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Information Technology <\/strong><\/p>\n MEETING MINUTES<\/p>\n Friday, November 20, 2009<\/p>\n 10:00 am T-12<\/p>\n Members Present: <\/strong>Adrian Agundez, John Eigenauer, Clarissa Espino, Rick Garcia, Shelley Getty, Mark Gibson, Richard Hudson, Ruby Payne, Tiffany Rowden, Rob Teel, Linda West<\/p>\n Recorder: <\/strong>Michaela Young<\/p>\n Meeting start: 10:10 am<\/p>\n Adrian wants to set up meetings to get input from the Committee; Rob, Mark and Rich can assist with input on hardware. He said he would also like input on a perspective. He is further looking at the creation of an Emergency Disaster Recovery Plan for school data.<\/p>\n Adrian said they are looking at the design of the building; the information is going to go before the Board next month for the award of the bid. Remodeling will start in spring; they are looking at 5 classrooms, labs and offices. The offices will no longer be located right off the classrooms. Some faculty members want to see the traditional computer lab with desktops, etc. while others would like laptops, wireless, etc.; Adrian suggested doing some of both to accommodate everyone\u2019s needs. He would like to see the keycard system for the doors. He asked that suggestions be sent to him (e.g. lapel mics for instructors).<\/p>\n Adrian said that Windows 7 is part of the Foundation package; Vista can be bypassed. So far he has not encountered any problems with it. He has asked IT staff to go through staff and student profiles to catch any glitches before rolling it out. It has worked well for him on a laptop and netbook. Patti told him she is willing to try it out on her laptop as well. Windows 7 wants Internet Explorer 8 on the system. Rick asked if you can put Internet Explorer7 on Windows 7. Adrian advised you cannot. Tiffany asked what the drawbacks of going to Internet Explorer 8 are. Adrian explained that going to instances might create some issues. He then pointed out that there are virus issues on campus right now. The Plato server file folder is tainted. Flash drives will have to be cleaned up; he would like to be more pro-active in the future.<\/p>\n Adrian advised that Office 2010 is available for everyone to look at. He will email the link to everyone. He said however, he is not in a big rush to implement it at this time. Rob asked if Office 2007 is going to expire. Adrian replied that it will eventually.<\/p>\n Adrian said a decision needs to be made in reference to First Class. Getting rid of it would mean getting rid of 1,100 licenses. The question is how to migrate to a new system.<\/p>\n Mark demonstrated what \u201clive.edu\u201d looks like.<\/p>\n Rob asked if it was free. Mark replied that it is free; it works with Outlook Express, Outlook Live, etc. Rob confirmed with Mark that there is no limit on how many users are allowed. Adrian added that there are substantial maintenance cost savings. Ruby asked what the down side was. Adrian said that you lose the history of email and conferences; also, helping everyone move to a new system might take some time. Mark said that it could be integrated into the active directory or Luminis. Tiffany asked if a formal vote is needed to take the proposal to Willy. Adrian will poll everyone at the next meeting. Rob asked if a new server would be required. Mark said that it was not needed, as Live.edu would host it, archive it and do anti-spam. Tiffany wanted to know if they would still be able to deal with IT for problems. Adrian said that IT would deal with the company after receiving reports on problems from staff and faculty. Tiffany asked if email addresses would change. Adrian said that they would agree on what to use with the .edu extension. Tiffany wanted to know how long First Class would still be available if they changed over. Adrian said they would have support for up to one year after cancellation. He added that most new phones support Exchange.<\/p>\n Minutes were approved unanimously.<\/p>\n Mark then briefly showed the new web page design for the TC Homepage.<\/p>\n The meeting was adjourned at 11:10 am<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n
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