(Audio recording is available)
Reminder: ISG is running an interactive educational campaign through October, with a ‘Don’t Be the Fall Guy’ theme. Look for the safety signs as they move to different locations across campus and report their location online for a chance at winning an iPod and other prizes.
SAS 9.2 for Windows has just been made available. There is a short time to upgrade before 9.1 expires.
Updates for Acrobat Pro will be released by CIS soon; there have been many vulnerabilities patched recently but it takes time to package these with proper Key Server modifications.
Chris Grossi (CIS) presented an extensive update on the Google Migration project. His full slide deck is available for download.
Highlights:
- All active users are now moved off Exchange. The Exchange server will likely be shut down in early November. Some users have been moved to Google without yet opting in and will no longer receive new mail in the Exchange environment. (These are mostly people who rarely or never check email.) These users will need to contact CIS Help Desk when they want to enable their Google password and continue to access their mail.
- People continuing to use Outlook to access old PSTs without migrating to new user profiles or GASMO will need to switch Outlook to ‘offline’ mode after the Exchange server is shut down to continue accessing Outlook, or create a new profile connected to their PSTs without attempting to get new mail from the obsolete Exchange server.
- The MX record for Brown is planned to be moved to Google at the end of December. With this change Brown will be able to shut down its Proofpoint services in favor of anti-spam/anti-malware services at Google. CIS will continue to run a raw local SMTP server to handle automated message sending from reporting systems and dumb devices, but this will likely require registration of known connections that will need to continue to use it. Contact John Spadaro with questions.
- Currently Gmail allows 25MB messages (including attachments), but Proofpoint constrains message size to 15MB instead. After the move of our MX records and decommissioning of Proofpoint, messages will be able to be the full 25MB that Google supports.
- Exchange-enabled AD groups have been converted to Google Groups, more managers of these groups need to be identified. Management of groups can be delegated as needed to department IT or admin staff, contact Computing Accounts & Passwords (CAP) for more information.
Stephanie Obodda and Ken DeBlois spoke at length to present the emerging Brown IT Service Catalog, which has undergone some substantial usability testing and is close to being released.
