[1117] in I/T Delivery
WinAthena Project Status Report as of 31 Mar, 2003
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas L. Thornton)
Mon Apr 7 15:04:07 2003
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 15:04:04 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200304071904.PAA04451@magic-pi-ball.mit.edu>
From: "Thomas L. Thornton" <tomt@MIT.EDU>
To: delivery@MIT.EDU, integration-ptl@MIT.EDU, dennis@MIT.EDU,
ganderson@MIT.EDU, rar@MIT.EDU, vkumar@MIT.EDU
Cc: pismere-team@MIT.EDU
Project Name: WinAthena Delivery, Integration
Team Members: Joe Calzaretta, Qing Dong, Paul Hill, Wael Hishmeh,
Dave Tanner, Tom Thornton
Report Date: 7 Apr, 2003
Submitted by: Tom Thornton
URL: http://web.mit.edu/winathena
Accomplishments in March
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The use of the win.mit.edu Domain remains stable at about 115 active
machines and 180 unique logins per day.
Domain containers are now tracked, along with potential new Domains,
by the DART team, who expect to maintain lists in a database.
For critical bugs, see:
http://web.mit.edu/pismere/projmgt/bugs/critical.html
Pat at BioMicro affirms that he has a standalone Domain up, which went
quickly due to his win experiences.
Ed Block submits many bug reports, several of which appear specific to
third-party software and not obviously exercising AFS behavior. We
try to address them individually, but need to be sensitive to invoking
the Help Desk when appropriate. Given this, Wael documents several
command-line utilities - tokens, unlog, klist, kdestroy, kinit, renew
and ms2mi.
Paul may find a MS support contact who would like a laptop to see our
bugs. To make add and attach work in 37 with course lockers, Paul
sends Chad a new locker.msi. Paul talks to Jeff Altman who will do
some Windows Kerberos work. He gets permission from Mike Lin to put
his utilities into a locker.
Joe announces that he removes the "Delete cached copies of roaming
profiles" workaround. He deploys a test script to install printers
with non-W2K drivers, supporting more various Athena printers. Joe
gives Atticus a FileZilla msi. He makes changes in the container
request web form.
Joe and Dave spec new machines. Joe works on spnfix and adtrigger
expecting dwt to come up so he can test. MS PSS agrees to look at our
hanging dialog bug. He fixes a delay in auto-creating an associated
list.
Joe fixes printer scripts to avoid making multiple printer copies. He
noodges Chad to test the duplex acantha printer. He talks to Garry
about changing Moira to allow spnfixd to deal with non-MIT TLDs.
After finding misbehavior with our temp account names and passwords,
he does a search for an alternate dictionary, asking Mark about the
six-word new-student dictionary.
Wael assists with Intensive Computing discovery group final report.
He helps the DART team plan customer contact and documentation, with
Kerem meeting Fred Baars at Computing Help. He tests SP4 beta, which
will not uninstall, plus IE 6 and Power Archiver. He gets Bob Basch's
machine up into the pismere-dev container, so Tom can get Bob the ACLs
and tools to do builds. Bob takes the first steps to sync our AFS
code with OpenAFS.
Richard wraps up the Ops training he has done over the past couple
months, guides Cana though winlogger scripting and activates the didnt
OS. He reminds Garry that we need to get IBM servers for populator
and dataloss before this team can buy a couple other test servers.
Richard plans to move an isnt DC to W20 asking Dave to beat on it. He
sends a dwt subdomain request to netreq. He tests XP RIS, SP1 and
AFS, doing a new slipstream image. SP1, like W2K SP3, still attempts
to reinstall and leaves errors in the log. He and Joe suggest that
Paul promote this to PSS.
With Kevin, Richard studies null session settings. He finds and
reports on the Resultant Set of Policies, RSOP, mmc.
Dave says that Dave Nelson at U of Florida debugs LPNG. Dave tests
attributes on his schema extension app.
Qing revises a data model for software tracking and meets with Angela
Blossom. She looks at a report that detach would hang. She debugs
and rewrites the temp machine-joining account page, on which we put
new licensing language. Since Tim Kosse agrees she should look into
GSS on FileZilla server, she looks at XiaoWen's previous code and
begins development, contrasting the Athena ftpd.
Kevin begins a security documentation web area, browsable by server or
topic. He has a draft of documentation describing null session
accounts. He tests NTLM lockdowns, working on AFS, and gathers a list
of server types to test.
Tom installs XFree86, but finds it will need much work before we can
deploy it. He gets a new WinZephyr binary to SWRT and maintains bug
cases. He reviews our needs for server and CALs licenses.
We have a Wise consultant here for a few weeks to repackage
installers. Tom and Wael prepare his space and get him a machine and
vendor binaries.
We have a Container Admins meeting 28 March. Paul MCs, with the
following results:
- Reviews some of the reported bugs and their disposition from the
past month;
- Discusses profiles, roaming and otherwise, their repair and
maintenance;
- Highlights some MSI creation work underway;
- Supporting machines that are not in the mit.edu DNS domain
- A WinAthena name change? (one suggestion: Picante)
- New app from Joe, quickstation.exe, to log people out after idle
time or fixed time.
- Another Joe app, addadmin.exe, that adds/removes a list of domain
accounts (users and groups) to/from the machine's Local
Administrators group.
- Klpr printer group policy supports "newer" drivers that do not
come with Windows.
Next Community Milestone
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- Our top priority is now debugging the OpenAFS installer for XP.
- Work with desktop-project and the Windows Domains and Servers team
to revise and add to the IS web presence.
- Continue Container Admin meetings, presenting new apps and MSIs, web
pages and documents.
Goals for April
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As last month, we still have three other priorities:
1. Install user apps;
2. Maintain and account for DC sysadmin;
3. Deploy with transition to Support and Service teams.
Item 1 includes supporting current customers, hoping to get help
deploying user apps, ideally in AFS. Apps include Office and new
MSIs.
For Item 2, the Windows Domains and Servers team will assist in
documenting administration and automated event log processing.
Item 3 relates to discussions with Support and ITLT, defining the
user-visible products we shall deliver and focusing on how best to
deploy them. Here we concentrate on Bldg 37.
Longer Term Goals
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- Debug BMC's NetApp server in WIN.
- Work through the remaining SMA problems on Netscape, or Deploy I6.
- Get schema OID from Tom C.
- We need to take over what Danilo intended to write, someday:
DHCP & RIS
Build
- Continue to develop web pages allowing container maintenance.
- Sync our AFS code with OpenAFS via CMU.
- Get help from Garry and TomC to put non-null Kerberos instances into
Moira.
- Do further work to populate AD attributes, such as white pages info,
from the MIT data warehouses.
- Work with MS to customize RIS.
Issues
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- With no Windows system programmer, we stretch Joe awfully thin.
- Win2K domain questions and PSS bugs take much of Paul's time.
