11/16/2006 ACCIS Meeting

• Location/Time
• Agenda
• Minutes
• Presentations
• Action Items

Location/Time

Multi-site Video Conference at 9:00-10:30am

Center Green - Building CG1, Room 2655
Foothills Lab - Building FL1, Room 2133
Mesa Lab - Director's Conference Room

Agenda

1. Review of previous meeting's minutes
2. State of ACCIS Projects/Action List
   • Active Directory - Wendy D.
   • Calendaring - Heather H.
   • Room Reservation System
     
   • Central Authentication - Aaron A., Lynda M.
     
   • Computer Rooms Project - Pat W.
   • Electronic Mail - Mark U., Markus S.
     
   • FTP - Aaron A., Mark U.
     
     • Project Closeout
   • Software Management - Pat W.
   • Standardized Documentation - Jim V.
   • Project Documents
   • Software Licensing - Pat W.
   • SLAs Required, Formatting, and Definitions - Jim V., Pat W.
   • Web Conferencing Project - Mic S.
     
3. ACCIS Web Site
4. ACCIS Member list
5. Open Discussion
   
6. Future Agenda Items
7. Action List

Minutes

Attendance

• Mesa Lab
  • Jim VanDyke - NETS / Chair
  • Markus Stobbs - SCD
  • Nick Wehrheim - CGD
  • Lynda McGinley - SCD Security
  • Joan Fisher - Recorder
  • Terry Murray - Library
• Center Green
  • Wendy Derman - FA
• Foothills Lab
  • Tim Fredrick - ACD
  • Pat Waukau - MMM
  • Karl Hudnut-UOP
  • Tor Mohling - RAL
  • Mic Stremel - DLESE
  • Karl Hanzel - COMET
  • Mike Leon - GLOBE

Previous Meeting's Minutes - Approved

Project / Action Item List

• Active Directory - Wendy D.
  • A Vista presentation took place yesterday, approximately 20 people attended.
  • There is some concern regarding the way group policies are handled. Be cautious and make sure you are not opening production group policies using Vista. We do not currently know how to backup/restore some new Vista domain features.
  • Vista will not be released until November 30th. Once Wendy receives a copy it will go up on the U drive.
  • A license server to validate the corporate copies will be needed. A 30 day test license is available. Tim Fredrick is checking with Contracts for pricing.
• Calendaring -Jim V.
  • Still working on the new version of Meeting Maker, a few issues need to be resolved.
  • Work continues on the room reservation system, no specifics were given.
  • Has anything been said about hand helds? Sounds like it may be a big mess with the conversion, not sure how it will play out.
• Central Authentication -Lynda M .
  • Purchased a new Cryptocard server.
  • Looking at another vendor for Cryptocard support, we hope we won't have to change vendors but may.
  • Are you not happy with Cryptocards? We can't get support from them. There have been some management changes and know there is competition, so they are being more receptive but we need to see how it goes. We also don't want to rule out other options if Cryptocard goes under, need to be prepared. It would be expensive to change at this point but must be prepared.
  • The redesign group meets today.
  • Upgraded the gatekeepers last week.
  • If you see any problems with the Gatekeepers please let Lynda know.
• Computer Room - Pat W.
  • Pat has sent computer room space cost information out.
  • Unidata and Comet will have some space in FL2 3095.
  • The strategic plan will be presented to ITC on Tuesday.
• Electronic Mail -Pat W. Markus
  • It is a go!
  • The plan is to transition a few users before Thanksgiving, then move rest after.
  • The goal is to have everyone transitioned by the first of the year.
• FTP - Jim V .
  • This project will be closed soon.
• Software Management - Pat W.
  • Preparing a presentation for UMC. Working with Contracts, and creating a role out / training schedule.
  • The roll out will begin Jan 1st. Information will be in Today@UCAR.
• Standardized Documentation - Jim V.
  • No updates.
• Software Licensing - Pat W.
  • Ed did get the 6.2 PGI licenses on the server. Version 6.2 is suppose to be "fixes" in the upgrade.
  • Pat and Ed need to find time to test, may want to test within divisions.
• SLA's Required, Formatting, and Definitions - Jim V., Pat W.
  • Working with Facilities and Security to complete sla's.
  • Jim provided the group with the Authentication sla from CSAC.
  • Tim would like to be aware of changes that are made. Making changes on the twiki is fine.
  • Will have to come up with a plan to move the sla's from CSAC to ACCIS. It would be nice to have a "work in progress" section, as well as a "completed" section.
• Web Conferencing - Mic S.
  • Not to much to report
  • Waiting for Bill Hammel to provide feedback from the RFI. Hope to get a meeting together soon.
  • The plan is to have an RFP out by the end of December.
• ACCIS Web Site- Markus S.
  • Jim and Marcus hope to spend some time on this over the next month.
• ACCIS Member List-
  • No changes
• Future Agenda Items-
• Additional Discussion-
  • Markus asked if anyone is using mef and umf to create directories? 5 digit scientist user id numbers will begin to be issued in January. Check the code to make sure that it will not break when 5 digit codes come through. If you want to test let Markus know. Question asked; have you talked to Karl Werner with UIS involvement.
  • Frost and mass store are going on the Teragrid.
• The December meeting has been canceled.
• Action Item List-
  • Formatting changes to the SLA should be done soon, major changes will need to go through CSAC.
  • Jim and Marcus will meet to discuss the ACCIS web site.

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