Operational Meeting

Minutes of the meeting held on Wednesday 4th November 2020 on-line

Present:: Richard Bell, Toby Blake, Neil Brown, Chris Cooke, Alison Downie (convener and minutes), Graham Dutton, Mitchell Hunter, Adam Kirylczuk, Mohammed Javaid, Stephen Quinney, Iain Rae, Gordon Reid, George Ross, Alastair Scobie, Craig Strachan

Minutes of the last meeting
The minutes for 28th October were approved.
Report from Computing Executive Group
- Nothing to report
Reports from Units
- Infrastructure
  1. Server room access arrangements
  2. Forum gas suppression system
    The demo this morning proved interesting and useful but there is a need for instructions particularly for BZ.14 (self-managed server room)
  3. EdLAN
  4. AT server room power work
  5. JCMB power work
- Managed Platform
  - The test KVM Server has changed
    azul is now the test KVM server. All VMs from the old test KVM server oyster have been moved to azul.
  - MPU server SL upgrades
    One server left which will be upgraded to Ubuntu so task complete!
- Research and Teaching
  1. Server room visit
- Services
  1. Mailing list sources
  2. EdPrint
  3. SL7.8 progress
    11 to go.
- User Support
  1. Office365 moves
    Further delay but migrations start again on Tuesday 10th November
  2. Office desktop Ubuntu upgrades
    237 to do!
Topics for discussion
None.
Items for the Computing Systems blog
AOCB
Next meeting
The next meeting will be on Wednesday 11th November 2020 online at 10am.

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