Mike: Comdex this year was not worth going to, it has shrunk and no major vendors were present.
Erick: Ray went to the University of Colorado in Boulder for a Windows 2000 in Higher Education Workshop conference.
Ray: I filled in a few details about my experiences for a more detailed list please take a look at http://infont.uwaterloo.ca/win2k for Windows 2000 links about UW and other Universities. Manfred's notes about the conference are at http://infont/win2k/win2k_deployment_workshop.htm and a joint email we sent out when we came back can be found there as well.
Martin: trying to get ACAD drawings of Engineering Buildings to assist with wiring diagrams still, there seems to be a problem. Please report any changes in wiring to Martin so the wire can get tested and sketched.
Erick: Another Windows 2000 training session is being planned most likely
in September, the title is "Windows 2000 and Unix Interoperability", more
details will follow.
Mike: What implications are there with running Windows 2000 on Civil Engineering workstations.
Ray: Currently none since the Windows 2000 servers are not yet available
(we would like to have more people test our two domains soon). There will
be implications once Windows 2000 clients exclusively use Windows 2000 servers
for logon authentication. Quite a long discussion ensued about OU's relationships
between Domains (and Forest implications). A very useful suggestion of disclosing
a list of parent administrators to all users involved might help build trust.
Erick: CFI switch paperwork is much closer to being finished. Account
numbers have been submitted and Erick thought this would be the end however
to get the funding IST needs the PO numbers so PO's have been written up
by Paula and distributed around to get signatures.