Waterloo Nexus Advisory Group minutes April 21 2010

Present

Arts                                                    Nevil Bromley

Engineering                                          Erick Engelke

                                                         Hon Tam

Environment (ENV)                                Bernie Rutter

Information System and T
echnology (IST)                                   Tim Farrell

Math                                                  Naji Almanrony

Science                                              Steph Sempson

 

Domain Consolidation Presentation (PPT) – Erick Engelke

500 machines will most likely be deployed in admin areas in Fall 2010 on Nexus

8 new DCs have been ordered for Nexus and Apex 2008 Domain Controllers


Hon is investigating new licensing for Terminal servers

Windows 7  OS deployment – Steph Sempson

Steph has set up a server based deployment of Windows 7 OS with a common look and feel

Discovered you must fully qualify paths for MSI software deployement with windows 7

New version of SEP – Hon

Hon said the upgrade of SEP went well

Mac clients can upgrade but cannot deploy

Steph in Science noticed some false positives from SEP

Arts – Nevil

Upgrading to new network appliance between terms

Implemented virtual machines for nexus members servers


Env – Bernie

Bernie has also been working on virtualization

Env will be rebuilding labs for summer term with XP


Math – Naji

Math has replaced attic, their appfiler

Engineering

Hon said Nexus / Engineering will be up during the power outage this weekend

Will be setting up new Dell 710 hardware as 2008 domain controllers for domain consolidation

Erick is investigating using / deploying zfs