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Technology Coordinator Meeting

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Friday, March 29, 2002

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Purpose of meeting To meet with people in academic areas with

responsibilities for labs, classrooms, etc. Probably meet either once a month, every

other month, or once a term Share developments, tips, etc. To get feedback and suggestions

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Items Summer, 2002 Plans – upgrades in labs,

classrooms, SW, etc. Site licenses Networking Miscellaneous

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Summer 2002 Plans

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Summer plans – Hardware New computers

Windows Lab (Steinmetz 110) Graphics Lab (Steinmetz 101) Olin 301, 332

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Summer Plans - Software Complete move to Windows 2000 domain Windows

Windows XP Office XP SSH Telnet Visual Studio.net???

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Software continued MAC

MAC OS X MS Office 10 MAC SSH

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Software - Licenses

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Microsoft Licensinguntil this past Fall (2001)

MOLP-B licensing Bought full package plus licenses to install Needed new licenses for new releases Difficult to track licenses Discontinued by Microsoft

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Microsoft Licensing Current Agreement Covers ALL institutionally owned machines Count people – not machines or licenses Keep software up to date and legal One annual count, one annual payment Rights to all versions (upgrades and

downgrades)

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Microsoft LicensingCurrent Agreement

Office Pro (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook)

Office for MAC Windows operating systems Microsoft FrontPage (Windows only) Includes upgrades and downgrades Good through July, 2002

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Future – working onMicrosoft License through NERCOMP (NorthEast Regional Computing Program), of which Union is a member

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NERCOMP-Microsoft LicensingBenefits Covers ALL institutionally owned machines Count people – not machines or licenses Keep software up to date and legal One annual count, one annual payment Rights to all versions (upgrades and downgrades) More products Less expensive

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NERCOMP-Microsoft LicensingProducts Covered Office family (Windows & MAC) Windows OS upgrades FrontPage (Windows) Visual Studio.Net Pro (Visual Basic, Visual

C++) Publisher Core Client Access Licenses

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Other general licenses Windows

Mathematica McAfee VirusScan SAS and SPSS SSH Telnet E-views

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Other general licenses - 2 MAC

Mathematica McAfee VIREX MacSSH

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Site licenses – Mathematica Unlimited number of copies For use on College-owned computers

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Site licenses – Virus Protection McAfee For faculty, staff, administrators and students Also covers home computers

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Site licenses – SPSS and SAS For a specific number of copies For use on College-owned computers

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Site licenses – other SSH telnet and ftp eViews (unlimited number of copies, College-

owned computers)

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Lab Management Software Free

RevR-dist (MAC) Purchased

Ghost PCR-dist Keyserver to control limited licenses

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Networking Union’s Internet connection

Bandwidth shaping Wireless networking Virtual LANs (VLANs) Security

Firewall Virtual Private Network (VPN) Virus protection

Phasing out or de-emphasizing

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Union’s Internet connection In December 2001 Union went from four (4) T1

lines providing up to 6 Mbps of access to an OC3 line currently providing 20 Mbps of access

Two parts to our Internet access: 1) line, 2) Internet access purchased

Verizon is our Internet Service Provider (ISP) OC3 line is capable of 155 Mbps, providing for

future growth (at additional access charge)

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Bandwidth “shaper” Used to efficiently manage the Internet

bandwidth Insures that high priority applications get

bandwidth they need on a priority basis (e.g. WWW)

Stop bandwidth hog applications (e.g. Morpheus) from clogging the Internet pipe

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Wireless Network http://wireless.union.edu Wireless network card available in College

Bookstore for about $85.00. (Orinoco Gold card) – only card supported

Utilizing encryption

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Wireless Network - locations Schaffer Library Library Plaza (outside) Dutch Hollow (and some in Upperclass

Dining) Nott Memorial Olin Learning Center (on 2nd floor) Steinmetz 2nd floor North S&E N106 labs in that hallway

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Virtual LANs (VLAN) Provide the capability to use a PC in any

active network connection on campus without changing any network settings

Example: PC with an Academic IP address will work in a building that is normally used by administrative users

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Security – a key issue Network intrusion Hackers Viruses Security patches for operating systems and

other software

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Firewall Designed to protect Union College network

from Internet hackers and attacks Allows all outbound Internet traffic Only allows specified inbound Internet traffic

(e.g. Web servers) Contact Bob at x6667 if you need to add new

servers that need to be able to be accessed by Internet users

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Virtual Private Networking (VPN) New device designed to create a secure

encrypted tunnel between the remote computer and the Union network

All services available on Union’s network are available to the remote user through this tunnel

Will eventually de-emphasize most of proxy server use

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Virus Protection – for servers Experimenting with virus protection for mail

servers Checks every piece of mail for presence of

virus Expensive

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The future – being phased out Some services transmit passwords over the

Internet in plain text – easy to hijack these usernames and passwords

email clients that utilize plaintext passwords telnet to be replaced by SSH client, VPN, . . . ftp (WS_ftp, etc.) to be replaced by SSH ftp client,

VPN, . . . SSH clients available at http://

www.union.edu/RESOURCES/ITS/RESOURCES/UNION/ftpserver.htm

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The future – being de-emphasized Proxy server – alternative: VPN

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Summer Workshop/Training Week of July 8- 12

1. In the past Web page using FrontPage and presentations using PowerPoint

2. Will probably be redesigned for this summer Other training

1. Blackboard

2. Other