1. Bear Access and Vista Dan Bartholomew drb1@cornell.edu February 21, 2007

2. S&O - Client Services Client Testing Thunderbird (Mail / LDAP) Problems with LDAP and IPv6. Fixed in Thunderbird 2.0Beta which is scheduled for release first half of 2007 TCP3270 - OK HostExplorer - OK Hummingbird lists HostExplorer 2007 as being certified under Vista. We will probably distribute it in place of HE 2006 HostExplorer 6.2.0.11- ( problematic ) Do users still need access to it for new installs and via uPortal? Overall, most Bear Access clients run properly under Vista:

3. February 21, 2007 S&O - Client Services Client Testing (cont) Sidecar Problem with Fast User Switching (Sidecar 913 call back funtion is scheduled to be phased out and the application given a new name for Fall 2007) Symantec Client Security ( first half of 2007 ) User could enable the Vista outgoing Firewall Symantec AntiVirus (V10.2)

4. February 21, 2007 S&O - Client Services Non-Bear Access Clients CUTV Installer not supported under Vista, and a blue screen of death Net-Print New client undergoing internal testing EZ-Backup Supported client due out in March Brio - No change since note published last fall regarding IE7 VPN – Beta Client available Oracle Calendar Minor problem with export function

5. February 21, 2007 S&O - Client Services Infrastructure Problems In previous versions of Windows Power and Administrative users were able to write to the Windows and Program Files folders. With the introduction of User Account Control in Vista, Microsoft tightened up security and as a result Bear Access is unable to download and update software. See: http://www.cit.cornell.edu/bearaccess/testing/Vista/fall06_vista.html for complete details. http://www.cit.cornell.edu/bearaccess/testing/Vista/fall06_vista.html

6. February 21, 2007 S&O - Client Services History of Bear Access Project Mandarin - 1993 Bear Access Launch Pad Project SALSA – 1998 Bear Access Via Runway or uPortal.Cornell Project BASIL - 2006 Bear Access Software Installer & Launcher (BASIL)

7. February 21, 2007 S&O - Client Services Original Schedule June 2006: Last release based on SALSA Fall 2006: BASIL released January 2007: BASIL is default “BASIL” Launch Pad becomes default in uPortal (Runway still available using the current SALSA infrastructure) June 2007: Retire SALSA server Runway would continue to run with updates turned off.

8. February 21, 2007 S&O - Client Services Contingency Plans Fall 2007 Bear Access will be built using existing SALSA infrastructure. Vista Users: We will document the steps necessary to install the infrastructure component--the clients and other applications--then have them turn off automatic updates. We do not recommend turning off UAC or running Runway or IE in Administrator mode. Given that we have not released a version of BASIL for testing we are looking at options for the Fall release.

9. February 21, 2007 S&O - Client Services Questions?