Waterloo Nexus Advisory Group minutes May 19 2010

Present

Arts                                                         Nevil Bromley

Computer Science                                      Stephen Nickerson

Engineering                                               Hon Tam

Environment                                              Bernie Rutter

Information System and Technology (IST)      Tim Farrell

Math                                                        Naji Almanrony

Science                                                     Steph Sempson


Nexus and Apex DC update – Hon

DC hardware is here, DNS registered

Nexus and Apex should be 2008 functional mid to end of June


Non-manageable machines – Tim

Tim found that machines that were not manageable remotely had file and printer sharing turned off as part of their image (now fixed)


Windows 7  OS deployment – Steph Sempson

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

Steph is having issues with the Q drive not working for Windows 7 machines


New version of SEP – Tim

Upgraded SEP and the SQL backend


Arts – Nevil

Working on issues with migrating print server to Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 printer deployment

Env – Bernie

Bernie has been working on PXE boot for image deployment

Scott Paterson in Arts and Steph Sempson have it working

Engineering

Hon said Erick has written a new software deployment tool called toque (Still in testing)