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Technology Update

Technology Update. TSAG Meeting 3/11/04. Reminders. CENIC (Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California) 4CNET is being phased out. (our current Backbone Connection) Coming up real soon… Transfer will be performed during working hours.

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Technology Update

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  1. Technology Update TSAG Meeting 3/11/04

  2. Reminders • CENIC (Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California) • 4CNET is being phased out. (our current Backbone Connection) • Coming up real soon… • Transfer will be performed during working hours. • Reminder: IPX and Appletalk being phased out Friday June 4 2004 (Last day of academic year)

  3. Administrative Policies • Use of Campus Accounts for E-mail • Endorsed by ATC • Approved by the Cabinet and Provost Council • Disk-Storage Quotas • Endorsed by ATC • Under review by the Cabinet and Provost Council • Internet Service Devices • Working defacto policy • Under reviewed by ATC

  4. Email Quotas are being Applied • Enforcement is underway for: • Over quota == No E-mail! • Faculty/Staff maximum email storage limits: • 200 MB by March 15, 2004 • 100 MB by April 15, 2004 • Yearly review of quotas by ATC is Complete • Faculty/Staff: 100MB [120MB provisioned] (was 30MB) • Students: 10MB [ 12MB provisioned] (was 5MB) • 100MB == 4,093 average sized e-mail messages (25K)

  5. Telnet & FTP Phase out • Next Step in Tighten-up the Network Perimeter • Goal: Block all “inbound” network connections to Telnet and FTP servers from the Internet • FTP/Telnet phase out: April 15, 2004 Exceptions: • suncat.csun.edu: public access to the Library’s on-line catalog • ftp.csun.edu: anonymous ftp server (no password logins starting on Oct 15, 2004) • csun1.csun.edu: phase out on Oct 15, 2004 • Users WILL be able to use the telnet and ftp from their desktops to access servers located on the Internet!

  6. Password Expiration

  7. Spam: An ever growing problem! • Steps in progress: • Updating anti-spam tagging (SpamAssassin) • Incorporating Black Lists (https://www.csun.edu/~itrsec) • SBL - Spamhaus Block List • CBL - Composite Blocking List • NJABL - Not Just Another Bogus List • Need to be concerned about False Positives • Bottom line: • Users must decide what is spam and what is not! • Local Tech support is needed to help users to • Setup filters via Webmail • Utilize antispam features of e-mail clients

  8. AntiSpam Tags Available • Users can configure Server or Client Side filters • Available Tags: • X-Spam-Flag: YES (Webmail has filter option!) • X-Junkmail: YES • X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=5.6 … • X-Spam-Report: * … • X-Spam-Level:***** • Users need to set personalized filters. Why? false positives! • TSAG members need to provide support to local users.

  9. Universal Drive • Udrive Available to all User • Released to TSAG summer ‘03 • Released to ECS fall ‘03 • Formal Announcement Coming • Allows users to use “Drag and Drop” for web page publishing • Active Directory GPO to automatically map for all users • MS users: \\udrive\<uid>, e.g., \\udrive\tsag • Mac users: smb://smb.csun.edu/tsag

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