Present
| Department | Advisor name |
|---|---|
| Arts | Nevil Bromley |
| Applied Health Science (AHS) | Lowell Williamson (Chair) |
| Engineering Computing | Erick Engelke |
| Daniel Delattre | |
| Ray White | |
| Hon Tam | |
| Faculty of Environment | Bernie Rutter |
| Information System and Technology (IST) | Tim Farrell (Secretary) |
| Math | Naji Alamrony |
| Science | Steph Sempson |
Regrets
| Department | Advisor name |
|---|---|
| Computer Science | Steve Nickerson |
| IST | Steve Carr |
| Math | Jim Johnston |
| Gordon Boerke |
Agenda (PDF) items this month
Gap deployment (Derek Kirkland IST)
- Onbase client is here to stay and content management system will not be replacing this
- problematic Active X component is being abandoned but there is still a Java component
- the latest Onbase version is more robust with how it uses Java. It won't be so dependant on a specific version of Java
- Daniel confirmed that every Nexus workstation has Java 1.7.
- deployment is scheduled for mid to late April 2009
- Derek solicited testers from the group
- software will be stored on Minarski
Audit (Daniel)
- rewritten entire Audit program, speed improvement
- new version of collecting script
- want to set up a tool that can display what software is on what computer
Arts update
- playing with Hyper V and had space issues
IST update
- upgrades to Firefox 3.0.7, Adobe Flash IE and Plugin 10.0.22.87 and Adobe Reader 9.1
Environment update
- working a lot with Hyper V
- installed System Center Virtual Machine Manager
Engineering computing update
- work being done on ESX and Vista
- there was an issue with a Science machine that was doing a DOS attack
- updating Audit
- upgrades to Common Nexus Applications
- servers experiencing end of term load issues
- Linux and Mac version of Emerg client have been created
AHS update
- GreenIT presentation to UCIST, a green computing sub-committee being struck
Next meeting scheduled for April 15th, 2009.
