ICC Meeting:

IFAS COMPUTER COORDINATORS (ICC)

DECEMBER 13th 2019 REGULAR MEETING

A meeting of the ICC was held on Friday, December 13th, 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: Wendy Williams, Dewayne Hyatt, Wayne Hyde, Angelo Daniels, John Wells, Marvin Knewman, Kevin Hill, Chris Leopold, Joel Parlin, Philip Lazenby, Karen Porter, Andrew Carey, Scott Owens, Lee Thrasher, Javier Herrera, Marion Douglas, Joe Gasper, Jorge Hernandez, Jonathon Chirino, Raichel White, David Depatie, Russell Hunter, John Macias, Brian Hurt, James Canter.

On-site participants: Jimmy Anuszewski, Alan Yang, Dennis Brown, Marcus DiLorenzo, Dan Cromer, Wendy Williams, Lawrence Hua, Francis Ferguson, Joe Gasper, Dewayne Hyatt, Umar Javed

Recorded Video: Video will be available here.

NOTES:

Alan Yang and Umar Javed should be commended for their food/drink accomodations.

Report from the chairman

Member news: Nothing new to report.

Patching updates... (previous discussion)

Microsoft

December's Microsoft patches are stil listed in the link. A listing of all security updates can be found here.

There were several Microsoft Office updates to the Apple version, as recently as 12/10/19. Please run AutoUpdater to install those updates. For info on other Microsoft updates for Macs, click here.

Also, if you are using OneDrive on your Mac, you may have to manually update to the latest version. (12/10/19)

Adobe

Flash, Acrobat, Reader, Connect, along with several other Adobe products, have updates here. Last updates were December 10th.

On the subject of Adobe, creating a package is indeed not working anymore. Until they allow it to be active, you will have to create an Adobe account for each user.

Java

Java updates were in October 15th for Java 8U231, for all major platforms. Release notes can be found here .

Apple

There have been several Apple updates (December 11th), including a new system (Catalina), security updates and printer driver updates. This includes High Sierra, Sierra and Mojave, along with iOS updates. iOS 13 was also released.

SAS

SAS University Edition recently had an update. Please visit this link. SAS Renewal is also upon us.

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 9/25/2019) 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)

UF currently has a committee to discuss the new branding and this includes a new web design, which will be T4, WP and static friendly. For more information, you can join the Team here.

Updates as available.

Last month's IT@UF Meeting Notes

You can now view the notes from each meeting at this link .The next meeting will be held on Thursday, December 19th at 9am.

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 met on Monday, October 15th. The group agreed with recommended policies and will present them to Dr.Payne for final approval.

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

Projects

Please keep in mind that if you would like a TEAMs demostration, Joe and DeWayne are available to do so. Email either of them for more information.

ICC Retreat

Lon Vance & Jimmy Anuszewski went to the TREEO Center on December 12th to examine the projectors and determine what will be needed.

We also need to start coming up with some dates for the Spring retreat!

Operations

IFAS IT Updates (previous discussion)

There are several topics that need to be discussed:

- Office 365 migration status

- IFAS Logon scripts location change

- MyIT team has reached out to us for feedback on Cherwell, and we need the ICC to provide constructive feedback.

Chris would like to discuss Windows 7 & 8 (8.1) OS's that are on the system right now. ( Microsoft Support)

Andrew, Joe and Chris have had some meetings with UF IT in regards to the UF@IT meeting that was previously mentioned. Andrew will give us an update if he hasn't already done so.

Do we have any SAIC updates?