[125] in Kakapo Windows Team
win.mit.edu Status Report as of 30 Sep, 2003
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas L. Thornton)
Tue Oct 7 17:16:02 2003
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 17:04:43 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200310072104.h97L4hEH016633@the-rim.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, kakapo@mit.edu
Project Name: win.mit.edu Delivery, Integration
Team Members: Joe Calzaretta, Qing Dong, Paul Hill,
Dave Tanner, Tom Thornton
Report Date: 7 Oct, 2003
Submitted by: Tom Thornton
URL: http://web.mit.edu/winathena
Accomplishments in September
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Major Accomplishments
The use of the win.mit.edu Domain doubled our number of users in the
single month of August to 500 unique logins per day. Many of these
are attributable to new users for the WIN Citrix server. Even so, the
number of active machines also grew 40% to 280 in the month.
We auto-deploy Domain-wide a major binary version now using an
external reference number. We call it "win.mit.edu Release 4.0." The
OpenAFS in this release alleviates sluggish startups exhibited in the
previous release by several machines.
We auto-deploy Domain-wide the hotfix for MS03-039. The patch goes to
all active machines within four days, before any known exploits. RIS
images and Ops servers are patched at the same time. We build a
bootable CD with a retail image of XP SP1 and the applied patch. SWRT
consider hosting the image for MIT people outside the domain.
Detailed Accompishments
Joe tests Moira machine lists, writes and checks in a revised printer
script for 37-312. He writes a small force-reboot script for
container admins and builds a MS03-039 patch CD. He revises ANSIfy,
the Unicode mapping script, and finishes a \\win\dfs\ops\distrib local
mirror script, while making a pass through the apps in distrib to see
which may still have trouble running locally. He publishes testing
instructions, as we plan to run it Domain-wide after a bit further
container admin testing.
Dave, Qing and Garry deploy a new incremental, a new Moira MSC plug-in
and get the Moira services into production. Users can try a web form
to specify where the profile and home dirs reside. There are not
enough team member tests reports on it so we ask others to help.
Dave works on loadgen, and gets Garry and Paul to coordinate AFS
server tests as part of a CIFS torture test battery. He has two of
the ten commands working using our latest OpenAFS.
Qing tests Unicode charset filenames. Qing makes an AFS client
configuration fix, and waits for comments on the tempjoin form. She
and Joe look at the container maintenance form to make it cleaner,
more rational, with better resulting email to make it easier for
addressees to handle requests. She is ready to deploy the opt-out
form after more internal review.
Qing looks for a hook into the change password dialog to see how we
might support sync'ed passwords on non-win domains. This is not
possible, so she considers a client-side fix which may be difficult,
maybe a GINA.
Qing revises web help files, and finally hears back from Tim Kosse
with FileZilla server news. She investigates offline files on an XP
machine, exploring possible settings, scripts and maybe a GUI.
Richard does AFS slow-boot netman testing. He makes and validates a
RIS version of W2K SP4 which awaits this next OpenAFS. He examines
the MS license server.
Richard advises HR and Resource Development on migrating their NT4 to
member servers. The didnt Domain has new DCs and SPN descriptions, so
he rebuilds the DCs one at a time. He tests VPN.
Given DLC questions about laptops, Paul wants to describe them to Kyle
before DITR addresses issues with customers. To broaden the audience,
Tom begins a descriptive paper for any user. Richard comments on it.
Tom meets with Theresa to discuss the web form providing temporary
domain-join accounts, accessible to a domain administrator, a
container administrator, or a person in the membership ACL for a
container. We want to clarify the rights and responsibilities in
granting and using such ACLs.
We run the Container Administrators September meeting - see the
minutes at:
http://web.mit.edu/pismere/ctradm/minutes/030926.txt
October Community Milestones
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- We expect new versions of several web forms.
- Container Admins meet 31 October.
Other Goals for October
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- Implement MSI repository and document it.
- Plan to deploy LPRNG.
We have dropped the following goals, for the reasons specified:
- Debug BMC's NetApp server in win.mit.edu.
BMC run their NetApp server out of their own domain, so have
found an adequate work-around.
- Work through the remaining SMA problems on Netscape.
The Domain has moved beyond the versions of authentication binaries
and Netscape that SMA tried. We hope to prove such problems are
gone when SMA next use their podium machines.
Longer Term Goals
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- Test and document new features, nonroaming profiles and machines
outside the MIT TLD.
- Get schema OID from Tom C.
- 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.
Issues
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We have a pending unrepeated bug report that Internet Explorer can
fail to access Favorites.
We have much documentation that requires better presentation.
