Agenda for Waterloo Polaris Advisory Group (WPAG) Wed. July 21 9:30-11:00 MC-1058

NetApps

As of right now, the NetApps in Science, Arts and Applied Health Science (AHS) are not up, so I suspect those Faculties are not planning a Sept 1 production date. What are their plans ? (Bruce)

Network Testing

100/full/half/auto probs - where are the departments re testing ? (Bruce)

GUIBOOT

EC plans to have only it's first year labs and Civil on GUIBOOT and NetApp for Sept 1. (That date may even be delayed, we'll know better by the meeting) (Bruce)
Current state of GUI Boot testing? (Nevil)
Will the no default user problem be fixed with GUI Boot? (Nevil)

NetApps Backups

Where is Information System and Technology (IST) on backups for the NetApps ? (Bruce)

Y2K (Ray)

Windows 2000(Erick)

CAS(Beth Jewkes)

Discussion of using CAS for Waterloo Polaris printing is ongoing in Engineering. I'd like to have some comment from UCIST and WPAG on this direction. I've asked about IST support for the additional demands this will place on the CAS system and have received a positive response.

Duane did ask at one time about other options, and had pointed out an NT-based system he was aware of. Bruce had a look at it and found that it did not support Unix printing and a number of other features we needed/wanted.

Documentation of the issues is at:

case print

Fall/Winter looks like the implementation timeframe if there is is interest/willingness on the part of all. Comments?