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Open Lab Futures

Open Lab Futures. Debbie Carraway / John Klein Information Technology. Some Brief Announcements. David Ladrie / Susan Klein (ITD Computing Services) More information will be available at the next open meeting, where we respond to what we hear from you today.

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Open Lab Futures

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  1. Open Lab Futures Debbie Carraway / John Klein Information Technology

  2. Some Brief Announcements • David Ladrie / Susan Klein (ITD Computing Services) • More information will be available at the next open meeting, where we respond to what we hear from you today. • Other issues of General Interest? (ITD people, be quiet, you had your chance to be on the agenda)

  3. That was then… • Open meetings in March, 2000 to discuss what ITD should do to improve its “Open Lab” offerings • Follow-up meeting in April laid out plans which we’ve subsequently followed

  4. Major issues from those meetings • Easier/Faster Application Deployment & Maintenance • Client Diversity • Education • Auditing • Universally Accessible File System • Workstation Maintenance (ties with 1st bullet)

  5. How we responded See http://www.ncsu.edu/mtip/notes/April-5-2000/ppt/ Several issues not addressed in that meeting: • Client Diversity • Education • Auditing • Universally Accessible File System

  6. Client* Diversity • Windows 95/98 now supported • Windows 2000 lab deployment “in progress” • Complete secure LDAP access to NDS from all platforms (Solaris/Mac/Linux/more) • ConsoleOne for Solaris almost ready • Mac AFP/IP in beta test here at NC State * Client software, not client “people” 

  7. Education • Training classes in CALS lab last March (Zen 2) • Training classes in AFTC last November (workstation registration/preparation) • Targeted for content, not polish • Framework on which documentation web pages are built

  8. Auditing • We purchased (a site license) for “AuditLogin” software which tracks usage server-side. • Zen 2 has automatic workstation inventory, which we are using in the ITD Unity labs.

  9. All your Base, are belong to Us! http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,100525,00.html

  10. Universally Accessible File System • Zip 250 drives on new ITD purchased lab machines. • “Profile” quota now at 10 MB • Several projects still under consideration. • Did we mention we have Zip disks now? 

  11. Issues Raised over E-mail • Reliability • Collaboration for “Faculty/Staff” application development • …

  12. Reliability • Current, real time status of all ITD fileservers on the web for your review: http://www.ncsu.edu/mtip/zen/labs/itdservers.htm • All new print servers • All new profile servers (NSS) • All replica servers now equipped with 1 GB of RAM

  13. Collaboration Good idea! We’ll present some options next meeting!

  14. So, what now? • What are the major consumers of your time and energy in providing “open” labs for students?

  15. So what? (now) • What processes does ITD need to put into place to smooth routine operations?

  16. So, WHAT? Now! • What features do you want developed in your labs over the next year?

  17. So… what now? • What topics would you like covered in short courses? • Are there topics that should be taught regularly/on what schedule? • What are your top priorities for web documentation?

  18. Open Lab Futures Debbie Carraway / John Klein Information Technology

  19. Don’t be surprised in May • ITD* will drop support and decommission critical support servers for the NCSU GINA on May 18, 2001 • After that date, your NCSU GINA machines will not function if you take no action. • Announcement was made 9 months in advance. Reminders go out monthly. * ITD is not NCSU

  20. “Name that group” competition! • We’ve reorg’d so much, we have no name! • Currently answer to “Microsys”, “MTIP”, and (our current favorite) “NuTS” • All submissions must not violate the Unity guidelines prohibiting profanity.

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