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2009

bullet January 8, 2009
bullet SUB 233
bullet General Discussion and introduction of new ITC employees. Began discussion of potential power mandates.
bullet February 12, 2009
bullet SUB 233
bullet Dan Marsh - Windows 7; General discussion and announcements.
bullet March 12, 2009
bullet EPS Atrium Studio 1080
bullet Bob Friedrich will demonstrate the various aspects of the Studio and answer any questions about its function and various components
bullet April 9, 2009
bullet SUB 233
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Updates on Networking by Bob Underkofler and Power Managment by Brad Garnick and Dan Marsh

bullet May 21, 2009
bullet SUB 168
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Joint Meeting with Unix Users Group; Begin meeting with followup to Power Management. For the Linux enthusiasts, Scott Dowdle will be giving us an intro to KDE 4.1

bullet June 11, 2009
bullet SUB 233
bullet Feedback from departments on suggested power management practices. Sarah Veltkamp will address the WebCT access deadline of June 15th. Tammie Brown, Director of Housing/CHO will addressing the decision to discontinue the use of the Banner Location Module and its replacement Star*Rez.
bullet July 9, 2009
bullet SUB 233
bullet Adam Edelman, Chief Security Officer, and Rich Shattuck, Security Analyst, will discuss current security group activities and security-related service offerings.
bullet August 20, 2009
bullet SUB 233
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Mary DeGraw, Banner Student MTL, and Dan Marsh, ITC, will be discussing the Banner 8 Upgrade.  The discussion will address the use of applications such a Microsoft Access, Excel, Crystal Reports or other desktop tools to report and analyze Banner 8 Data.The document called "Banner 8 Upgrade Advisory" is available under the SPG Meeting Minutes. 

bullet September 10, 2009
bullet SUB 168
bullet Tom Morrison will be available to answer questions regarding the NetID at the meeting
bullet October 15, 2009
bullet SUB 233
bullet Ritchie Boyd will give a brief overview of the broad goals of the campus Lecture Capture pilot, and a description of the software (Camtasia Relay) and process. Trevor Murray will give an overview of what they are doing at Nursing with respect to Lecture Capture pilot.
bullet November 11, 2009
bullet SUB 233
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Quick Windows 7 demo of some of its features by Dan Marsh

bullet December 10, 2009
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SUB 233

bullet Erik Varney, VZW engineer for the Western Region, will talk about the New VZW phone/PDA devices, the latest information on LTE, non-BES technologies that enable Blackberry (and other) handhelds to sync with Exchange, and much more.

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2008

bullet 2008
bullet January 24, 2008
bullet SUB 275
bullet Proposed Domain Password Guidelines Discussion with Rich Shattuck
bullet February 14, 2008
bullet SUB 275
bullet Ritchie Boyd will give an update on the LMS evaluation process. Check in on the latest MS patches and reminder to be wary of Valentine's Day messages.
bullet March 27, 2008
bullet SUB 275
bullet Cancelled - Conflict with President Gamble's MSU spring address
bullet April 10, 2008
bullet SUB 275
bullet Ritchie Boyd will give an update on the LMS selection. Martin Bourque will talk about Banner printing changes.
bullet May 8, 2008
bullet SUB 276
bullet VMWare presentation by Justin Hoffman, VMware Regional Director, will address best practices for virtualization and will cover an overview of their offerings in the virtualization space as well as addressing competitive advantages their products offer.  The presenter will be prepared to field questions.
bullet June 12, 2008
bullet SUB 106E
bullet Ivan Judson will tell us briefly about the RFP for the email/calendaring and Carol Shannon will brief us on the computer reallocation letters that should go out to department heads this week.
bullet July 17, 2008
bullet SUB 276
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Joint with Unix Users' Group

The College of Engineering has been phasing in VMware Infrastructure 3 for production servers.  They are using VirtualCenter to manage their VMware servers. Ernie Visser will talk about their implementation of ESX servers and VirtualCenter. He will talk about their experiences with physical to virtual (P2V) migrations of existing servers.

bullet August 7, 2008
bullet SUB 276
bullet Dan Marsh - Desktop Data Backup Solutions
bullet September 11, 2008
bullet SUB 233
bullet Update on LMS selection; Dell presentation on its storage portfolio EqualLogic
bullet October 16, 2008
bullet SUB 233
bullet Various updates and discussion ranging from LANDesk, hardware maintenance contracts available through Technologent, MT Telecom Conference, McAfee, MS Office
bullet November 13, 2008
bullet SUB 233
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ulie Tatarka, BTC's lead for D2L implementation and WebCT administrator will be giving an update on D2L and answering questions.

bullet December 11, 2008
bullet SUB 233
bullet Pete Masse, System Administrator for Chemistry, will talk about his migration of the Chemistry staff/faculty email from a departmental server to gmail.

 



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