Operational Meeting

Minutes of the meeting held on Wednesday 16th December 2020 on-line

Present:: Anila Asif, Richard Bell, Toby Blake, Neil Brown, Tim Colles, Chris Cooke, Carol Dow, Alison Downie, Nick Dandoulakis, Ian Durkacz, Graham Dutton, Mitchell Hunter, Adam Kirylczuk, Mohammed Javaid, Jennifer Oxley, Stephen Quinney, George Ross, Alastair Scobie, Craig Strachan (convener and minutes)

Minutes of the last meeting
The minutes for 9th December were approved.
Report from Computing Executive Group
- Computing plan 2021
  Stephen observed that investigating a new server platform should be on the list. Alastair replied that he believed this was already the case.
Reports from Units
- Infrastructure
  1. The Cheese!
  2. Server room access arrangements
  3. EdLAN
  4. IPv6 SLAAC-style addresses
  5. Let's Encrypt root certificate change Jan 2021
  George also informed the meeting that he was chasing up an odd DNS delegation issue with IS.
- Managed Platform
  - LCFG profiles
  - First release of 2021
- Research and Teaching
  1. SL7.8 progress
- Services
  1. Nothing to report.
- User Support
  1. office365 moves
    Neil noted that he was meeting with IS in connection with the issues Physics were experiencing.
  2. Office desktop Ubuntu upgrades
  3. Server Rooms' Information webtool
Topics for discussion
None
Items for the Computing Systems blog
- None
AOCB

A very merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.
Next meeting
The next meeting will probably be on Wednesday 13th January 2021 online at 10am.

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