Minimum Workstation and Software Site License Subcommittee Minutes

 

March 17, 2005
Meeting in AH-1120 at 10 a.m.
Diana Osborn, Chair

St. Bernard
Diana stated the server has been stable with only an occassional restart. It was noted that 30% of the Windows XP machines' new installs don't show up on the console. However, most will do so after a reinstall. She hasn't seen the problem with the Windows 2000 machines. Having the firewall on or off doesn't seem to be the issue, since the problem occurs in that number on both. John Pastori has one (Win XP) that won't show up even after a reinstall. The next revision will see St. Bernard's Tech Support on site. It will have a standard set of patches defined for a workstation set. The new version should also allow us to customize the console per user, where currently any setting changes affect all users of the console.

McAfee Update
As of February 24th, McAfee has been issuing daily dats. ROHAN has been picking them up every 2 hours, since September 2004.

Peter Ryan announced that Merka Phoenix has obtained traning space in Extended Studies for the McAfee Training. 15-17 people have requested the training so far. The training is scheduled for Wednesday March 30th and Thursday June 2nd from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Extended Studies -- ESC Room 207. Please be able to commit to both training days.

March 30th, The class will consist of 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of Q/A with examples from each group's ePO server and clients. It will cover Getting Started, Setup, and Management. To enhance the training, we strongly recommend that the participants have installed a test version of ePO and have some test machines under management. That they bring a laptop which can connect to their ePO server by Remote Desktop. That they have read, or reviewed, the three manuals: ePO Installation Guide, ePO Management Guide, and the McAfee Anti-Virus 8 Guide.

June 2nd The class would consist of 2 hours of lecture and 2 hours of Q/A with examples from each group's ePO server and clients. It would cover Rogue Detection, Compliance, and notification. To enhance training, we strongly recommend that the participants have taken training 1 or have teamed up with someone who did. Same tools and reading material. Special emphasis on Rogue Detection and System Compliance Profiler.

McAfee and Microsoft Software Distribution
University Computer Operations invites SDSU faculty, staff, and auxiliaries (Aztec Shops, Associated Students, SDSU Research Foundation and Projects) to attend a forum and presentation on where to obtain FREE Microsoft Office Pro and McAfee AntiVirus licensed software on the SDSU campus.

This forum and presentation will be held in SS-1500 from 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m. on Monday April 4, 2005 and again on Wednesday April 6, 2005. Celia Chavez, Site License Software Coordinator for SDSU will be introducing information regarding the availability of many Microsoft products including MS Office Pro and McAfee AntiVirus software (PC & Mac) for your office and home use as well as updating you on software licensing legalities.

Contacts and distribution points for picking up copies of the software will be discussed. The Aztec Bookstore and other guests will be present to provide information and to answer any questions you may have.

Other Software Updates
Oracle database upgrade is coming in April or May. It will require a new install that can happen ahead of time on the affected workstations according to Donna Roelofsz.

Tiger, Apple's 10.4 OS, should be released April 15th.

Ghost may be a possible site license candidate, so please make sure your department information on Ghost in the Software Survey web site is up-to-date. This will provide us with current information, when negociations are ready. Please send your area's information on Ghost to Diana Osborn, as she will be setting up a subcommittee to explore a site license.

Security Plan
Felecia Vlahos stated the Security Plan draft may be released today. The final draft will be available in both print and web versions. It will reference the Faculty/Staff Technical Contacts found via the Computer Hardware & Software web pages. She said that every area needs to be on those pages with current information. Please send Technical Contact corrections to James Frazee.

Next MWSSLS meeting will be on April 21, 2005 at 10 a.m. in AH-1120.

PLEASE NOTE: The statements found on the MWSSLS Home Page are for informational purposes only. While every effort is made to ensure that this information is up to date and accurate, official information can be found in the University publications.

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