WNAG Advisory Report

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WNAG Advisory Report

• Presented to UCIST
• June 23, 2006
• Presented by
• Stephen Nickerson

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Winter 2006 WNAG Activities

• Annual Rotation of Chair and Secretary
• New Chair
• Bernie Rutter (Environmental Studies)
• New Secretary
• Daniel Delattre (Engineering)

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Winter 2006 WNAG Activities

• Ecfile1 outage report
• Report presented to WNAG by Ray White
• Ecfile1 had a hardware array error caused by a
  pinched and shorted out cable
• Restore took hours to complete to the new media
• New server is in production now

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Winter 2006 WNAG Activities

• App filer upgrades
• Engineering
• Arts
• Net App OS upgrade
• Science

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Winter 2006 WNAG Activities

• Server Changes
• Moves to MFCF Machine room
• Grandis (Nexus Domain Controller)
• Asuka (Nexus DNS Server)
• Grandis HW upgrades
• Nexus servers moved into new computing facility
• Science production servers moved to new facility

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Winter 2006 WNAG Activities

• Nexus Cleanup
• Initiated by Erick Engelke
• Cleanup of machine and User accounts
• Nexus machines added to DNS
• Public Access OU for reporting on computers with
  multiple users ie. Lab Machines

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Winter 2006 WNAG Activities

• New/Upgraded Nexus Labs
• ES General Access Nexus Lab (26 seats)
• CS replacing three Nexus labs with Intel MACs
  for fall 2006

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Winter 2006 WNAG Activities

• Information Sharing
• Nexus Documentation TWIKI
• Growing repository of shared notes
• Will include system
• documentation and
• policies

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Winter 2006 WNAG Activities
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Winter 2006 WNAG Activities

• Online exams - blocking outside access
• Arts is looking into online exams
• Computer Science and Engineering use a hardware
  firewall to block all outside connectivity during
  exams
• Considering using NIPFW and PSExec to block
  outside access during exams

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Winter 2006 WNAG Activities

• Software Licensing
• Continuing discussions regarding software
  licensing
• SW packaging activity
• Common Apps updated
• Firefox 1.5
• Adobe Reader V7.07
• SPSS updated to version 14
• Group Policy Cleanup all faculties
• Cleanup of non-assigned GPOs

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Winter 2006 WNAG Activities

• Ongoing projects
• SAMBA3 upgrades and authentication issues
• NIPFW - Firewall
• Currently in use in Eng, Sci, Arts.
• Will be testing in ES
• Printer Naming Conventions
• SAS Licensing
• New Labs Science
• Nexus Lab relocations in ES

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Winter 2006 WNAG Activities

• Future Considerations
• Vista
• hardware and software requirements and costs
• Office 2007
• 64-bit OS
• MS will drop 32-bit OS support by end of decade
• 32 bit Application upgrades will be required