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CITES: Visions, not Hallucinations
This talk is intended as a welcome and opportunity to set the context for CITES' future. Following the maxim "visions without actions are just hallucinations," this presentation will focus on some upcoming and proposed actions and stress the importance of collaborations and partnerships. |
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Draft Roadmap for Storage/Backup Services
At last Spring's CCSP day, representatives from the Storage/Backup Services Roadmap working group solicited your feedback on what you felt should be addressed in a campus strategic roadmap for data storage and backup services.
The roadmap is currently in draft (AKA "version 0.1") form. In this session, we'll briefly touch on the roadmap process, past and future, then discuss the roadmap's key points with you all. Our goal is to get your input on the draft
-- tell us what's right, what's wrong, what it's missing, and your thoughts on how to proceed. |
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Mac + Parallels = Multi-OS Lab
GSLIS is in the process of deploying a Macintosh student laboratory. By using Parallels in OSX, we are able to offer support for Mac, Windows, and Linux computing environments. This session will focus on system requirements, imaging systems, software deployment, and extra capabilities this system will allow, including sharing of file spaces, common authentication through all operating systems, and classroom testbeds for classes which require students to install software.
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Iris Port Security for HP Switches/Campus Network Upgrade Update
Port Security or the ability to lock down a MAC address or a set of Mac addresses to a switch port has been the number one feature request for Iris for the past year. Please come see the demo on Port Security for HP switches with the new global navigation that allows better access to MAC address search. Other improved features include the error log results and the MAC address page.
We are a little less than two years into the five-year Campus Network Upgrade project. How is it going? What lessons have been learned? Will the project be finished by the end of 2009? Is there enough money allocated to finish the project? When will you get better connectivity in your building? Is it too early to start planning for the next Network Upgrade? Those are lots of good questions. Lots of good answers will be provided by CITES director of Network Communications Mike Smeltzer. |
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Uniting Trends that May Impact UIUC Communications Futures
It is generally recognized that the next generation of technology on campus will involve convergence using IP technology in some way. Some campuses will migrate faster than others, but technology trends will tend to unite systems and communications in the long term. How will technologies and applications that will be emerging in five years impact the investment decisions we must make today?
Mr. Beidelman will review and forecast technology changes that are today just developing and discuss how voice, data, and video technologies will be impacted by these developments over the coming decade. Attendees will better understand what types of technologies will likely require support in the future and how today’s investment strategies can be aligned to support the coming advances with suggested ways to plan for this evolution. |
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Business Objects – Upgrades are coming, what is the impact to my systems?
The University of Illinois is currently using Business Objects version 6.5.1 for EDDIE and desktop reporting. A service pack update will be installed soon (November 2006) which will have an impact on the desktops of Business Objects users. This presentation will describe the effect of this impact and how the local administrators will be able to prepare for it. Decision Support will soon begin an upgrade project for Business Objects XI Release 2 with an anticipated implementation in Fall 2007. This presentation will also describe the overall effect this major release will have on our environment.
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PDA & Smartphones – Campus Use & Support - Panel Discussion
PDAs, smartphones, Blackberries and other handheld devices have gained popularity and utility for VIPs, and campus support professionals have responded to that need. As data plans and the devices themselves decrease in cost, they’ll see wider use by the general university population of undergraduate and graduate students. This has implications for support professionals, help desks and campus webmasters.
This panel discussion draws together the deployment and support experiences of campus support professionals and CITES efforts to stay ahead of the curve through device testing, documentation and collaboration with campus support professionals.
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What’s New with UIUCnet Wireless?
Hundreds of Meru access points are now up and running across campus. Is Meru the path to wireless Nirvana? There is a new 96-foot tower on South Race Street that helps create a wireless backbone for the South Farms. What will cows do with connectivity? Anyone with a UIUC NetID can now create “personally sponsored Guest accounts” for access to UIUCnet Wireless. How well is that working? The pilot sites for Visitor Wireless are about to turn up that service for members of the general public. What will that mean? And coming soon to a micro-cell by you – Verizon Wireless is investing in their cellular infrastructure on campus. This session will update attendees on all things wireless at UIUC. |
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Easy Writing, Simple Publishing: Teaching and Collaboration With Blogs and Wikis
The noble pedagogical goals of teaching a writing-intensive class are always in conflict with the workload. However, student blogs can help courses of all sizes become writing-intensive without an unreasonable grading workload, by implementing blogging with a system of online peer review. In addition, assignments incorporating multimedia blogging can catalyze student enthusiasm and involvement. Wikis are the perfect collaboration medium, allowing two or more authors to vastly improve upon the previous multi-authoring paradigm of passing hard copy and word processing files back and forth. This session will detail early uses of blogs and wikis for teaching, highlight benefits and challenges, and demonstrate methods for incorporating blogs and wikis into other online Web sites and learning systems.
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Security Enhancements in Microsoft Vista
Microsoft Vista brings with it a wealth of new features designed to enhance the security of both the operating system and the applications it supports. This presentation will review these and discuss how some of these features will change not only the campus computing environment but the end-user experience as well. The experiences of those campus users that have been testing Vista beta releases will also be discussed. This will be an interactive presentation involving dialog with the audience on their own experiences with Vista and any anticipated impact.
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UNIX Sysadmin Tuning
We're all familiar with tweaking a particular system to make it
perform better. Why not tweak *how* you administer your systems?
This session will focus on discussing tools and services to make administration of UNIX and Unix-like systems at UIUC easier. The hosts will present a quick overview of the policies and procedures they currently use, as well as what they hope to use in the near future. Come discuss what works for you, what doesn't, and what you'd find useful. |
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Help Us Help You - IT Professional Services Update and Call for Input
To better address the support needs of campus IT professionals, CITES is proposing to develop a framework of new services for Information Technology Professionals (ITPros). To develop an appropriate support plan and allocate resources, CITES is actively seeking input from campus IT Professionals. The goals of this CCSP session are to:
provide an update on the status of the new IT Professional Services group; outline some starting points for discussion and; collect feedback from the audience regarding the scope of services that are most needed and to identify effective service delivery methods.
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