[86] in Kakapo Windows Team
win.mit.edu Status Report as of 30 Aug, 2003
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas L. Thornton)
Tue Sep 9 14:04:08 2003
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 14:00:40 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200309091800.h89I0ehW020511@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: 9 Sep, 2003
Submitted by: Tom Thornton
URL: http://web.mit.edu/winathena
Accomplishments in Aug
---------------------
The use of the win.mit.edu Domain grows hugely in August, up 25% in
the month to 250 active machines and 400 unique logins per day. We
auto-deploy domain-wide a Pismere v0.2.14 and an XP-capable OpenAFS,
v1.3.3.
Dave has a new incremental, with user objects and lists, tested and
into the repository. Likewise, Qing has the new Moira MSC tested and
checked in. They and Garry plan to put them into production after our
domain deployment, in September. Dave and Qing work on loadgen,
getting with Garry and Paul to coordinate AFS server tests, as part of
the CIFS torture test battery. Dave has it coded to be thread-safe.
He considers how to deploy LPRNG, probably separately from a Pismere
msi without KLPR.
Qing adds features to dnscomp and Richard puts it on bdin. She fixes
a whodat problem found by Jon Hunt. She corresponds with Tim Kosse
about the FileZilla server. She builds a user-customizable profile
and homedir web service, then an opt-out web service generalizable by
list. She makes a fix to the tempjoin account form and adds a new
feature there to look for a membership ACL per container, applying
this also to the delete machine page. She studies the change password
dialog box to see how we might support sync'ed passwords on non-win
domains.
Richard works on a reported problem where My Documents disappeared.
He finds the GX360 Intel chipset INF file so puts it into the RIS
image. After a longer search he installs the GX370 and Dimension 4500
sets as well, although we do not have a test 4500 machine to test. He
helps Steve Goldman with group ACLs in his domain. He revises the MSI
tree and its ACLs. He changes RIS screens and sends email notice. He
has Terminal Services License Server running on a DC in W92 and begins
some discussions with Jonathon Weiss regarding MS License Tracking
Server. He visits DUSP to ensure they have our recommended AFS
settings.
Early in August Paul warns of the new RPC denial of service attack.
Following the first exploits, we auto-deploy MS003-026 and Richard
puts it into RIS images, without installing old DLLs. We see very few
compromised domain machines.
Asanka, with Paul, works on many AFS bugs, talks to Jeff Altman on DNS
cell resolution and aklog, reports that Bob Basch's code is checked-in
and tagged. He helps debug 37-312 profiles.
Paul and Jon Hunt still look at XP SP1 certs. Paul proposes that for
small, rapid code changes we should get into the practice of sending
notice to pismere-ops and waiting for any other person to give an OK
before the code is committed. He does Security Camp.
Paul and Tom work hard with the external review here the 14th and
15th.
Tom posts Joe's documents for DFS troubleshooting, Quickstation and
addadmin, see:
http://mit.edu/pismere/support/for-cont-admins/dfs-troubleshooting.html
http://web.mit.edu/pismere/support/quickstation.txt
http://web.mit.edu/pismere/support/addadmin.txt
Wael keeps us apprised of DITR and DART work. It appears many IS
members are joining machines; outside IS, Physics, Audit and Budget
consider it. He sees some potential customers are looking at W2k3
member servers. Audit believes that laptop issues will keep them out
of the win domain a while. Budget will use a standalone server for
Lotus Notes.
Joe studies pushing the W2k3 Admin Pack. He presents his XML MSI
viewer to kakapo. He alters afsdcell.cmd to deal with problems in
starting the AFS service. He looks at Unicode filenames, especially
in the MRU list. He helps Chris check in buildinst. He leads
discussions and begins revisions of the container maintenance form.
He has a defrag option working. He combines osgroups and adtrigger,
documents the new adcontmgr, and moves adtrigger to popwin.
Joe runs the Container Administrators August meeting - see the minutes
at:
http://web.mit.edu/pismere/ctradm/minutes/030829.txt
September Community Milestones
-----------------------------
- Deploy Moira services with Garry.
- Continue working with DART and DITR teams, especially with MSIs,
documentation and meetings with key DLCs.
- Revise web pages allowing container maintenance.
- Container Admins meet 26 September.
Other Goals for September
------------------------
- Implement MSI repository and document it.
- Plan to deploy LPRNG.
Longer Term Goals
----------------
- Test and document new features, nonroaming profiles and machines
outside the MIT TLD.
- Debug BMC's NetApp server in win.mit.edu.
- Work through the remaining SMA problems on Netscape.
- 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
-----
The OpenAFS installer works on W2K and XP with auto-deployment.
Several machines exhibit sluggish startups, which takes significant
effort to reproduce and debug.
Several users have many worries with Internet Explorer, primarily
failing to access Favorites.
The team begins discussions on an external reference version number
for a state of deployed features and services. This number would
indicate a release of AFS, web forms, perhaps RIS images, but would
not indicate any third-party software versions. We plan to set the
current version at 4.0, connoting the number of major versions,
roughly two per year, since our deployments began.
