I was away at the beginning of the week, but I’m back now. We’ve had some interesting issues come up with some of the Western Digital 250GB drives we use for linux home directory storage, so I’ll be concentrating on that along with some other technical admin tasks this week.
After workng out some of the issues with the group policy updates for Firefox, I’m hoping to roll out the flash update along with the windows updates that are scheduled for this week.
It’s been a while since we’ve updated, so there is a recap for the task items that were previously in this list in the entry for March 2nd, 2009.
Next week: Patch Tuesday, so there will be some scheduled downtime for windows computers.
The ssl certificate installation was sucessful on the mail server, so I will be rolling out certficates from the same authority for the web server and other web applications we host. We will also be trying an upgrade on the cluster operating system, as well as moving the cs home directories to a new disk array.
We had a bit of excitement yesterday with one of the partitions on our main linux file server. It appears that the drive is beginning to fail. I’ll be testing it this week along with my other work.
This week I hope to move back to spending more time on Active Directory move testing. We also have some new matlab toolboxes to install.
A warning about some impending drive failures in our cluster on Friday means I’m going to need to schedule some downtime for it this week. We’re also having an orientation meeting today for lab students. The details are in your email.
It looks like the strike at UofT has been avoided. The sony work and some other, grant related work ended up taking the majority of my week, so I’m still working on the Active Directory move.
This week will probably be concerned mostly with new student setup, although I hope to continue to make headway on the Active Directory tests I’ve been working on.
Next week I’ll be away, and this week is shortened because of the holiday so my ambition will most likely exceed my reach. Most of last’s week tasks are still works in progress for this week.