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A place to inventory IT-related issues and their current status. And to promote understanding and coordination among Will and other research group members, Chemistry IT, and the folks at Northwestern.

Facilitating ideas

  • Cornell can provide Northwestern staff with a NetID if that would make things easier.
    • For example, CU Blogs exporting work.
    • Other ways doing this can help the process?

Info

  • Group as 19 members, per ChemIT's records on 3/4/16.
  • Also, 3 system accounts (shared by the group members)

Timing hopes and expectations (general)

  • Anything known? If not, when will it be known?

Cornell Active Directory (AD), both PCs and Macs

Idea

  • Leave machines on Cornell's Active Directory for move.
    • This retains all passwords locally, as cached credentials. Thus logging in will work indefinitely with current accounts when device no longer at Cornell.
  • Change local (root) Admin password.
  • Move machines to Northwestern. Should "just work" as they always have.
    • Won't allow the creation of any new AD-based accounts, obviously.
  • Local IT, using local Admin, disengages them from AD. Optionally reattaches device to their AD.

Mac

One way: Hand-edit the uid and the gid of the accounts to match the new AD's user account.

PC

One way: ChemIT in the past has used (many years ago) a tool called Forensit.

Cornell file share service (SFS)

Idea:

  • On a specified day, turn off access to SFS so no one can change files on file share anymore.
  • All files copied to 1TB ($60-80) USB external hard drive.
  • USB external hard drive taken to Northwestern and data moved to their files storage service.
  • Once confirmed all data successfully in Northwestern, then turn off Cornell's SFS file share.

Cornell-based group web site (CU Blogs)

Confirmed by Oliver: CIT can't add value, even if paid.

Idea:

Export group site from CU Blogs using WordPress tools made available within our CampusPress instance.

  • Also pullout anything that process misses.

Import into NUBlogs (sp?) using WordPress tools made available within their CampusPress instance.

  • Hand-correct anything missing from the export, if necessary.

Cornell-based CATON site

  • Finish getting non-CU-based domain name configured correctly.

  • Rework workflow, including no longer relying on use of Will's Cornell-contracted Box.com account.

Printers

  • Anything to be done?

Equipment disposal

  • Anything?

Any grads staying?

  • If so, and not changing groups, where will they be and for how long?

 

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