Technical Coordinators Meeting Steve Siirila Chris Bongaarts February 12, 2008
Outages – –CAH login (2 of 3 servers) – –Affected Gophermail service – –Most CAH applications retried a different server and were therefore not affected – –Resolved by 12:25am
Server Upgrades IMAP/POP mail store servers switching from UFS to ZFS filesystem IMAP/POP mail store servers switching from UFS to ZFS filesystem –Ability to utilize snapshots –Allows for filesystem-level compression –Positions us to utilize ZFS mirroring –No user quotas SAN storage reconfiguration SAN storage reconfiguration
Beta services Still collecting feedback for: – –Mail filteringMail filtering – –Mailbox sharingMailbox sharing – –UMN Mail Tools Thunderbird plugin (attached to message to -L from Jeff Williams on 12/18/2008; see archives on lists.umn.edu until we find a more permanent web home for it)
Bits ‘n’ Bytes CICme – CIC collaboration tool switching to Shibboleth auth 2/17
UMMail Google agreement signed Dec 2008 Google agreement signed Dec 2008 Opt-in available starting Fall 2009 Opt-in available starting Fall 2009 Emphasis currently focused on incoming freshman students Emphasis currently focused on incoming freshman students Direct questions to Direct questions to
Future -L Meetings Merging with Net-People meetings Merging with Net-People meetings Time and cost savings Time and cost savings Increased participation anticipated Increased participation anticipated Will continue to utilize -L mailing list for announcements and discussions Will continue to utilize -L mailing list for announcements and discussions Presentation available prior to meeting Presentation available prior to meeting Open to ideas on format and timing Open to ideas on format and timing
‘Till next month… Chris Bongaarts Chris Bongaarts Steve Siirila Steve Siirila Internet Services Internet Services