There was a query whether the move to Vista would require a domain name change as was done in previous OS upgrades. (Watstar ran DOS, Polaris ran Windows '95) Consensus was there was not enough change in the network infrastructure to warrant a name change.
- A problem was reported with printer driver updates that regular users cannot authorize these changes.
- There was a question about how many Vista clients there are in ADS? (Post meeting content: Answer 105)
USB media alert
- Erick wrote a program that will check for attached USB devices when users log off so that they do not forget their memory sticks and other USB items. If media is found an alarm will played through the pc speaker for ten seconds.
- It was suggested that this alert not be enforced on staff/faculty machines since these clients routinely leave USB media attached on their private machines. Perhaps the program not run on machines with the "Office" setting.
Report to UCIST
- Lowell will be giving the annual WNAG report to UCIST on December 19, 2008.
- He will make the report available to WNAG for comments prior to the UCIST presentation.
Engineering update
- Vista on laptops
- looking at server driver issues, some drivers such as ones for raid have to be manually added
- Samba is working well
- Daniel's documentation site
- Hon will be migrating Nexus DCs in Math and Arts
- Hon asked everyone to ensure Symantec clients (workstations) are all at current level patch 10.1.6
IST update
- Endpoint project is currently attending three vendor demos, Symantec, TrendMicro and Sophos.
AHS update
- Vista in labs is going well
- Lowell gave a brief overview of their remote application server
- AHS will be migrating student email to MailServices in early December.
Math update
- planning to upgrade 45 workstation to Vista
- reported a problem with Broadcom network card in Dell servers. Suggestion was to install Intel network adapter.
myWaterloo
- Welcome to myWaterloo multiple names are confusing.
- It was suggested a survey be done to see what our users know this by. Lowell will contact Office of Research to see how to proceed.
Next meeting scheduled for December 17th, 2008.
