Present
| Department | Advisor name |
|---|---|
| Arts | Nevil Bromley |
| Engineering Computing | Ray White (Secretary) |
| Hon Tam | |
| Environmental Studies (ES) | Bernie Rutter |
| Information System and Technology (IST) | Tim Farrell |
| Science | Steph Sempson (Chair) |
Regrets
| Department | Advisor name |
|---|---|
| Applied Health Science (AHS) | Lowell Williamson |
| Computer Science | Steve Nickerson |
| Engineering Computing | Daniel Delattre |
| Erick Engelke | |
| Math | Naji Alamrony |
| IST | Steve Carr |
No Agenda items this month
Meeting discussions
WSUS V3
Hon has updated WSUS to release 3. Many new features have been added but now the administrator is required to do all management from the console.
Multimedia lab woes
The summer shutdown of the MultiMedia lab (CPH 1346) has caused us problems. The firestop addition to the ceiling has gummed up the fans and cooling fins in all the computers and so periodically services will unexpectedly fail. MMApp[1-4] are being replaced, and we will need to look at replacing the test domain controllers so we can move to Windows Server 2008.
Strangeness in software installs
We have seen software installations sometimes not working consistently. Please be aware that installations do sometimes go wrong and installations need to be followed up for the client's benefit. This came up again because MS Office 2007 would not install via GPO from Artsapp correctly over top of MS Office XP but yet would correctly work from artsapp2.
Science reports...
Sysprep images for their new Core 2 Duo machines are not installing.
Unexplained network problems have shown up causing strange behaviour.
Passwords
The change password page has been changed to make it easier for the user. Feedback from the users would be nice.
Printer naming scheme issues
People are inconsistently naming printers within Active Directory. Hon will be removing incorrectly named printers.
Applying computer settings
We have had reports of login problems with the dialog box of "Applying Computer Settings" getting stuck. Unfortunately this is not reproducible and also it seems to be restricted to specific computers.
Sciborg/Scimail issues
Sciborg has been having problems with delivering mail. Allan spent most of the Thanksgiving weekend working on it and has likely solved the problems for now.
Software licensing
It appears that Engineering will be leasing MS Office 2007 instead of outright purchasing the product. Leasing makes sense because of a greater than 2 computers per FTE ratio.
Software licensing
Symantec Antivirus was upgraded on Clipper. We still have old versions of SAV installed on some workstations and are not getting automatic updates anymore. Please look into your problem computers and correct them.
Next meeting scheduled for October 17, 2007.
