Waterloo Nexus Advisory Group minutes September 16 2009

Present

Applied Health Science (AHS):Lowell Williamson

Arts: Nevil Bromley (Secretary)

Computer Science: Stephen Nickerson

Engineering: Ray White

                  Hon Tam

Environment: Bernie Rutter (Chair)

Information System and Technology (IST): Tim Farrell

Science: Steph Sempson

Summer meetings

  • Requested by Lowell for an email update from each faculty if there is no summer meeting

Software updates

  • What software will be updated and when?  Daniel was not present to provide details.
  • A vanguard group of computers was discussed but not implemented

Vista and Windows 7

  • There are some Vista machines in Nexus but most have decided to wait for Windows 7 SP1
  • Science and AHS had some problems with people unable to logon to a Vista machine
    • Science solved the problem by recreating the AD object
    • AHS solved the problem by removing the roaming profile

Application Servers

  • Space may be an issue again with packages getting larger
  • Please cleanup any unused packages
  • Science has upgraded to 1TB disks

End point 11

  • Hon upgraded the Nexus End Point server to 11.0.4202.75
  • Eng, Science, Math and Environment use Engineering’s End Point server
  • AHS and Arts use IST’s Endpoint server
  • Hon suggests disabling and removing all of the extras from Endpoint before deploying

AHS update

  • AHS has moved all of their staff and faculty to connect

Arts update

  • New Network Appliance to replace Arts Nexus Net App and Artsfaculty file server
  • New Fine Arts Lab of Macs in ECH authenticating against Nexus
  • Arts will no longer be supporting Eudora as of December 2009

Computer Science

  • Last minute packages Python, WingIDE and DrScheme

Engineering

  • Hon has packaged Windows 2008 server Enterprise and Standard

Environment

  • Bernie is installing a new Windows 2008 R2 terminal server

Science

  • Science is running low on space on their Network appliance and expect Firefox and the sqlite database associated with it may be making the problem worse