Meeting held on December 9, 2009

In attendance: Kimberley Homer-SETI; Russ Fenn-DBAA; Nate Smith & Flex Vaughn-UCS; Karen Herrington-IMS; Susan Brooker-Gross-IT Mgmt; Bill deWindt-Learning Technologies; Rob Sprague-VTOC; William Dougherty-Systems Support/Chair & Scribe

• The WSUS client will expire on or around January 28, 2010. This has been announced through the TechSupport list. The worst case scenario is that a machine will revert to settings previously established if the update cannot be applied. The new client is in testing with 4Help and should be released shortly.
• BlackBoard is on schedule to be replaced by the VT Sakai instance, labeled Scholar. The target date of the beginning of Fall Semester 2010 means that no new use of BlackBoard will exist after that time. Data will be retained for a period (6 months) to ensure professors have transferred all they need.
• REMINDER--Regular maintenance windows exist for services:
  • CNS maintenance is normally performed between 5:00am and 7:00am on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
  • Systems Support maintenance is normally performed between 3:00am and 7:00am Monday-Saturday, and 3:00am and 3:00pm on Sunday. Exact times will be determined in most cases in consultation with the application administrators.
  • DBAA-ORACLE maintenance is usually conducted on Sundays beginning at 6:00am. 
    • All groups reserve the rights to perform emergency updates and patches as required to ensure proper system performance and security.

• Future announcement:IMS is preparing to push a new attribute to the Enterprise Directory for the Registrar, the UDC ID (Unified Digital Campus ID; essentially Banner's versio of the UID), which will be used by CAS for self-service operations. This is a very minor update and will likely happen sometime during January.  

• Only activity of note for the next period: 
  • January 9th, 2010 (Saturday): BlackBoard update to apply a security patch.
  • January 10th, 2010 (Sunday): Generator test in AISB Data Center.