- Review of previous meeting's minutes
- State of ACCIS Projects/Action List
- Active Directory - Heather H.
- Calendaring - Heather H.
- Central Authentication - Lynda M.
- Computer Rooms Project - Pat W.
- Electronic Mail - Glenda A.
- FTP - Glenda A.
- Software Management - Pat W.
- Standardized Documentation - Jim V.
- Software Licensing - Pat W.
- SLAs Required, Formatting, and Definitions - Jim
V., Pat W.
- Web Conferencing Project - Mic S.
- ACCIS Web Site
- ACCIS Member list
- Open Discussion
- Future Agenda Items
- Action List
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Attendance
- Mesa Lab
- Terry Murray - DIR/ISS
- Joan Fisher - CISL
- Jim VanDyke - CISL
- Nick Wehrheim - CGD
- Center Green
- Heather Harris - FA
- Bunny Phau - FA
- Foothills Lab
- Pat Waukau - MMM
- Mic Stremel - DLESE
- Ted Russ - EOL
- Tor Mohling - RAL
- Tim Fredrick - ACD
Previous Meeting's Minutes - There was no meeting in August. July minutes are approved.
General Announcement: Wendy Derman and Sean McCreary will be joining the CISL Security team. Wendy on September 24th, Sean on October 1st.
Project / Action Item List
- Active Directory - Heather H.
- There were no questions regarding the Active Directory, and no updates to provide.
- Calendaring - Heather H .
- The MM Windows client is being pushed behind the scenes, the server will load over the weekend.
- The client version is incompatible, do you want to upgrade? Yes or No. If the files are not there it will have to download first. If deploying via group policy, the group policy for the old version will need to be uninstalled and then the new client installed. On Friday the 28th, the old group policy will be turned off and the new client will be pushed.
- The Palm conduit is separate, you may want to package that as well. Be sure to sync on Friday.
- Web client testing is going great, have not been able to force a disconnect. There are a few testers for the web version, and they too have not been able to force a disconnect.
- Looks and feels the same except in the proposal area. You now have an option to accept, deny, or remove proposals all at once.
- TomKat is being upgraded, figure that is why it is working better.
- Windows is also testing fine.
- Mac install is rather buggy. More testers are needed.
- We are working with People Cube on some problems, but they can't find the same problems we are having.
- 8.6.0 install does work, although do suggest using files in 8.6.2. Install only works with tcp not with ssl. 8.6.2 is painful but do able.
- Mac 8.6.2 has been pushed behind the scene as well, users will be asked to upgrade.
- In about a month a new web client will be coming out. It will be ajax compliant - drag and drop. Testing will begin as soon as it comes out.
- MM admin for 8.6 does not work in Vista. Yes that will be a problem for some.
- Mac install files will a be on the U drive. A dmg file will also be there in case you need a copy.
- Notify link still in the background.
- Room Reservation System
- Still on schedule to have the new system out by the end of the year. Also have to adjust for the new day light savings time.
- Ivantage is being upgraded this weekend.
- IE7 can not reach Ivantage at this time, use Citrix client.
- Central Authentication - Glenda A .
- Computer Room - Pat W.
- The implementation committee will be reviewing a first draft today. Plan to introduce to the Presidents Council in November.
- Electronic Mail - Glenda A.
- FTP - CISL.
- Jim is going to talk to Markus, no update at this time.
- Software Management - Pat W.
- This project is closed, can be removed from the agenda.
- Standardized Documentation - Pat W.
- Software Licensing - Pat W.
- Nothing has been done with the license server. Wanted everyone to upgrade to version 7.0 before the upgrade.
- MMM is having problems with the upgrade.
- Still testing the beta release for the Mac compilers.
- SLA's Required, Formatting, and Definitions - Jim V., Pat W.
- Trying to get this project restarted.
- Web Conferencing - Mic S.
- RFP is slated to be released mid October.
- A response team is being formed, hope to have vendor selected by December.
- Maybe in November a vendor presentation could be given, would like to have the groups opinion.
- ACCIS Web Site- Pat W.
- ACCIS Member List- Jim V.
- Brian Kelly will represent Unidata.
- Open Discussion -
- ITC Update - Jim
- In August the ITC (Information Technology Council) met and is reviewing their strategic plan, the current version is 10 years old.
- Looking at; what services and such do we need, does the scope fit our purpose, etc. The best way to get a plan is to go to the technical groups and have them discuss what they see as the future of the organization in terms of technology. Then bring those comments and ideas back to the ITC in November for discussion.
- A standard set of questions are being written; what is the direction of services, how should ITC manage its vision, as an organization where do we want to see information technology to go?
- NCAB is not meeting this month. Heather will provide a general ITC update to NCAB.
- Questions for people using Vista.
- What are people doing about ipv6 and Vista? I believe ipv6 is turned on by default.
- Tim is trying to turn it off as part of the deployment on MACs. He doesn't know how to turn it off on Windows, and would like some education on the risks of leaving it on. Ipv6 is not turned on at the routers.
- This will be a topic at NCAB.
- Vista has no ipv6 firewall capability. Just as open in ipv6 as ipv4, with less understanding. Port scanning is more difficult to check.
- Standardized Documentation - Jim
- Maybe we should look at an open document format. What do we think about the oasis project, the xlm formatting of documents, now that the new version of office has been delayed? Should we be looking at open document formatting at an organizational level? Most users are MS and many collaborators have determined formats.
- UIS Project - Pat W.
- The goal of this project is to have an authoritative resource for the organization. The project team consists of Kris Conrad, Barbara Holub, and the systems group in MMM.
- The goal is to have F&A populate accurate information of people in the organization into a central database. NETS will provide room numbers and phone extension info.
- Data will be accessible via SQL queries. Unique ID numbers are being created. Name, location, email, phone. a central resource for the org, each division can change access the data and extend locally as to fit their needs.
- MS Office needs more discussion. We need to find out what other divisions are doing with packages, versions, when will it deploy and how the standard package is going to look, etc.
- Looks like most division are using the Professional Plus version. Scientific development with Excel can be difficult if it is not compatible.
- MS Office08 for MACs will release in January. The ribbon interface is going to be different, and plug in capabilities are not necessary going to work.
- In Open Office and MS Office 07, the default format is a form of zip file. This format has been causing problems and could allow malware to enter. CSAC is discussing this.
- Future Agenda Items -
- Remove software management from the agenda.
- Add the UIS project to the agenda.
- Action Item List
- ITC discussion should be a big part of next meeting.
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