April 2005 Archives
Items discussed included the following:
1. Mike Gerst and Philip Hurley attended the Novell Brainshare 2005 conference in Salt Lake City on March 21-25. Mike took a hardware issue regarding the Weslaco server to Novell. He had tried several times to install Netware 6.5.2 on the server put when the installation reached the stage for installing the license, it failed. He checked this issue with Novell, and they said this was an intermittent problem that occurs and the only way to install the license is by using NWAdmin. Weslaco can now be put on the list to upgrade their server.
We did receive 5 file servers last week. Mike will move the most "at risk" PO of Agents and County-Agents to one new server. We will consolidate Agents and County-Agents into one server. We are still awaiting some mounting racks for one of the servers. The other 4 servers are for the Beaumont Research Center, Corpus Christi, Dallas and Stephenville centers.
We received today software for the Blackberry Enterprise System (SQL server standard edition and Windows Server Standard) that will support Groupwise synchronization on the Blackberry. This BES software supports only the Blackberry PDA. Philip asked if anyone at the district centers has been pressured to support Groupwise synchronization on PDAs. No one responded other than Rory who said he has a user who is very interested in synchronization on his PDA.
2. Mike informed the group that the NLM version of Groupwise that should be running on your server is the GW 6.5.4 client. The web installation for the Client is on our web site. You can run the lower versions of GW, but the 6.5 version and higher is better. The newest version, 6.5.4, will print some backgrounds in color for calendar items. You have to be running 6.5.4 in order to run in color. Get with your network administrator about this upgrade if the NLM’s on your server aren’t the latest and to help you with pushing out the newest client.
3. At Brainshare, Novell recommended that we run nightly checks (daily GW structural checks). This clears up old disk space. Don’t ignore the reports, but open them up and look at the end for uncorrectable problems.
Contact Mike if there are any uncorrectable problems to see if it is necessary to correct them. Robert reported that he received 2 content checks, and Mike said it’s because of daylight saving time. You may not see all of the checks because of the time change. Don’t ignore the system checks. Contact Mike Gerst if you encounter problems.
4. On campus, there is a lot of interest in the Blackberry system. Mike said it may be because Blackberry bought a company that already had a Groupwise synchronization solution called GW Mobile. Nexic is available, too, and will be able to perform over the air (OTA)synchronization soon.
Rory Harper asked if anyone else was seeing an increase in spyware. Philip said Indre Pemberton forwarded a message to Guinevere that looked like a phishing site. It had something to do with an Oklahoma bank. Philip opened the site with a tool bar called Netcraft Toolbar which uses a server maintained in the UK to block known phishing sites. When Philip opened the page, however, Symantec immediately caught a virus.
Mike advised everyone to check your Symantec anti-virus updates on PC’s and make sure it is managed. Dr. Lippke will be sending out an email about an online survey regarding the Symantec licenses and renewals.
