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<h1>Staff Activities and Schools for Week of 2007/03/03</h1>
<strong>[UofC Week 10 of Winter quarter]</strong>

Monday 03/05 was a CPS holiday
Wednesday 03/07 was a CPS half day for P.D.
<h2>School Hours Summary</h2>
<ul>
	<li>Fiske Tues 4:00, weds. 3:00, total 7:00</li>
	<li>Murray Fri email and online work, 45 min</li>
	<li>Ray Weds. 20 min meeting, Thurs 30 min email, Fri meeting and onsite work 2:45, total 3:35</li>
	<li>Till Weds. 15 min email, 15 min onsite</li>
	<li>Woodlawn Thurs 2:30</li>
	<li>Woodson Tues, Weds inconclusive drop-ins.</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Status on previously deferred items, ongoing projects, and specific to-do’s</h2>
<ul>
	<li>Find out (casually) what the OTS stand is on personal laptops brought into the school and put on the network. Do they have to be given full remediation treatment? Is it any different in the case of wireless?
<ul>
	<li>Not done</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Exercise the option to request quasi-INSTR delegation at a target school, probably Fermi.
<ul>
	<li>Not done</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>At ENTR, in Alex Rhodan's room, see if the computer we were using as fileserver during the summer is <em>still</em> set up as a server.  If so, copy the XP ghost images to our portable HDD, and use to reimage that computer as student station with XP.
<ul>
	<li>not done</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Check CWD server USB backup drive
<ul>
	<li>Yes, it's okay.</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Ray website redesign: Clarify Template issues with Dawei, in advance of Friday meeting with Gabe.
<ul>
	<li>Done in person when we both dropped in at her classroom after school Wednesday (early dismissal).</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>DNS settings update for office computers. Check with Julia.
<ul>
	<li>not done</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>WP standalones, upgrade to 2.1. Previous week: “Deferred again. Now get 2.1.1″ .Last week: WP declared 2.1.1 “dangerous”. Now get 2.1.2.
<ul>
	<li>Not done</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Carried forward: Techwiki entries for
<ul>
	<li>INSTR updates from legacy SI, part I, how to get from SI to file: this entry exsts, add note about not trusting floppies, use thumbdrive or direct upload to server</li>
	<li>INSTR updates from legacy SI, part II, what to do with the file — stub only in place, take from email sent to Bryan</li>
	<li>Power-on passwords and Setup Admin Passwords: take from email with Jimmy and Linda Sudduth</li>
	<li>Added to this to-do list: the CPSWIRELESS notes</li>
	<li><strong>Still carried forward</strong></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Longer-term plans, noted pro-forma, progress not particularly expected in any given week</h3>
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<ul>
	<li>Carried forward:: Installation and tryout of Retrospect for desktop backups in CUIP lab, using WD NetCenter Drive
<ul>
	<li>Brought in my own copy of the CD (the office copy is misplaced)</li>
</ul>
<ul>
	<li>Did not install. Try again next week.</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Deferred longer term: Trial installation of Skeletonz CMS or other CMS. Last week: –Still deferred.</li>
	<li>Waiting for spring break or summer: look into "Google Apps for Domains" [as it is no longer called]</li>
</ul>
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<h2>To-do items added this week for next, or new continuing projects</h2>
<ul>
	<li>Woodson -- get back in touch with Mr Spearman, do the server upgrade</li>
	<li>Murray -- Tuesday morning, see Joe Mills about user profiles and Lyceum options</li>
	<li>Till -- RC installation automation (look at Fiske GPO logonscript for a regedit example)</li>
	<li>WIT server
<ul>
	<li>Continue space reclamation -- move web logs</li>
	<li>Look into different backup options -- the onboard copying is what uses up space so quickly</li>
	<li>Start on Apache 2 / PHP 5 installation</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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<h2>This week’s activity not at or for a specific school</h2>
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<h3>CUIP Team Building</h3>
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<h3>Educational Computing Community</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Lively brief discussion on compteach@lists.cuip.net about lab monitoring / management software packages (Hi-Class, LANStar, LANSchool).</li>
</ul>
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<h3>eCUIP</h3>
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<h3>Chicago Web Docent</h3>
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<h3>CUIP Office — Facility and Computing</h3>
<ul>
	<li>We made a lot of progress in squaring away storeroom.  The remaining detritus makes it look like we're still facing major disorder, but that's misleading; only odds-n-ends are still in the office awaiting disposition.</li>
	<li>Mostly done setting up spare NSIT Dell with XP as loaner for Christie.  Video and network drivers now okay, sound needs something, and software will be left for her to pick out / install.</li>
</ul>
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<h3>CUIP Servers</h3>
<ul>
	<li>    Space problem in /var on WIT server.  Started some reclamation.</li>
</ul>
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<h2>This week’s activity at or for specific schools</h2>
<h3>Fiske</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Tuesday  3/06  for 4:00.</li>
	<li>Checked  at library; Ms.  Richards was absent today but she was logged in; Follett ran fine.   I suspiciously thought  "Well, somebody rebooted it [fiske-srv01] earlier"  but the logs didn't seem to say so, and  Mr. Miller said not.  So maybe it is behaving better.</li>
	<li> I installed a slew (that's 62) of Windows Updates for srv01, and rebooted.  It still has a red mark on the Compliance Scanner page because Service Pack 1 has not been installed.  Update was skipping that because of shortage of space on C: drive.  I moved some things out of C: but there still wasn't enough space.  Did a manula download of SP1 installer (to D: drive) in case it's only the storage space for that which creates the problem.  [Writing this during download.]</li>
	<li>On the compliance page I noted some misnamed workstations, furthermore sharing a Description field.  I think these were from Ghosting and didn't get the rename wizard treatment.  Erik and I discussed this, will also show Peter.  If the wizard is not working, there is the trick of changing the letter at the end of the Unisys-asset-tag-based name.</li>
	<li>There is one computer, in 202, where DF has been installed as a standalone.  We tried some likely passwords but none worked.  Erik will get in touch with Gabe Skerrit about the password and about getting a console installed.</li>
	<li>Last thing Tuesday (as Progressive Learning was kicking me out!) I deleted too much in trying to free up C: space on srv01 to enable installing Service Pack, left it in a medium-bad state: shares are okay so the functionality it is used for (mostly Follett) is satisfactory, but nobody logging in to the console or via Remote Desktop actually gets a desktop!  So management of the server would be problematic.</li>
	<li>Wednesday, with Erik, for 3:00.</li>
	<li>We met with Mr. Miller to discuss his request to turn off the individual student logins.  Interestingly, his objection was not one that we had anticipated.  He has the students log off by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Delete, and if they proceed hurriedly they tend to lock the computer instead.  We suggested changing the logoff procedure to use the Start button ... which still has an undesirable default action (shut down, or on some, reboot), but recoverable with less teacher attention than Lock.  Also he was swayed by the point that if all students use the same login, their files will be vulnerable to copying or defacing by troublemakers.</li>
	<li>I was able to fix the damage I had done the day before to srv01, by using the Windows Server 2003 OS Installer CD, choosing the Repair options.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Mollison</h3>
<ul>
	<li> Thursday, online -- looked up admin email address in db of Ms Bradley's blog, so that Russ can help her with forgotten password routine.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Murray</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Trying to get Podpress working in Lyceum.  As a per-blog plugin, it says it activates but the expectedfeatures are not added.  As a system plugin it breaks the portal page and some admin controls!  Ay!  So I spent a while in the database repairing that damage.</li>
	<li>Will make a separate copy of the Murrayblogs to experiment with safely.  Joe and I will probably try it out next Tuesday.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Ray</h3>
<ul>
	<li>  Weds. 3/7, brief meeting with Dawei and Gabe.  Mostly about how to  prep for Friday's work session. But also we clarified about the use of Dreamweaver templates and tools.</li>
	<li>Thurs 3/8 email with Gabe and Erik, 20 min.</li>
	<li>Fri 3/9, for 2:45, meeting  and work session on the website.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Shoesmith</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Fri., 40 minutes online work, setting up domain and vhost for shoesmithblogs.cuip.net</li>
</ul>
<h3>Till</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Weds., email 20 min and onsite 20 min with Linda,  INSTR student account updates.  As her email said, there was something wrong with the SI file she obtained this morning.  But she had one a week old,  and she used that one successfully, with just minimal coaching to correct/augment her notes.</li>
	<li>To do: sit in the Primary lab and experiment with how to install reading counts so it will work for different user logins.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Woodlawn</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Thursday for 2:30.  Dealt with the two infected computers Mischa identified in Ms Hamilton's room (110).  Tried some  simpler measures before (I mean instead of, for now) doing a full OS  re-install.  Removing the suspicious files from top level of C: drive may have done the trick.  Also downloaded from Lavasoft the still-free Ad-Aware SE Personal and ran that.  The IBM needed to be removed from and re-joined to INSTR.  Ms. Johnson will check them Friday or Monday and we'll see if  this has held, or else go for the more radical solution.</li>
	<li>The Location-Based Printing setup for that room was already in place, but the description field for one of the  Compaqs needed adjusting.  At the end of the day all three computers were printing to the local HP (under Primary3680  login).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Woodson</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Tuesday 03/06, weds 3/07, dropped in but didn't find Mr Spearman</li>
</ul>
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