Super User Group - 2004 Meeting Schedule
The Super User Group meets from Noon until 1:30 PM on the second Monday of
each month.
SUG Schedules: 2008-2007-2006-2005-2004-2003-2002-2001-2000-1999-1998-SUG Home
January 12, 2004 - Fall 2003 Evaluation Team Results
Benjamin Franklin Room (218) - Houston Hall
Noon - 1:30 PM
BROWN BAG LUNCHES WELCOME
This month's meeting will feature results from the Fall 2003 evaluation teams.
Each team will present their findings and I expect we'll all learn something
from what they have to share!
The four teams with links to the presentations given at the SUG meeting are
as follows:
1 - Personal Firewall - Evaluate
software-based personal firewall applications, which we hope will produce a
recommendation related to such applications, and hopefully identify one or two
preferred products.
2 - Patch/Desktop Management
- Evaluate patch/desktop management software for Windows desktop clients, which
we hope will produce a recommendation related to such clients, and hopefully
identify one or two preferred products/strategies.
3 - Open Source Office Suite
- The first strictly open-source evaluation within the University's product
evaluation process. The team will evaluate open source office suites such as
OpenOffice and StarOffice, with an eye toward getting a handle on how well these
products perform relative to Microsoft Office applications.
4 - Altiris - Evaluate this workstation
management software that is rapidly gaining mind-share on campus. The patch/desktop
management team will also have Altiris on their radar if/as appropriate.
Information about the Fall 2003 evaluation teams is available at: http://www.upenn.edu/computing/eval/2003/
AGENDA
- Welcome
- Update: BEN Financials Administrative System
- Presentations: Fall Evaluation Team Results
- Post Meeting : PGP Key Signing - immediately after the
meeting
February 9, 2004 - Virtual LAN at the University of Pennsylvania
Benjamin Franklin Room (218) - Houston Hall
Noon - 1:30 PM
BROWN BAG LUNCHES WELCOME
For this month's meeting, the staff of CCEB (Center for Clinical Epidemiology
and Biostatistics; School of Medicine) will present their experience with implementation
of a virtual LAN on Penn's campus in coordination with ISC's Networking and
Telecommunications unit. ISC N&T will round out the presentation with a
technical discussion of VLAN topologies that N&T has used to isolate traffic
to be protected by a firewall and that allows the ongoing management of all
of the network switches involved.
AGENDA
- Welcome
- Update: BEN Financials Administrative System - Markview upgrade
- Update: MyDoom impact at Penn - Mike Lazenka
- Update: Spring Evaluation Team Call for Participation - John Mulhern
- Presentations: VLAN at Penn
- ISC Networking & Telecommunications
- Jeff Edwards
- CCEB - Jim Kaylor, Rikki Godshall,
Don McKeown
- Post Meeting : PGP Key Signing - immediately after the
meeting
March 8, 2004 - Networking & Telecommunications State of the Union
*** PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE IN LOCATION ***
Arch Crest (Old Palladium) 36th & Locust Walk
Noon - 1:30 PM
BROWN BAG LUNCHES WELCOME
This month's meeting is our annual state of the union update from ISC Networking
and Telecommunications. Mike Palladino will join us to let us know what's on
the horizon for new technology in the networking and telecommunications infrastructure
on campus.
AGENDA
April 12, 2004 - Evaluation Team Mid-Term Reports & Computing Updates
Benjamin Franklin Room (218) - Houston Hall
Noon - 1:30 PM
BROWN BAG LUNCHES WELCOME
This month's meeting features the mid-term reports from the Spring 2004 Evaluation
Teams. The teams will present their current status and look for feedback from
members of the Super User Group. The three teams are as follows
1 - Client/Server
Email Clients - Evaluate recently-released client/server email applications
(including Apple Mail 1.3.x, Eudora 6.x, Mozilla 1.6, Netscape 7.1, and Outlook
Professional 2003).
2 - PDA - This evaluation
will develop a framework for evaluating and updating PDA hardware and operating
system recommendations. Expected outcomes from this evaluation include best
practices documents for deployment and support of PDAs at the local level.
3 - Web Browser
- Evaluate current web browsers (including Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1, Mozilla
1.6, Netscape 7.1, and Safari 1.x).
Information about the Spring 2004 evaluation teams is available at: http://www.upenn.edu/computing/eval/2004/
In addition, there are a number of important updates for those providing computing
support on campus.
AGENDA
May 10, 2004 - Information Security Updates
Benjamin Franklin Room (218) - Houston Hall
Noon - 1:30 PM
BROWN BAG LUNCHES WELCOME
This month's meeting features several Information Security topics including:
-A review of recent campus security incidents and how to mitigate the most common
risks.
-A review of new information security policies and projects underway that will
reduce the incidence of disruptive and expensive computer security incidents.
AGENDA
June 14, 2004 - Authenticated PennNet / PDA Evaluation Team Results
Benjamin Franklin Room (218) - Houston Hall
Noon - 1:30 PM
PIZZA will be provided courtesy of the BEN Financials Team - BROWN BAG LUNCHES
WELCOME
AGENDA
- Welcome
- Update: BEN Financials
- Update: Networking & Telecommunications- Melissa Muth
Reduction of SSN use
Discontinuation of Clarinet newsgroups
- Presentation: Authenticated access to PennNet - Dr. Jon Moore
- Presentation: Web
Browser PDA Evaluation Team Results
July 12, 2004 - Back to School Information
Terrace Room - Logan Hall
*** PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE IN LOCATION ***
Noon - 1:30 PM
BROWN BAG LUNCHES WELCOME
This month's meeting features a number of updates and information sessions
relevant to planning for back-to-school.
AGENDA
August 9, 2004 - Presence and Integrated Communications
Benjamin Franklin Room (218) - Houston Hall
Noon - 1:30 PM
BROWN BAG LUNCHES WELCOME
What if you could stop thinking of phone calls, email, voice mail, and faxes
as separate communication? What if next generation communications hardware and
software tied it all together for us in a more natural way? These are just some
of the things that integrated communications, promises to deliver.
To make this idea even more powerful, add the idea of user presence. Presence
is the notion that individuals can make known to those who wish to communicate
with them whether and how they are available - audio, video, text-only, or not
right now. Imagine if you could make it known in advance which calls should
be put through and which should go to voice mail. Imagine if you could choose
to accept video conferencing calls at your desktop computer, but only from a
few people of your choosing, turning all others into standard voice calls (and
even then sending some or all of these to your voice mail). A sophisticated
presence application could play a major role in giving you and your users this
level of control.
Come to the August SUG meeting to discuss Presence and Integrated Communications
with Deke Kassabian, Senior Technology Director with ISC Networking & Telecommunications.
- Welcome and general announcements
- Provider Update - Windows XP Service Pack 2 - John Mulhern
- Security Update - Amy Phillips
- PennERA Update - Marion Campbell
- Presentation / Discussion - Presence and Integrated Communications - Deke
Kassabian
September 13, 2004 - Information Systems and Computing State of the Union
Benjamin Franklin Room (218) - Houston Hall
Noon - 1:30 PM
BROWN BAG LUNCHES WELCOME
This month's meeting features our annual Information Systems and Computing
State of the Union from Robin Beck, Vice President for Computing at the University.
This is an excellent opportunity to review central computing directions as you
set direction for your own department.
October 11, 2004 - Instructional Technology Practices at Pennn
Benjamin Franklin Room (218) - Houston Hall
Noon - 1:30 PM
BROWN BAG LUNCHES WELCOME
This month's meeting features a survey and discussion of some of the instructional
technology in use at Penn.
- John Kiser will give an overview of Blackboard including what's new in the
updated product and how it's used on campus
- Mark Dominus will provide an overview of WIKI and show how it might be used
for collaboration
- Steve Fabiani will tell us about installed technology in classrooms and
disability accommodations
- John MacDermott will describe how some technologies are used at Penn including
wimba, streaming video services, and blogging
In addition, we'll have an introduction to U@Penn, update from the BEN Financials
team and bring your suggestions for Fall Supported Products Evaluation teams.
November 8, 2004 - Administrative Systems Projects
Benjamin Franklin Room (218) - Houston Hall
Noon - 1:30 PM
BROWN BAG LUNCHES WELCOME
Find out how a project starts from an idea and ends up as a University-wide
administrative system with help from ISC's Administrative Systems Project Office
and AIT Support Services. Mike Kearney and Rosey Nissley will guide us through
the process for longer term projects, short term initiatives, and significant
enhancements to current systems as they introduce some of the current projects
in the queue.
In addition, we'll have updates on:
- BEN Financials - JINIT rollout & BEN/SP2 installation CD
- PennKey - Web-based PennKey change application
- Information Security - Patch Management program, HIPAA Security, policy
directions under review at NPTF
December 13, 2004 - Encryption
Benjamin Franklin Room (218) - Houston Hall
Noon - 1:30 PM
BROWN BAG LUNCHES WELCOME
From the technical to the practical - what is encryption and what should those
who use or support computing on campus be doing about it? Penn's ISC Information
Security office will guide us through an investigation of the topic of encryption.
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