Agenda for 1/18/05 ICC Meeting:

1. Report from the chairman
• New members: Ryan Mills, Department of Agricultural Education and Communication, Stephen Reese, Food and Resource Economics and Allen Bond, West Florida REC.
• Recap since last meeting...
• A visit with Joe Joyce: Understanding the IFAS IT budget...
  (suggested background reading: Patterns and Practices of Financial Management -- one of the Service Management Functions of the Microsoft Operations Framework.)
2. Progress on standing issues:
• In need of administrative action: Provisioning all Gatorlink users, display name, incomplete GAL, hire/fire procedures, "network managed by", and FTE for UFAD
• Office Administrative Install Point vs. Local Installation discussion
• Methods for end user maintenance and other informational notifications from IT
• Should IFAS-ALL be restricted as to who may post?
• Status of Remedy trouble ticket system for IFAS
• Status of new hire for ITSA
• Making the ICC security group a distribution list...
• The IFAS IT Charter committee: planning around an ITIL framework...(see also: ITIL overview)
3. Report from the AD Committee:
• Kevin Hill, chairman: AD general status report
• Chris Hughes, AD Lead: progress report
4. Report from the Network Security Committee
• John Sawyer: Security status report.
• John Sawyer: ITAC-NI Request for Comment on CNS responsibilities for providing core network services.
5. Report(s) from IT/NS
• Chris Hughes: Weekly meetings to plan, develop, and document IT/SA services.
• Chris Hughes: UF L2TP IPSec VPN for IFAS.
• Chris Hughes: Proposal to move all IFAS machines and printers to DHCP from static addressing.
• Chris Hughes: Proposal to upgrade all of IFAS to Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2003 Server by June 1, 2005
• Increased security
• Increased reliability
• Increased productivity
• Ability to be managed consistently with GPOs and scripts
• 2K/XP needed for file share reorganization needed for DFS and access via Webdav
• Single platform for releases (VPN, Office 2003, RPC/HTTP)
• What is needed? (Hardware? RIS? Labor?)
• Dwight Jesseman: Exchange status
6. Other Discussion
• Your input is welcomed...