In attendance: William Dougherty-NI&S, scribe and chair; Karen Herrington-IMS; Scot Ransbottom-ITSO; Steve Cox-CCS; Kevin Davis-UCS; Mike Moyer-DCM; Jeff Kidd-CNS PR; Richard Quintin-DBAA; Brian Long-SETI Q&A; Wanda Baber-SS/SMT
CSS:
1) Monthly Microsoft patch maintenance will be performed on the Central Services and VCOM Active Directory Domain Controllers as well as managed Central Services Servers and Hyper-V Failover Cluster Hosts, plus MS patches recently released.
Date: Saturday, November 15th
Date: Sunday, November 16th
Time: 5:00am - 12:00noon (for both)
The following will be unavailable may also be unavailable for 5-15 minutes at various times during the maintenance period (or this might be put off until the 29th and 30th):
BIS Hyperion Website
VT Office Communication Server
Print Services on SSPrint01
Active Directory authentication is expected to be working due to the presence of a domain controller in each domain that will not be offline. Machines that have cached their domain controller may experience delays during logins and queries due to failover.
Updated entry for CCS patching this weekend, November 15-16, 2014 (mostly to cover that critical MS patch)
CCS Production Servers Patch Maintenance
Patch maintenance will be performed on all Collaborative Computing Solutions (CCS) production servers Saturday, November 15, from 5am-12pm.
Hokies Active Directory and Hokies DNS will be available, but the following CCS services will be unavailable for 5-15 minutes at various times during the maintenance period.
ADadmin web site
BIS Hyperion Website
Print Services on SSPrint01
VCOM Exchange Email infrastructure
VDWS
VDWS portal web site
VT CCS web sites
VT Exchange Email infrastructure
VT Office Communication Server
entire W2K-DEV and W2K-TEST forests and web sites and services
Active Directory authentication is expected to be working in Hokies, Central Services, University Services, and VCOM domains due to the presence of a domain controller in each domain that will not be offline. Machines that have cached their domain controller or are programmed to use a DNS server that will be offline may experience delays during logins and queries.
2) Probably some VT AD and Exchange patching but we haven’t pinned down a date for those yet.
DCM:
A reminder that we will be performing a "quarterly" load transfer test on the generators at AISB on 11/23/14 at 8am, followed by the annual PM inspection of the UPSes (which will necessitate them being placed into bypass mode, one at a time) starting at 9am. No real impacts forecast, but everyone should be aware.
CNS:
New wireless SSID, EDUROAM, will be coming online soon. This will provide ability to log in at other participating institutions using our own credentials and vice versa.
SMT:
Maintenance needed for production NetApp NAS; six or more hardware parts need to be replaced. Either Saturday, any time, or Sunday after noon (11/22 or 11/23). CFS users would have to reconnect, but NFS users should be able to remain active with a brief interruption. Some interaction with CCS will be required to possibly update A.D. entries.
CTSSR:
No updates from me other than to remind the audience of IT risk assessments – Due December 1, 2015.