Present: William Dougherty-NI&S; scribe and chair; Jeff Kidd-NI&S; Richard Hach-NI&S; Richard Quintin-ES/DBAA; Steve Cox-CCS; Lucas Sullivan-ITEE; Laurie Zirkle-NI&S Application Management (AM); Kimberley Homer-IT A&P; Brad Tilley-ITSO
SMT: Dates needed for NetApp OS update (to 8.3; major update); thee possible dates–Saturday, October 22nd, and then Sundays Nov. 6th and 13th. Anticipates this to be non-impactful but will announce as an outage and will affect Exchange. Time estimate not known, but less than three hours is probable. DBAA has maintenance scheduled for November 13th, so would need to coordinate. Nov. 6th is change back to standard time. BoV meeting is scheduled for Nov 6 and 7. What about 11/5/16? Will NetApp folks be on site? Need to schedule them? Will fix a memory leak issue that is causing intermittent problems with NFS mounts going away briefly. TLOS impacts are likely higher if downtime is encountered.
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DBAA: Fall Banner upgrades will be done on November 13th. 5am to 2pm. Survey.vt.edu will be shutdown at the end of calendar year. KH asked about hosting name for Google sites. If redirect is required one could request such through TeamDynamix of Hosting. OneCampus may also offer some features.
NI&S/UAS: KVM maintenance is underway. Caused a CMS system reboot yesterday, so scheduling may need review. New consolidated E911 center system, "alderfly," need to be patched. May require early morning downtime.
CCS: Yesterday was another patch Tuesday. CCS may or may not patch this weekend. Exchange server firmware patching on the Dell servers will be scheduled coincidentally to the NetApp maintenance.
NI&S PR: Publicity related to high availability voice devices will be re-distributed this fall. eduroam issues have also been publicized.
NI&S App Mgmt: Not for public consumption: VT Alerts maintenance October 26th between 5am and 7am. October 25th, wiki.cns.vt.edu will be shutdown. Targeted email also sent to users of rdweb.cns.vt.edu. This is running on very old hardware, with some older access credentials still active. Server likely to be shutdown on November 1st. Core maintenance is scheduled for tomorrow; notice sent to VTDNET.
ITSO: Restricted DNS is up and running. Hokies AD needs to update their redirects. Ransomware issues coming in; 15TB NAS share was encrypted and professors wish to pay the ransom.
Future discussion: URL memorability, persistence, and deprovisioning. ED Group stems also an issue; check with Kevin Rooney about Group Manager.