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IFAS COMPUTER COORDINATORS (ICC)

JANUARY 11th 2019 REGULAR MEETING


A meeting of the ICC was held on Friday, January 11th, 2019 at the IFAS Administration building, 89, Room 109. The meeting was chaired and called to order by Jimmy Anuszewski at about 10:04 am.

PRESENT: Twenty-three members participated.

Remote participants: Al Ibanez, David Loyd, David DePatie, Jonathan Chirino, Kevin Hill, Angel Perez, Tom Barnash, DeWayne Hyatt, Wayne Hyde, Lee Thrasher, Joel Parlin, Scott Owens, Andrew Carey, Marvin Newman, Joe Gasper, John Macias, Javier Herrera, Angelo Daniels, Russell Hunter,  Andrew Carey, Rob Daffron, Marion Douglas, Jorge Hernandez, Al Ibanez, Karen Porter, Lawrence Treadaway Chris Leopold.


On-site participants:
Jimmy Anuszewski, Dennis Brown, Alan Yang, Umar Javed, Marcus Dilorenzo, Dan Cromer, Raichel White.

STREAMING AUDIO: The audio will available here.

Recorded Video: Video will be available here.


NOTES:

Dennis Brown should be commended for their food/drink accomodations.


Report from the chairman

Member news: No new news at this time.

Details about this meeting:

I've deleted a lot of the old anchors that were in the minutes due to lack of updates. I suggest searching the ICC site for information that you may be looking for.


Patching updates... (previous discussion)

Microsoft

January's Microsoft patches are stil listed in the link. Current risk assessments can be found here.

There were several Microsoft Office updates to the Apple version, as recently as 1/10/19. Please run AutoUpdater to install those updates.

Also, if you are using OneDrive on your Mac, you may have to manually update to the latest version. (The latest release added the online-only storage option)

Adobe

Flash, Acrobat, Reader, Connect, along with several other Adobe products, have updates here. Last updates were in January 8th.

Java

Java updates were in October for Java 8U191, for all major platforms. Release notes can be found here. 

Apple

There have been several Apple updates (December 5th), including a new system update, security updates and printer driver updates. This includes High Sierra, Sierra and Mojave, along with iOS updates.

SAS

SAS University Edition recently had an update. Please visit this link.

JMP

JMP 14 is now available through the UF Software Licensing Division. It is free.

Sigmaplot

Sigmaplot 14 is now available through the UF Software Licensing Division.

Two-Factor Authentication

Two-Factor was expected to have all current and new staff enrolled by July 1st. I haven't seen any updates on the stats.

It does seem that Cisco bought the Duo Security, so time will tell how much changes over the next 6 months to a year.

https://it.ufl.edu/two-factor

https://it.ufl.edu/two-factor/support


Videoconferencing and WAN discussion

Videoconferencing topics (previous discussion)

Skype Business for Mac has updates that should install using your Microsoft Autoupdater. (Last update was on 1/4/2019) SfB for both major OS's should automagically update.

Zoom updates are available, either through Software Center or through Zoom directly.

 


Policy


Content Management System (CMS) (previous discussion)

Nothing new, no new updates from T4 on features actually working. (No, they still don't).

Updates as available.

Last month's IT@UF Meeting Notes

You can now view the notes from each meeting at this link.

ITSA Policy and UF IT Policy

I've found it difficult to find the ITSA Computing Policy and the UF IT Policies, so I will provide the links here and keep them here.

ITSA - http://imm.ifas.ufl.edu

UF IT - http://www.it.ufl.edu/policies/

There will now be an ICC Policy Page that will keep track of policy and guidelines. These are not strict rules meant to dictate what must be done, but instead, a page of policies that are meant to help keep things running smoothly for each department and ITSA. You can find it here.

ITPAC will be meeting on Monday, October 15th. I will keep everyone posted on how the meeting goes, in regards to several policy recommendations dealing with the ICC.

Andrew Carey provided a link to fixing incorrectly named devices. You can find it here.

 


Projects


We are currently working on a new ICC site and integration of Yammer. Stay Tuned! The new site is planning on using Microsoft Teams, pending the outcome of the software policy exception being brought forth to the ITPAC members.

Teams is now closer to fruition more than ever. We'll get an update in just a minute.

ICC Retreat

The official date has been set! May 21-22 (Tues-Wed) at the Straughn Center. We are currently working on the "breakaway" sessions, guests, etc. If you woud like to volunteer to be on the Retreat Committee, please email me.


Operations


IFAS IT Updates (previous discussion)

Joe would like to discuss the upcoming PHP upgrade.

PowerShell Learning Group is still going strong. If you would like to catch up on any of the classes that you've missed, please email Andrew Carey

 


Other Topics

All Quiet...


 


That's All Folks!

The meeting was adjourned at 11:08. Our next meeting will be February 8, 2019!