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Contents 1 Web Site 2 Web Apps 3 Lab Image 4 Faculty Load: MacOSX 5 Faculty Load: Linux 6 Staff Loads 7 Services 8 Documentation

[edit] Web Site

1. MathIT/Computing Page: Needs to become a resource, not a placeholder
2. Agnes needs PHP/MySQL assistance
3. MySQL Permissions need to be tightened; column security placed where necessary

[edit] Web Apps

1. MES - Math Event System
   1. Editor for Seminar Coordinators (or Staff proxy)
   2. Editor to "release" Seminars for weekly inclusion
   3. Generate PDF for printed materials
   4. "Deep-6" existing AJAX framework?
2. MathTrack - REWRITE
3. MMJ Application/Paper Submission
4. UMIAC Service Pages/OpenDirectory Glue
   1. Overrides Editor, including expired account cleanup
   2. Sync WGM groups to ARD plists -- WGM should be "definitive"
   3. ARD plist "server" -- from WWDC 2007 code
   4. Find duplicate machines/ethers in OD
   5. Prevent OD from being updated before the end of term -- might require admin override
   6. Courses_taught editor
5. FreeIP page - REWRITE. Current version can't handle subnet 249 (PsychIT)

[edit] Lab Image

1. 4hi/4hp Upgrades Needed - ASAP!! (4ip=4416, 4ii=4417)
   1. Check for existence of user "ard"
   2. Insert System and default user ARD plists
   3. R needs to be loaded
   4. chmod 777 /Users/Shared
   5. ARD License Preload?
2. Needs ability to take on system updates between versions
3. ~/Private/MATHLAB directories need to be "versioned" to keep old stuff from causing problems
4. 10.5 load needs to be tested -- unknown if OD bind will work. Note: 10.5 will be required for new lab machines!

[edit] Faculty Load: MacOSX

1. For 10.5+: Dept Load needs to be updated
2. Faculty should be bound to our OD, so that some management is possible (Startup/shutdown; default printers; inventory?)
3. Revise Math's login.hook file so that it can be used with faculty machines to allow any faculty to log into any faculty box; it should detect the "owner" of the machine its running on and grant access to the internal disk for that owner.
4. Upgrade faculty to 10.5 during upgrade cycle
5. Faculty Upgrades: April/May

[edit] Faculty Load: Linux

1. Move to RHEL5. Note: There may be issues with libstc++6 support in Mathematica 6
2. Adopt sudo admin model as in MacOSX
3. Adopt "self-service" update model as in MacOSX
4. How does RHEL5 stack up to Xubuntu in delivering Linux to our faculty?

[edit] Staff Loads

1. Vista migration (SS08)
2. Printer configuration - any ways to smooth this?
3. Can office staff use a Mac? a Netbooted image? who should be the trial person?

[edit] Services

1. Printing - Bonjour detection, zero-config clients on Mac, Linux?
2. Can Nagios help us monitor OS updates?
3. Printer Pooling: using 2 4250's/4350's instead of 1 8150 for each queue. Needs cost analysis performed; already have money for 4 lab printers (2007 and 2008 upgrades) to try this out. We would gain a measure of redundancy for floor printers. Note: 4250's can be had for around $900. Toner? Printer Life--do we care in this scenario?
4. 2009: should we buy ONLY iMac 20's for lab, faculty and staff? (staff would require LSAIT-buyin, as well as Fussman)
5. Web printing - can it be made to handle Office documents?

[edit] Documentation

1. Security Policy Docs (per Jan/2008 RECON)
2. State of MathIT - 2008
3. HOWTO collections - add to whenever possible!
4. Create and Update procedures documents