Agenda for 8/12/05 ICC Meeting:

1. Report from the chairman
• New members: as needed... Marcus Cathey is leaving Agronomy and Microbiology and Cell Science for UF Law School. John Sawyer
is leaving IFAS IT/SA on August 16th to become part of the UF Security Team at CNS.
• Please check the ICC member site for errors of omission or commission
• Recap since last meeting...
2. Progress on standing issues:
• Microsoft contract support for IFAS
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• Review of our anti-SPAM methodologies.
• Status of ICC and ITPAC recommendations on standardizing IFAS e-mail addresses. Data available.
• In need of administrative action: hire/fire procedures, "network managed by", FTE for UFAD, methods for end user maintenance/other informational notifications from IT
• Office install point documentation status and the ITPAC recommendation on Changing IFAS IT e-mail client support
• Proposal for migrating all IFAS subnets to private IPs
• Status of Remedy trouble ticket system for IFAS: e-mail notifications not working in all cases; some tickets languishing in the queue
• Contact and services documentation--the continuing saga
• Using Outlook/Exchange capabilites for handling ICC business...e.g.: Organize Meetings with Outlook
• Proposal to upgrade all of IFAS to Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2003 Server by Dec. 31, 2005
• The wallplate
• Moving all IFAS machines and printers to DHCP from static addressing-who handles DHCP requests and how can OUadmins monitor that server
• Wireless options for the remote sites
3. Report from the IT Infostructure Task Force 2005:
• Joe Spooner: on vacation but still reporting
4. Report from the AD Committee:
• George Bryan, UF Active Directory Project Lead: update on how things are going at UFAD (if available)
• Kevin Hill, chairman: AD report as needed
• Chris Hughes, AD Lead: progress report
• Chris Hughes: Status of mail-enabling all IFAS users
• Chris Hughes: OU Admin account usage demo
5. Report from the Network Security Committee
• John Sawyer: plans for re-enabling Windows firewall for IFAS
• Chris Hughes: Access to results from the machine startup-script changes
• Chris Hughes: ePO reorg and exclusion lists
6. Report(s) from IT/SA
• John Sawyer: status of new VPN server (if-srv-isa.ad.ufl.edu)
• Chris Hughes: MOM status
• Chris Leopold: upcoming website support changes; halting Front Page Extensions support?
• Chris Leopold: funding model for IFAS fileserver replacement
• Chris Leopold: the roles of the HelpDesk and the IFAS Remedy system in accessing IT/SA support
• Chris Leopold: removing Appletalk and IPX protocols from all IFAS subnets
7. Other Discussion
• Your input is welcomed...