ICC Meeting:

IFAS COMPUTER COORDINATORS (ICC)

JANUARY 12th 2018 REGULAR MEETING

A meeting of the ICC was held on Friday, January 12th, 2018 in the IFAS Administration building, 89, Room 109. The meeting was chaired and called to order by Jimmy Anuszewski at about 10:01 am.

PRESENT: Twenty-three members participated.

Remote participants: Phil Lazenby, Dewayne Hyatt, Angelo Daniels, Raichel White, David Depatie, Al Ibanez, Andrew Carey, Jonathan Chirino, Kevin Hill, Horacio Elman, John Macias, Wayne Hyde, Joel Parlin, Scott Owens, Lee Thrasher, Joe Gasper, Angel Perez (Rivera), Bill Black, Marvin Newman, Wei Cao, Lawrence Treadaway, Javier G. Herrera, Javier Real, Daniel Solano, Chris Leopold, Brian Hurt.

On-site participants: Jimmy Anuszewski, Dennis Brown, Megz Keathley, Marcus Dilorenzo, Dan Cromer

STREAMING AUDIO: The audio will available here.

Recorded Video: Video will be available here. Chat transcript is available here.

NOTES:

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

Report from the chairman

Member news: Was a quiet winter break.

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. Be on the lookout for a new site within the coming months.

Patching updates... (previous discussion)

Obviously, with the threats of Spectre and Meltdown, please continue to update your computers as time allows. Also be aware that Microsoft has issued statements that some computers are having slowdown issues, blue screen issues, etc. These are all case-by-case.

Microsoft

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

There were several Microsoft Office updates to the Apple version, as recently as 12/12/17. Please run AutoUpdater to install those updates.

Adobe

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

Java

Java updates were in October for Java 8U151, for all major platforms. Release notes can be found here. Java 9 is now available. You can download it here.

Apple

There have been several Apple updates (December 6th), including a new system update, security updates and printer driver updates. This includes High Sierra, in case your users haven't upgraded yet. Apple has already issued patches concerning the Intel chip problem, this includes OS X and iOS.

SAS

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

JMP

JMP 13 is now available through the UF Software Licensing Division.

Sigmaplot

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

Videoconferencing and WAN discussion

Videoconferencing topics (previous discussion)

Patrick Pettus made it known that Cisco's replacement of Acano is now fully implemented. The ICC list mentioned that everyone is using either SfB or Zoom and didn't see the need to add a third option, as it confuses our clients and seems to be redundant.

Skype Business for Mac has updates that should install using your Microsoft Autoupdater.

Policy

Content Management System (CMS) (previous discussion)

There have been no changes to IFAS/T4, though it seems that ICS has become open to template changes.

Updates as available.

Last month's IT@UF Meeting Notes

You can now view the notes from each meeting at this link. This past month's meeting was cancelled.

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 is still setting up a meeting to go over policies. I will update that as it comes along.

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.

Operations

IFAS IT Updates (previous discussion)

DeWayne will continue our Windows Insiders series.

Currently, we have heard that the UF Microsoft group has sidelined Microsoft Teams. We will provide updates as they come along.

Other Topics

IFAS IT Updates

Technically Speaking and Peer2Peer are both coming up this Spring. We hope to have an announcement very soon on the approval or rejection of Mark Minasi providing a 2-day, hands-on seminar. As most of you know, he is now retired but lives close to Gainesville. He offered to come to UF and provide us an interactive 2-day session with PS and integrating it with our work environment. If it is approved, we will host his seminar in late February.

Peer2Peer is scheduled for Mid-March and will have multiple topics ranging from Endpoint Management, Web Dev (including disability access), HR and CIO interaction.

The meeting was adjourned at 11:08. The next meeting will take place February 9th!!