4/19/2007 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
  • Lynda McGinley - CISL
  • Nick Wehrheim - CGD
  • Terry Murray - DIR/ISS
  • Joan Fisher - CISL
• Center Green
  • Heather Harris - FA
  • Alex Escenbaum - FA
  • Markus Stobbs - CISL
• Foothills Lab
  • Pat Waukau - MMM
  • Tim Fredrick - ACD
  • Karl Hanzel - COMET
  • Karl Hudnut - UOP
  • Brian Kelly - UNIDATA
  • Mic Stremel - DLESE

Previous Meeting's Minutes - Approved

Project / Action Item List

• Active Directory - Alex E.
  • Wendy has taken another job and is no longer be employed at UCAR.
  • A review of FA has been looked at for CIT, WSUS, and SAV, CIT will be focused on the most.
  • First thing to do is create a coverage plan, who is covering what. Heather is the primary admin, Carol Smith and Ilan Levy are her backups.
  • Second is to get assistance from an external domain expert. This person would do a domain review and prepare an overview.
  • Third is to prepare a permanent staffing plan.
  • All very up in the air at this point.
  • Would like to set up a communication venue for division wide Windows Administrators. Hope is to have weekly conversation amongst this group to discuss pros, cons, problems, and solutions.
  • Domain will be maintained per the SLA, there may be some change with ou support.
  • Heather will be working with the Vista task force.
  • FA is not planning on moving to Vista anytime soon, although they will support it.
  • FA requests that you pass on any information you have on Vista so they can stay in the loop. At this time, they don't have any plans as to what divisions are planning on doing for installation.
  • Tim reports they will be moving to 07 in the spring. Licenses were purchased through Contracts with SoftChoice.
  • FA did not budget for MS07 this year.
  • Users that do not have MS07 may have some issues when receiving 07 documents.
  • Tim has migrated to MDS, call him if you have questions.
• Calendaring - Heather H .
  • Palm 8.6 conduits have arrived, Blackberry's not included at this time.
• Central Authentication -Lynda M.
  • Nothing new on the Gatekeepers.
  • The security redesign project is making progress, next will be to ask other divisions to use the Radius server. Have PAM modules and have tested OpenBSD.
  • Greg and David are working on the project and hope to have it stable by May. Then comes another design review with results from the external testers. Hope to have in production in June.
  • ML Power outage scheduled for April 28th, there will be no service at the ML. Call 1200 if needed.
• Computer Room - Pat W.
  • The implementation committee has been formed. They have met once, discussed timeframe's, recommendations, and looking to have a report complete by December for budget consideration. Complete group meets once a month, task force groups meet more often.
  • Project involves evaluating CG3 and ML for a computer facility, governance in management, recover of existing rooms, and defining an organizational process where the potential purchase of a computer is in the pipeline and not wait until the last minute to see if power is available.
• Electronic Mail -Markus S.
  • Report summary has been submitted to Ed for review. Not ready to do a presentation. CISL wants time to review the report, should have CISL feedback at the next meeting.
• FTP - Pat W.
  • Lynda will talk to Paul Goodman about writing user documentation, then the project can be closed.
• Software Management - Pat W.
  • Viewed a beta show from the primary Vendor yesterday. Contracts is making sure we have all our needs covered, testing will take place, and Katy will announce the vendor. One or two primary purchasing agents will be selected per division.
  • Hope to have rolled out by June.
• Standardized Documentation - Pat W.
  • No update.
• Software Licensing - Pat W.
  • Ed and Pat have not had time to meet to discuss PGI. The license server needs to be upgraded to accommodate users. Hope to have it done in a month.
  • Has anyone tried 7.0? No.
• SLA's Required, Formatting, and Definitions - Jim V., Pat W.
  • No update.
• Web Conferencing - Mic S.
  • Bill and Mic have met. Due to the new Vendor selection, more time is needed. The RFP has been put on hold.
• ACCIS Web Site- Pat W.
  • No update
• ACCIS Member List- Jim V.
  • No changes.
• Future Agenda Items-
  • Nothing new to add.
• Additional Discussion-
  • Directory Services: The NCAR Directorate submitted a request to find a starting solution, we need to have a central mechanism to identify people. Originally looked at combining two current directories, now they don't need the CISL accounting information, really only need the HR database information. FA will make the HR database available to the NCAR Directorate.
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