Vista Release meeting

 

January 04, 2007

 

Attendees:

 

Jonathan Hunt, Alex Kozlov, Monique Yeaton,  Jeff Pankin, Diana Hughes, Yuhui Ying, Tom Jagatic, Michael Bryan,  Esther Yanow, Tyrese L. White

 

 

 

Agenda for the meeting:

 

- IE 7 certificate issues

- Virus Scan 8.5  issues

- Vista distribution to students

- Documentation updates

- Training updates

 

Action Items:

 

-          a ticket was opened with McAfee regarding On-Access scan service to working properly under Vista; waiting for their response

-          IE7 issues; before we start testing certificate generation code on the test server we have to test it under XP and 2000 systems;  custom installer for the certificate will be developed by SWRT  ; Jonathan will coordinate with Jeff Shuller how to update the test server with latest built; Yuhui will send test server URL to vista-release; tester should report their findings to vista-testers

-          For students Vista activation will be the same as for faculty and staff; downloads will be provided in DVD and 4 CDs formats; tests have to be performed to check how to activate when grace period of 30 days expires;

-          We have to check how to upgrade Home edition to Enterprise when PC was ordered with Home edition preinstalled

-          Training: 22 people signed up for two training sessions; it is 5 day long class; there are two sessions: 22-26 January and 12-16 February; based on these session we will decide if we want to expand training

-          Communication plan is prepaied ; Alex will check with Residential Computing Consultants on how we should involve them in the Vista support process

-          Active directory services for Vista are still undergoing testing; there are still issues with roaming profile, folder redirection; some group policies deployment have to be adjusted

-          documentation was prepared for activation procedure,  minimum and recommended requirement for Vista; team members will review this documentation and provide their feedback; stock answers for VirusScan and certificate generation will be prepared; Vista product page has to be developed by February