Debbie's called an internal meeting this afternoon to setup some projects and get some timelines together for moving our various ADs to WolfTech

I figured I'd put out my project list to save some face to face time

Project: Migrate existing servers to WoldTech WSUS
Should just be a matter of mapping our "approval" models to the WolfTech ones, adjusting for any mismatches (eg does WT currently have a "all patches except for Office" profile needed by the Citrix boxen?) and set a timetable to implement.

I've been invited to participate in a "Managed Environment/Virtual Desktop" group looking into impacts and possible savings.  No meetings have been set as yet and I don't know who else is participating. I'll post more as it develops.

Brian Askills from the University of Washington has done a good presentation on FERPA which is available online at:

http://windows-hied.org/wiki/index.php5?title=FERPA_and_Active_Directory

It's 45 minutes.

The first 30 minutes are all about FERPA. It provides a good intro to the subject, with some interesting tid-bits. The last 15 minutes are FERPA & Active Directory. It is a little Exchange-heavy.

I think, being a Microsoft LiveMeeting ActiveX kind of thingie, it may require Internet Explorer. Opera don't work.

So Debbie, Harry and I have done some extremely rough counts trying to compute the TCO of the Pcounter system, and how much resource we stand to save when we decommission these servers at the end of the month.

I've added permissions for "general access" and "view server details" to the TSS group.  I'm sure they will all use this power for good and not evil.

I'm a little befuddled as to what our mission is transmongrifing into.  Today is the deadline to submit our suggestions for projects that need ETF funds, but I'm guessing from Dr. Hoit's announcement today that expanding our student lab services is no longer strategic.

I just had a converstation with some collegues from the colleges, and picked up some tidbits to share.

Dr. Hoit met with some college level representatives (the AITD, I'm guessing from his twitter feed) and discussed the need to trim $1M from the University IT budget.  It was unclear where this number came from, if it was a hypothectical, or a mandate, or even a self set goal.

The scripts I'm using to populate, manage and test the Windows drivers on WolfPrint have been copied into subversion.  The repo is

https://svn.unity.ncsu.edu/svn/print/trunk/sambascripts/

It's private to unix systems folks (I think) as the source has some sql passwords in it.

It's pretty raw, as a work in progress, so don't expect a README or nuttin. :-)

We've removed the "directory" xteam from xteams.oit.ncsu.edu

Traffic is redirected to the WolfTech site (soon to be redirected to teh "activedirectory" portion thereof) and the cron jobs generating rss and other tasks has been halted.

The folks in ITECS and elsewhere on campus are working extremely closely together on projects involving sub-silos of OIT-ISO.  Projects like Active Directory, VMWare, and the like are early examples, and others appear to be "in the pipe"

Our current privacy on this site is set by organizational hierarchy (Public, OIT only, ISO only, OIT-ISO-SHS only, etc) and is going to need to be extended, adapted, or modified to allow folks not in the org chart access to technical details.