Waterloo Nexus Advisory Group minutes February 18, 2009

Present

Department Advisor name
Arts Nevil Bromley
AHS Lowell Williamson (Chair)
Computer Science Steve Nickerson
Engineering Computing Erick Engelke
  Daniel Delattre
  Ray White
Faculty of Environment Bernie Rutter
IST Tim Farrell (Secretary)
Science Steph Sempson

Regrets

Department Advisor
Engineering Computing Hon Tam
IST Steve Carr
Math Jim Johnston
  Gordon Boerke
  Naji Alamrony

Agenda (PDF) items this month

Emerge update notification (Nevil)

  • query about getting new versions of Emerge Client especially the user-managed one
  • Engineering Computing will announce when new versions are available

Arts update

  • Scott Patterson and Steph have been packaging Adobe suite CS3 and CS4

IST

  • working on further Exchange rollout and Endpoint project. Hon and Lowell are involved with anti virus project as well.
  • Andrea Chappell, Steve Carr and Tim Farrell of IST will examine using Unix-based kiosk strategy as a possible solution for podiums computers.

Environment

  • students moving to Mailservices

Engineering Computing

  • appshare is getting full
  • working with new version of WPKG for packaging software. It has great logging, is more reliable and is a good candidate for larger applications
  • updating Audit
  • there are thousands of GPOs and many are duplicates. There are 1100 software applications being delivered.

AHS

  • using policy extensions instead of scripts
  • trouble packaging Jack software

Science

  • appservers upgraded with larger disks
  • working of updating Symantec clients to latest patch level.

Next meeting scheduled for March 15th, 2009.