ICTF Meeting

Michaelmas 2011 Meeting (No.14)
Thursday 15 December 2011
at 14:00
in the Isis Room, OUCS.

Minutes

1. Welcome
   

   Jeremy Worth welcomed 43 attendees to the meeting.  

2. Minutes of Last Meeting
   

   Minutes were accepted as a correct record

3. Chairman's Report
   

   Jeremy gave his report.
   ICT Central Coordination Project (ICCP) was discussed and explained.

4. ICTF Steering Group Report
   

   Sarah Lawson gave the report, covering agenda item 5

5. Conference 2012
   

   Sponsorship is the focus at this time, plenary speakers are booked, but if anyone has ideas or suggestions, please contact.

6. Items from representatives on other bodies
   1. Colleges ICT Committee (James Dore)
      

      James was not present to give his report

   2. Software Licensing (Sarah Lawson)
      

      Sarah Lawson gave her report.

      Some discussion about Adobe licences? - being valid for dual use  i.e. work copies could be installed at home. Matt Jennings

7. Reports from Special Interest Groups
   1. ICT Managers' Group (Jeremy Worth)
      

      Jeremy reported on the IT managers meeting

   2. OxBridge Collaboration (Brian Hicks)
      

      Brian Hicks gave a report that mentioned specifically swapping our museum digital repository work and information security work for disaster recovery work done at Cambridge.  Brian encouraged any ideas for collaboration with Cambridge or other institutions.

   3. Colleges IT Forum (Simon Thomson)
      

      Simon was not present to give his report.

8. Information Security Best Practice Update (Jonathan Ashton)
   

   Jon was not present to give his report. Other members of the Oxcert team were asked if they had anything to add.

9. Reports from Central Units
   
   1. OUCS (Stuart Lee)
      

      Stuart was not present to give his report.

   2. Libraries (Andrew Bonnie)
      

      There were no questions from those attending.

   3. BSP (Ian Wild)

      Ian gave his report

      There were no questions from those attending.

   4. ITS3 (Tony Brett)
      

      The ICTF Newsletter has been produced and circulated at the meeting. Phishing and the hotmail incident ...

10. Update on the hotmail incident and mail risk mitigation over Christmas (Tony Brett)

    Good presentation and explanation of the cause of the problem.

    Matt Jennings asked that although the effect has been resolved, has the cause been rectified. i.e. have the default mail list settings been altered to stop a repeat of the incident and problem. It was not clear that this had been actioned.

11. Information and announcement about the Nexus Exchange 2010 upgrade (Nexus Team)

    Mark Norman spoke around the 2 options for co-existence of outlook web access 2007 and 2010.

    Still assessing the best course to minimise reconfigurations of email clients for users , since both options have an impact. Also Mentioned the hardware infrastructure is very different and there have been some snags that have delayed the plan.

    Further communications will follow in the new year.

12. Any Other Business
    

    Without any other business the meeting ended at 1545

13. Date of Next Meeting
    Probably in 9th week of Michaelmas Term.