Members present: Craig Berry, Allen Bradley, Bill Buntain, Tim Christian, Wil Clark, Jim Curry, Mike Hatch, Paul Hons, Kirk Kelly, Maurice Leatherbury, Gary Matthews, Robert Pierce, Chris Strauss, Mike Wright, Roy Zumwalt
Members absent: Rich Anderson, Troy Bacon, Sandy Burke, Ginger Boone, Eric Duchemin, Cyndie Harris, Abraham John, Ramu Muthia, Kelly Wood
Guests: Phil Baczewski, Jan Brothers, CR Chevli, Blair Copeland, Daren Dugan, Randy Galloway, Rich Hall, Richard Harris, Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner, Jennifer Johnson, Mike Maner, Andrew McGregor, Patrick Pluscht, Rory Rivoire, Charlotte Russell, Chris Stoermer, Jon Walker,
The minutes of the June 4, 1999 meeting was approved with no corrections.
The meeting started with a presentation on the data communications infrastructure
upgrade, given by Bill Buntain (a large number of guests were in attendance to see his
presentation.) The Powerpoint slides are available on the Web at www.unt.edu/nms/dcsmt.pps
.
Following Bill's presentation, the guests departed and the minutes
of the June 18, 1999 meeting were approved with corrections.
There was no report from the call tracking since it hadn't met since the last DCSMT
meeting.
Wil Clark, reporting for the student computing committee said that the final draft of its
recommendations had been sent out. Maurice will take that draft to the IRC Standards &
Cooperation committee for its approval and action.
The Personnel committee had not formally met, Maurice reported, but he passed out the
latest Computing Support Quotient figures that were compiled from data provided by the
various distributed support units. Maurice said that he still needed data from some areas
regarding their support ratio for student labs. Tim reported that his latest search
process had produced a very good candidate pool, so the recent changes to the minimum
requirements for CSS positions had not adversely affected his ability to hire good
persons.
Allen Bradley reported that the Groupwise Web client that is used remotely is having some
problems with denying access or dropping connections in the middle of sessions. Version
5.5 of Groupwise is promised to be the solution but Campus Wide Networking is not ready
yet to roll that version out. Because the Web version is crashing about once per day,
Allen said that the GroupWise remote client should be installed and used at home
instead. It is 24MB so can't be downloaded from the Web, but CD-ROM's with the installable
version are available. Regarding documentation on installing the remote client, Mike Hatch
agreed to send his instructions to Allen for distribution. Allen will also burn CD's for
the distributed support units.
Maurice said that the Microsoft Campus Agreement has been signed on campus and that the
purchase order has gone out. He expected that in the next week or two everything should be
ready. Mike Hatch asked whether they could install the Select Agreement versions now for
testing purposes, and Maurice responded that those versions would be the Campus Agreement
versions as well, but that the using departments would have to pay for the copies under
the Select Agreement.
Tim Christian raised the question about why, in the students in the tree project,
students will need to use ZIP disks and not have centralized space. The answer given was
that a Storage Area Network would be necessary to make enough disk space available to
support all 25,500 students. Wil Clark will reconvene the student computing committee to
further investigate appropriate solutions.
Jim Curry reported that there is a new laptop offering from Dell, a machine costing
$3105.00. The 366Mhz machine will no longer be offered, being replaced by a 400MHz one.
The 56Kbps modem is now a Psion part. IDOs for this year will not be accepted after August
31 and Y2K upgrades will not be available either. Jim also noted that Windows 98 and NT
licensing requires a new case and motherboard be purchased in order for MMS to be able to
issue software with a computer purchase.
The meeting adjourned at 12:00 PM.
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