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
