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IFAS COMPUTER COORDINATORS (ICC)

AUGUST 9th 2019 REGULAR MEETING


A meeting of the ICC was held on Friday, August 9th, 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, Angel Perez, David Rutherford, Lee Chaffin and Crystal Norton

Recorded Video: Video will be available here.


NOTES:

Alan Yang and Umar Javed should be commended for their food/drink accomodations. I would also like to offer my condolences to Rob Daffron...it was announced that Taylor Switft is engaged.


Report from the chairman

Member news: Nothing new to report.

Details about this meeting:

We have special guests from Zeno that are here to discuss PrintSmart operations with us. Crystal, David and Lee both offered an explanation of the updated Printsmart contract that is now with Zeno, along with offereing service information and on-boarding information.


Patching updates... (previous discussion)

Microsoft

August'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 7/16/19. 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. (7/30/19)

Adobe

Flash, Acrobat, Reader, Connect, along with several other Adobe products, have updates here. Last updates were July 9th.

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 July 16th for Java 8U221, for all major platforms. Release notes can be found here. 

Apple

There have been several Apple updates (August 1st), 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 6/21/2019) SfB for both major OS's should automagically update.

Zoom updates are available, either through Software Center or through Zoom directly. This is especially important if you're users have a Mac with Zoom.

 


Policy


Content Management System (CMS) (previous discussion)

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 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

I have gathered 2 large auditorium-sized projectors and a standard classroom projector for the TREEO center. If you have any experience with a Miracast type of system, please let me know. It has to be versatile, meaning it will work with a variety of OS's. For those of you that expressed interest in helping, please shoot me an email and I'll put together a small task force to help get everything installed and updated.


Operations


IFAS IT Updates (previous discussion)

DeWayne and Joe have been busy with Teams demos, which I'll let them discuss.

Chris added: Dewayne and Joe are going to present at Educause in Chicago (@ Microsoft invitation) - EDUCAUSE, is a higher education information technology association Dell leases are all paid. So, we have $$$ for remote hardware. (..and yes there will be remote hardware deployed..) Skype for Business (for Telco phones) is dead ICT is moving everyone to Jabber ABE moved their AgroClimate servers into the B120 Datacenter.

Do we have any SAIC updates?

 


Other Topics

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That's All Folks!

The meeting was adjourned at 10:54am. Our next meeting will be September 13th!!!