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Meeting Notes for Febuary 3, 2005

 Announcements
  • Possible Veritas Backup Exec training opportunity on campus. Cost would be approximately $1,800 per individual. Contact Russ Mohn if interested. (russell.mohn@asu.edu)
  • Jack Hsu indicated Microsoft will be performing the ASU Active Directory Health Check-up next week
  • Jack Hsu reported several individuals are having problems with VPN from home when going through a router. Systems are being assigned 192.168.1.100 as their IP address. The following was recommended: use 192.168 as first two octets but replace last two octets with the last four digits of the individuals ID number. For example if last four digits of ID are 9876 change the IP address to 192.168.98.76. Information along with instructions may be on the web site soon.

Feature Presentation
  • Microsoft Campus Agreement
    By Dennis Denzler, ASU Computer Store (dennis@asu.edu)
    • Final pricing is currently in the works
    • FTE count based on HR database
    • Will include the same products as last year, including: XP Professional, Office, FrontPage, Publisher, SMS CAL, Exchange CAL
    • Mac Office version will include Virtual PC. Unclear about licensing for Windows OS for Virtual PC. Tyler Farmer will be here at next WNUG/CCC meeting and will be talking about Virtual PC and licensing
    • It is possible to include Windows 2003 as part of the agreement
    • Work At Home will continue and will be updated to reflect new dates
    • Several individuals suggested that it would be beneficial to have a web site containing the campus agreement information. Dennis recommends going to www.microsoft.com/license for all the details and will send Karra ASU’s options for posting on the WNUG web site, located at http://www.asu.edu/it/ag/wnug/

  • Site/Classroom Deployment, Group Policy and AFS/Kerberos
    By Bert Valenzuela, ASU at East Campus Academic Computing Team (valenzuela@asu.edu)
    Bert is responsible for computing sites and classrooms, including multi-media, faculty requests and Windows build. Several handouts were available at the meeting and Bert will make available on the WNUG web site. He will also be updating the documentation on Creating Group Policies. Main tools Bert uses for managing his Windows based sites are Group Policies and Deep Freeze.


    • Group Policy (GP)
      • Benefits = Management, Security, Application Deployment
      • Documentation
        • www.microsoft.com/grouppolicy
        • GP Management Console – several new settings in new version
        • GP Reports
      • Tips, Tricks, Suggestions
        • Use OUs for applying different GPs – all computers in OU will have GP applied
        • Develop a naming convention to easily recognize policy & its function
        • Test before putting into production. Test environment = tasurite.tad.asu.edu
        • Keep track of which domain controller you are on in case of replication issues
        • Use event logs
      • Loopback Processing
        • Enable Loopback Processing. Can not apply policy to user because users work in multiple locations
        • Computer Configuration | Administrative Templates | System | Group Policy
          • Enable Loopback Processing – Replace mode
          • Scripts – apply synchronously
      • GP Permissions
        • Add Domain Computers and Authenticated Users with Read & Apply Policy permission
        • Remove Enterprise Admins & any others you do not want
      • GP Troubleshooting
        • Event Viewer
        • GP Management Console reports
        • Log files
        • Gpotool – sync tool
        • Microsoft web site. Download the white paper on Troubleshooting Group Policies
      • Deploying applications
        • Use GPO to indicate what applications are to be deployed
        • Schedules at night to install and then uses Deep Freeze to reboot
        • KeyServer used to track licenses
        • Use of msi packages
        • Assign instead of publish so application is installed
        • Microsoft Transform files (mst) – customize msi packages by modifying its properties
        • Bert will be editing document and making it available

    • OpenAFS, XP SP2 & Kerberos
      • Authentication issue. Microsoft working on possible solution (per Jack’s report, this is a permissions issue).
      • Recommends adding FQDN of all servers in trusted sites
      • File Services Project


   
  Updated February 8, 2005