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<h1> Staff Activities and Schools for Week of 2007/03/10 (Mitch)</h1>
[UofC winter quarter exam week]

[CPS testing]
<h2> School Hours Summary</h2>
<ul>
	<li>Entrepreneurship: Weds for 3:00 onsite; online to ENTR server 45 min;onsite Fri 40 min; total = 4:25</li>
	<li>Fiske Fri 1:15</li>
	<li>Murray: tues 3/13, 2:20 onsite</li>
	<li>Shoesmith: Monday 3/12 30 min online</li>
	<li>Woodlawn -- Sunday 3/11, 45 min online; Tues 3/13, 1:30 onsite, Weds. 3/14 onsite 1:20 = 3:35 total</li>
	<li>Woodson: Tues 3/13, 1 hr</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Status on previously deferred items, ongoing projects, and specific to-do’s</h2>
<ul>
	<li>    Schedule a Tech Coordinators meeting!
<ul>
	<li>Held over</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
	<li>Woodson — get back in touch with Mr Spearman, do the server upgrade
<ul>
	<li>Met and decided to confer with Dr. Arnall once again, before rushing into server upgrade</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Murray — Tuesday morning, see Joe Mills about user profiles and Lyceum  options
<ul>
	<li>We handled roaming profiles (turned them off).  Lyceum will wait for an opportunity to install the updates.</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Till — RC installation automation (look at Fiske GPO logonscript for a  regedit example)
<ul>
	<li>Held over to next week</li>
</ul>
</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
<ul>
	<li>Still working on this</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Start on Apache 2 / PHP 5 installation
<ul>
	<li>defer</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<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? Last week: Not done
<ul>
	<li>Erik had a conversation with Sandip and Gabe about this.  (Also artof it is: when and HOW to get the OTSautoupdates done, for wireless laptops  --  do they need to be kept ON overnight on Maintenance Window dates?</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Exercise the option to request quasi-INSTR delegation at a target school,  probably Fermi.  Last week: Not done
<ul>
	<li>Explored in conversation with Sandip Vashi (at ENTR).  Approved in principle.</li>
	<li>To do: request specifically in email.</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>New plan: use this as server  for the Library  to handle Athena.</li>
	<li>This is indeed what was done!</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>DNS settings update for office computers. Check with Julia.
<ul>
	<li>DONE.</li>
	<li>Now noticing -- Julia's does not have DST update :(.  Really we should upgrade the computer to W2K or XP.</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. Last week: Not done
<ul>
	<li>Did this for WIT server (blogs.cuip.net)</li>
	<li>Also did Podpress distribution on that server, but not general plugin or theme distribution.</li>
	<li>Erin will do some Interim work on these topics; continuing to select/edit themes for our standard distribution, plus help figure out how to implement the distribution, and maybe run the upgrades for second server.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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<ul>
	<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>
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<h3>Longer-term plans, noted pro-forma, progress not particularly expected in any given week</h3>
<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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<h3>To-do items added this week for next, or new continuing projects</h3>
<ul>
	<li>    Schedule a Tech Coordinators meeting!
<ul>
	<li>Held over</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>
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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>
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<h3> CUIP  Servers</h3>
<ul>
	<li>On WIT server (CUIP main server) the space used by onboard copying backup was getting out of hand. Temporarily addressed by excluding some of the largest users.</li>
	<li>DST correction:
<ul>
	<li>On www2 it was already correct</li>
	<li>On WIT and CWD, replaced the compiled zoneinfo file (using the one from www2, which was compatible)</li>
	<li>To-do Walrus</li>
	<li>To-do Ray (probably already correct, it is same vintage as www2)</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>On WIT server blogs directory (a.k.a. http://blogs.cuip.net) cleaned up many of the stray practice or script-afoul directories (and associated tables).</li>
</ul>
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<h2> This week’s activity at or for specific schools</h2>
<h3>Entrepreneurship at South Shore</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Weds 3/14 with Erik for 3:00.</li>
	<li>We ran into Sandip Vashti,  Gabriel  Sterritt, and two other desktop team members, onsite to work on the Mac systems OTS would like to get going, aiming for comparable control to what they do with Windows now.
<ul>
	<li>Interesting conversation with Sandip!  Clarified some INSTR future questions!</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Moved the Dell-desktop-made-Server-2003 from Rhodan's room to Library Office.  Did some renaming, remediation, and so forth.</li>
	<li>With Steve G. and Maryellen Conlon (librarian for Entr and Leadership combined library), installed Athena on the server, and full Athena client on her office desktop computer.  Imported the book data.</li>
	<li>Subsequently, reconnected to the server by RDC while sitting at another school multitrasking; ran further remediation and Windows Update, including  SP2 for WS2K3.</li>
	<li></li>
</ul>
<h3>Fiske</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Friday 3/16, Check-in for followup on last week's  server activity.  Follett is running fine, both servers seem okay (though older one still short on space, cannot do Service Packs)</li>
	<li>Chatted with Wilbert, to schedule  continuing server/INSTR P.D.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Leadership at South Shore</h3>
<ul>
	<li>See Entrepreneurship notes; the Library is common to both schools.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Murray</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Tues 3/13 for 2:20, met with Joe Mills about Roaming Profiles. After some frustration with trying to set permissions so he could inspect the students' profile areas on the server (much trickier than with the regular home folders for user-controlled file storage), we turned off the Roaming Profiles.</li>
	<li>The desktop-background setting script is not working, for three reasons, two of which we were able to fix. But net result, that leaves it not working.</li>
	<li>Discussed formally getting TechCo input for our summer programs, and short-term advice onschedule and topics for an upcoming techco meeting.</li>
	<li></li>
</ul>
<h3>Shoesmith</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Monday 3/12 online. Set up shoesmithblogs.cuip.net (also shoesmith.cuip.net) domain name and virtual host. Moving 3 teacher practice blogs into there.</li>
	<li>item 2</li>
</ul>
<h3>Woodlawn</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Sunday online 45 min. Tested upload methods for Gallery installation. I did not have the problems that Shaz and Carisa encountered using the Java applet; maybe paradoxically because this was from DSL instead of full Ethernet?? Otherwise, it suggests problem at the client computer. Anyway, I will try to meet with her/them at WCS and will recommend a method that separates upload and entry of the images in the Gallery system: that's the URL tab, which also works with a filepath on the server. So the technique is:
<ol>
	<li>Use SFTP to upload a big folder to the account. But preferably NOT in the Gallery or Albums area ... leave it to the program to manage those. So let's say, upload to /home/theaccount/raw-images/this-folder.</li>
	<li>In Gallery, after opening Add Pictures window, choose URL tab and enter (not strictly a URL) the on-server filepath just given, i.e. /home/theaccount/raw-images/this-folder/.</li>
	<li>After that is entered in Gallery, delete the upload folder on the server. Now we have a copy of the images on the client computer, and one on the server in the Gallery Albums area, but not the extra one on the server.</li>
</ol>
</li>
	<li>Tuesday onsite, tried out different applets for Gallery, started working with Carisa on this but she had afterschool activity</li>
	<li>Rechecked room 110 (Ms. Hamilton); the two computers in question were off the network again and showed the suspicious files. Let's do the clean full OS install then.</li>
	<li>Wednesday, Carisa's lab-teacher computer had a number of problems, all stemming from a completely filled C: drive. There wasn't even enough temp space to *move* substantial folders onto D: or elsewhere [even after setting the system TEMP and TMP environment variables], until we outright deleted a little then moved in incremental sizes.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Woodson</h3>
<ul>
	<li>Met with Larry Spearman and we decided to confer with Dr. Arnall once again, before rushing into server upgrade</li>
	<li>Christie and Sara worked with Ms Escadero on a  Library research session using wireless laptops.</li>
	<li>On one of the desktops there in the library, I updated IE from 5.x to 6 to clear up script error messages she was getting frequently. Surprisingly difficult to do, because of the script-running errors. Eventually got Firefox, and then used that to download the IE6 installer. (Also suggested she try out FF.)</li>
</ul>