1 Technology Coordinator Meeting Humanities 019 Friday, March 29, 2002

2 Purpose of meeting  To meet with people in academic areas with responsibilities for labs, classrooms, etc.  Probably meet either once a month, every other month, or once a term  Share developments, tips, etc.  To get feedback and suggestions

3 Items  Summer, 2002 Plans – upgrades in labs, classrooms, SW, etc.  Site licenses  Networking  Miscellaneous

4 Summer 2002 Plans

5 Summer plans – Hardware  New computers Windows Lab (Steinmetz 110) Graphics Lab (Steinmetz 101) Olin 301, 332

6 Summer Plans - Software  Complete move to Windows 2000 domain  Windows Windows XP Office XP SSH Telnet Visual Studio.net???

7 Software continued  MAC MAC OS X MS Office 10 MAC SSH

8 Software - Licenses

9 Microsoft Licensing until this past Fall (2001)  MOLP-B licensing  Bought full package plus licenses to install  Needed new licenses for new releases  Difficult to track licenses  Discontinued by Microsoft

10 Microsoft Licensing Current Agreement  Covers ALL institutionally owned machines  Count people – not machines or licenses  Keep software up to date and legal  One annual count, one annual payment  Rights to all versions (upgrades and downgrades)

11 Microsoft Licensing Current Agreement  Office Pro (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook)  Office for MAC  Windows operating systems  Microsoft FrontPage (Windows only)  Includes upgrades and downgrades  Good through July, 2002

12 Future – working on Microsoft License through NERCOMP (NorthEast Regional Computing Program), of which Union is a member

13 NERCOMP-Microsoft Licensing Benefits  Covers ALL institutionally owned machines  Count people – not machines or licenses  Keep software up to date and legal  One annual count, one annual payment  Rights to all versions (upgrades and downgrades)  More products  Less expensive

14 NERCOMP-Microsoft Licensing Products Covered  Office family (Windows & MAC)  Windows OS upgrades  FrontPage (Windows)  Visual Studio.Net Pro (Visual Basic, Visual C++)  Publisher  Core Client Access Licenses

15 Other general licenses  Windows Mathematica McAfee VirusScan SAS and SPSS SSH Telnet E-views

16 Other general licenses - 2  MAC Mathematica McAfee VIREX MacSSH

17 Site licenses – Mathematica  Unlimited number of copies  For use on College-owned computers

18 Site licenses – Virus Protection  McAfee  For faculty, staff, administrators and students  Also covers home computers

19 Site licenses – SPSS and SAS  For a specific number of copies  For use on College-owned computers

20 Site licenses – other  SSH telnet and ftp  eViews (unlimited number of copies, College- owned computers)

21 Lab Management Software  Free RevR-dist (MAC)  Purchased Ghost PCR-dist Keyserver to control limited licenses

22 Networking  Union’s Internet connection Bandwidth shaping  Wireless networking  Virtual LANs (VLANs)  Security Firewall Virtual Private Network (VPN) Virus protection  Phasing out or de-emphasizing

23 Union’s Internet connection  In December 2001 Union went from four (4) T1 lines providing up to 6 Mbps of access to an OC3 line currently providing 20 Mbps of access  Two parts to our Internet access: 1) line, 2) Internet access purchased  Verizon is our Internet Service Provider (ISP)  OC3 line is capable of 155 Mbps, providing for future growth (at additional access charge)

24 Bandwidth “shaper”  Used to efficiently manage the Internet bandwidth  Insures that high priority applications get bandwidth they need on a priority basis (e.g. WWW)  Stop bandwidth hog applications (e.g. Morpheus) from clogging the Internet pipe

25 Wireless Network   Wireless network card available in College Bookstore for about $ (Orinoco Gold card) – only card supported  Utilizing encryption

26 Wireless Network - locations  Schaffer Library  Library Plaza (outside)  Dutch Hollow (and some in Upperclass Dining)  Nott Memorial  Olin Learning Center (on 2 nd floor)  Steinmetz 2 nd floor  North S&E N106 labs in that hallway

27 Virtual LANs (VLAN)  Provide the capability to use a PC in any active network connection on campus without changing any network settings  Example: PC with an Academic IP address will work in a building that is normally used by administrative users

28 Security – a key issue  Network intrusion  Hackers  Viruses  Security patches for operating systems and other software

29 Firewall  Designed to protect Union College network from Internet hackers and attacks  Allows all outbound Internet traffic  Only allows specified inbound Internet traffic (e.g. Web servers)  Contact Bob at x6667 if you need to add new servers that need to be able to be accessed by Internet users

30 Virtual Private Networking (VPN)  New device designed to create a secure encrypted tunnel between the remote computer and the Union network  All services available on Union’s network are available to the remote user through this tunnel  Will eventually de-emphasize most of proxy server use

31 Virus Protection – for servers  Experimenting with virus protection for mail servers  Checks every piece of mail for presence of virus  Expensive

32 The future – being phased out  Some services transmit passwords over the Internet in plain text – easy to hijack these usernames and passwords  clients that utilize plaintext passwords  telnet to be replaced by SSH client, VPN,...  ftp (WS_ftp, etc.) to be replaced by SSH ftp client, VPN,...  SSH clients available at

33 The future – being de-emphasized  Proxy server – alternative: VPN

34 Summer Workshop/Training  Week of July In the past Web page using FrontPage and presentations using PowerPoint 2. Will probably be redesigned for this summer  Other training 1. Blackboard 2. Other