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CALS Technology Support Provider (TSP) meetings

TSP meetings are now held on the 4th Wednesday of each month in 22 Plant Science.  These meetings are open to all individuals in CALS who support end-users in one way or another, either from a hardware/software standpoint or a development standpoint.  The content of the meetings includes a short announcement period, followed by one or more presentations by IT staff members on topics of general interest.  A discussion period follows the presentations.  The next few months' presentations are:

October

• Microsoft's Desktop Deployment System (John Enright)
  
• Installing and managing Bitvise SSHD with domain integration and PKI (Rob Hubbert/Dan Elswit)
  

November

• Tips and Tricks for Vista (Ian Bishop)
  
• The Director's Update (Tim Lynch)

December

• Holiday party
  

January

• Comparison of common collaboration tools
• • Groove (Todd Strickland)
    
  • OneNote (Dan Elswit)
    
  • Confluence (Tim Lynch)
    
  • Sharepoint (TBA)

February

• Installing applications with Group Policy (Jase Baese)
  
• Introduction to CALS' custom OCS Inventory system (Ken Sandlan)

Recent Presentations from TSP meetings

• CIT Hosting (Jon Atherton)
  
• CIT Systems and Operations (Rick MacDonald, Paul Zarnowski, Brian Messenger)
  
• Kerberos (Jeremy Royal)
• Windows Vista UAC (Josh Gerner)
  
• Windows Deployment Services (Jerrod Prevost, Andrew Spaccio, Tim Atkins)
  
• Using Bitvise SSHD (Dan Elswit, Rob Hubbert)
• Microsoft's Business Desktop Deployment 2007 (John Enright)
• The Yearly Office of IT Overview and Status Report (Tim Lynch)