Engineering Systems Administrator Group
Minutes Mar 9, 2000
Prepared by Bruce Campbell
Present:
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Chair: Erick Engelke, Engineering Computing
- Hon Tam, Engineering Computing
- Ray White, IST
- Steve Hitchman, Mechanical Engineering
- Mike Herz, Civil Engineering
- Bruce Campbell, Engineering Computing
- Sanjay Singh, Systems Design
- Roger Sanderson, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Dennis Herman, Chemical Engineering
- Beth Jewkes, Engineering Computing
- Paul Martin, Management Science
Regrets:
- Martin MacLeod, Engineering Computing
Discussion:
Beth: CFI process - documents distributed
Erick:
IST must approve switches for campus
Erick is co-ordinating the plan for Engineering
All switches must be Cisco, except in special cases if approved
CFI fiscal year is March 30 to March 30 (with some flexibility)
cabling diagrams will be in Autocad
quotes on closets should be back soon. Completion May earliest.
rackmounts, patch panels etc are part of wiring
Ray:
needs internet explorer for some applications
finished Eudora 4.3 (IMAP not recommended)
Netscape - IMAP is recommended
Wordperfect - service pack 7
Netscape - newest version
Autocad 12 scheduled to be removed September
Erick: Apprentice lab shutdown and move to Windows 2000
Beth: History of Apprentice Lab, future, etc
Bruce: NetApp account moves starting next week
Beth: Windows 2000 training by Microsoft. 2 stages. An initial
2 day design course, and later an admin course.