Present: William Dougherty-NI&S, chair and scribe; Mike moyer-DCM; Richard Quintin-DBAA; Bill deWindt-LT; Kimberley Homer-SETI QA; Brian Jones-CNS; Susan Feng-DBAA; Kevin Davis-UCS; Susan Brooker-Gross-IT Mgmt; Jeff Kidd-CNS PR; Karen Herrington-IMS; Lylah Shelor-Facilities Manager.
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M:SIS: Active Directory maintenance on October 20th. A schema change will be populated throughout the A.D. and should be transparent to users. This is necessary to support a Windows Server 2008 update.
CNS: Network Engineering will continue to upgrade network equipment in preparation for the buildings ahead of the Unified Communications project. Any network interruptions will be announced via VT-DNET. It is still unclear if we are going to be interrupting Internet services over the upcoming holidays. Rolling upgrade of core and edge routers likely to occur over Thanksgiving holiday. Recommendation to make a campus announcement since the work will take outbound traffic to the internet out.
We do have to apply software upgrades to all of our core network devices in order to support Ipv6 in any VRF instance. The issue pushing this upgrade is the RLAN. Nothing is scheduled for this task at this time.
VPN and Load balancing implementation may occur over winter holidays.
During UC Conversion of AISB, CNS discovered that wireless is under-powered so that will be updated during the UC changes.
DBAA: On November 4, DBAA will be doing the Fall 2012 Banner upgrades. Notification via the usual methods; SBG suggests using the VT News Campus Notice and has offered to assist. Due to maintenance the following databases will not be available from 06:00 AM to 05:00 PM on Sunday November 4, 2012:
PROD
FPRD
Also the following dvlp web applications will be
unavailable during this maintenance:
web for student
web for employee
web forms
leave reporting
web password change (PROD/FPRD)
During this maintenance the following installs will be applied to PROD/FPRD:
Banner Advancement 8.5 PROD
Banner Advancement SSB 8.5.2 PROD
Banner AR 8.4 + Patches PROD
Banner Finance 8.7 + Patches PROD/FPRD
Banner Student 8.5.4 PROD
Banner Student SSB 8.5.3 PROD
Banner DBEU 8.0.0.3 (ALUMNI, FAISMGR, FIMSMGR, FTEAMGR, GENERAL, PAYROLL, POSNCTL, SATURN, TAISMGR, VTALUMNI, VTARSYS, VTFINANCE, VTGENERAL, VTPAYROLL, VTPOSNCTL, WTAILOR) PROD/FPRD
Facilities and Data Center: Generator for B power feed was damaged, but a new generator was brought out and left until repairs are made.
Note: Modem pool has been officially decommissioned.
Exchange route testing: Environment is in place for testing. Goal is that those who are in Exchange and they don't want it to leave the campus servers.
UCS: Wireless updates; Windows 8 and VT_Wireless are not working together yet.
SAMSWise update: Bedework likely to be dropped as a platform in favor of use of a web app and use the Google calendar API to integrate.