Micronet Calendar - Meetings & Events

Intel's chipset roadmap
Wednesday, April 25
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

Speakers: Afshin Abadi, Engineer, Intel, and Wendy Smith, Business Development Manager, Intel

This presentation from Intel will focus on Intel's chipset roadmap for both enterprise and client. This will include a detailed discussion on Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge. Our discussion will include new features, performance numbers, Node Manager, and Data Center Manager.

Business Continuity Planning for IT systems
Wednesday, February 22
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

Speaker: Walt Hagmaier, Infrastructure Services, IST

Walt will discuss Business Continuity Planning for IT systems, whether it's an IST managed system or one you do yourself. He will discuss the following and follow up with a Q&A on DR/BRS/BC issues.

• What is currently available
• What requirements are not being met
• Alternate strategies that could be deployed

UCB IT Business Continuity PowerPoint slides.

Update: The UCB IT Business Continuity presentation video is now available for viewing.

IST's Cloud/ Virtual Private Server Offering
Wednesday, December 14
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

Speakers: Blaine Isbelle and Jonathon Taylor, Enterprise Windows Manager, IST

A history, challenges, and where we are today.

Update: The following are now available for viewing: IST's Cloud or Virtual Private Server Offering PowerPoint slides | IST's Cloud / Virtual Private Server Presentation

Productivity Suite
Wednesday, November 9 (2nd Wednesday instead of 4th)
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

Speaker: Bill Allison, Director, IST–Campus Technology Services

Bill Allison will discuss the OE Productivity Suite initiative. Topics will include the status of contracts for on-premise software and the current state of the move to a new integrated email/calendar system.

He will discuss the road map for engaging campus in a variety of forums to discover underlying concerns about the transition and elicit suggestions and priorities during implementation of the system.

Regarding the Productivity Suite initiative, its goal is to provide faculty, staff, and students with a comprehensive, widely used set of software tools that can aid collaboration and increase productivity. These tools include the suite of Adobe products that has already been made available to campus, other desktop productivity software, plus an outsourced system for email and calendaring. While calendaring and email are currently separate systems, the new system chosen will have email and calendar on the same system. This integration will offer many benefits for the user experience and also the challenges accompanying roll out of any new, widely used system.

Bring your questions and issues regarding Productivity Suite, issues of support, transition, etc.

Update: The Productivity Suite meeting video is now available for viewing.

Research Hub
Wednesday, October 26
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

Speaker: Rick Jaffe, Research & Content Technologies, IST

In this presentation, Rick Jaffe will introduce the Research Hub, a new service from Information Services and Technologies (IST) that provides powerful tools for content management and collaboration. Research Hub is available to campus members at hub.berkeley.edu (CalNet ID required).

Research Hub allows users to create sites — personal or shared work spaces, complete with a document library, a wiki, a workflow engine and other tools to support group communication and project work. With Research Hub, you can store and manage files securely; browse documents quickly; add folders, tags, comments, and descriptive information to organize and annotate content; use full-text search and advanced filtering to find content fast; and automatically maintain versions of your documents. (No more time wasted editing an old draft!) Easily managed site membership and role-based permissions let users share materials broadly, yet ensure that private files remain private. Research Hub connects to your desktop, laptop, iPad, and smart phone, and integrates with favorite applications — all the while keeping your materials protected in the UC Berkeley data center.

Through demonstration and discussion, Rick will teach the basics of using this new service, answer support questions as appropriate (issues that might resonate with the entire audience), describe the landscape of related services available to campus, and hear Micronet members' thoughts on their needs vis-a-vis file management and collaboration services.

Rick Jaffe is Support Lead for the Research Hub service.

Update: The Research Hub meeting video is now available for viewing.

[Change in Micronet Schedule: Bill Allison will speak at the November meeting instead of the October meeting. Bill will also be speaking about the Productivity Suite, including new email and calendaring products, around 12 noon at the OE Showcase, which will be held in Pauley Ballroom, Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Thursday, October 27, 11:00 am–2:00 pm.]

IST Storage
Wednesday, September 28
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

Jack Shnell of Information Services and Technology gives an update on IST storage and on their new Network Attached Storage infrastructure

Jack will review the newly approved recharge rates for IST storage and backup services, and then discuss the infrastructure developments that enable continuing reductions in cost to customers.

In February, IST began the build-out of its new permanent Business Resumption (BR) facility at San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC). The BR infrastructure at SDSC provides remote site UCBackup data storage and recovery, and Virtual Private Servers for failover implementation of critical campus database and application systems. The IST facility at SDSC will also provide standard IST storage, backup and VPS services to customers wishing to deploy primary application functions at a remote site.

IST is currently replacing its out-of-support Sun/STK Network Attached Storage (NAS) with new NetApp systems at both UCB and SDSC. These will provide expanded NAS services at UCB, as well as BR support at SDSC for other UC campuses that utilize NetApp in IT.

Update: The following are now available: IST Storage meeting video | IST Storage PowerPoint slides

Campus voice and data network infrastructure
Wednesday, August 24
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

Michael Green, the director of voice and data for campus, will be talking about how the campus voice and data network infrastructure will be changing over the next five years. Michael will review how the current campus telecommunications infrastructure has been implemented and then discuss plans for improving campus telecommunications which includes wired and cell phone service as well as wired and wireless data services.

Presentation materials:

• AirBears Map Addendum [PDF]
• Telecommunications Overview for FY 2011–12 [PDF]

Update: A video of this meeting is available for viewing.

CalShare: An overview of SharePoint 2010 for the end user
Wednesday, May 25
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

Michael Leefers will discuss some of the new features available, some of which include better support for Macs and non-Microsoft browsers, Office Web Apps, and much more.

Update: A video of this meeting is available for viewing and the PowerPoint slides can now be downloaded. The presentation is also available in CalShare.

Data Security and Protection
Wednesday, April 27
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

Ann Geyer, Esq., Chief Privacy Officer and Chief Information Security Officer, and Security, Privacy, and Policy staff Karen Eft, Erika Donald, and Matt Wolf.

Update: A PDF version of the slide presentation is available for download.

What can ReadyTalk do for you and your department?
Thursday, March 24
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
5 Haviland Hall (note change in day and location)

ReadyTalk

What can ReadyTalk do for you and your department?

• Save you money and help you achieve your budgetary goals
• Reduce your carbon footprint
• Make meetings more engaging and productive

The University of California agreement with ReadyTalk offers competitive rates for reservation-less (on demand) audio conferencing with the option to simultaneously conduct web conferencing in order to add real time visual content to your meeting. All you need is a telephone and a computer with internet access (Java installed). ReadyTalk provides a complete meeting solution as a cost-effective alternative to meeting in person.  Learn more about how ReadyTalk can serve your department's meeting needs at this Micronet meeting.

Update: Follow-up materials for the ReadyTalk presentation are now available for viewing and download:

• ReadyTalk Presentation
• ReadyTalk Conferencing: Plan | Meet | Share [PDF]
• ReadyTalk Recording Management Guide [PDF]
• ReadyTalk Service Overview [PDF]

The Gathering Storm(s)
Wednesday, January 26
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

Michael Sinatra: The Gathering Storm(s)

A number of factors are conspiring in the world of networking that present difficulties for the future of the Internet. Michael Sinatra will discuss these issues and potential solutions, some of which raise their own set of difficulties.

There will be a brief announcement at this meeting naming the Security, Privacy and Policy tutorials iPad winner, as well as runner-up recipients of Kensington security cables.

Update: Michael's slides and notes are available for downloading. (PDF format documents)

Michael's presentation was inspired by two other talks:

• It's the end of the world as we know it by Dave Meyer (U. Oregon and Cisco)
• The gathering storm by R. Kevin Oberman (ESnet)

"I didn't realize that I had picked (almost) the same title as Kevin for my talk until over the weekend.  (I thought his was called "It's the end of the world...")  Of course, we both ripped off Winston Churchill." — Michael Sinatra

Organizational Simplification
Wednesday, December 8
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

James Dudek: Organizational Simplification

The  Shared Services Design Team of the Organizational Simplification initiative would like to update Micronet on its progress and seek feedback.

Background: The Organizational Simplification initiative is comprised of two distinct components:

1. Restructuring of units to create a flatter, more effective organization
2. Designing shared service centers for delivery of common administrative functions in HR, Finance, and IT

The Shared Services Design team is working on the second component.  A key part of the team's work involves obtaining input from campus stakeholders and service recipients, and drawing upon the experience and expertise of our campus community. This forum is another opportunity for the team to share progress, hear from a wide range of constituencies, and answer questions.

More information can be found at http://oe.berkeley.edu/orgsimp/index.shtml

Hosting Departmental Web Sites with cPanel
Wednesday, November 10
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

Many departments have limited access to expert sysadmins, and just need low-friction, low-cost web hosting solutions. In the commercial sector, virtually all web hosting accounts come with sophisticated control panels that simplify routine administrative duties and help to manage complex multi-site hosting arrangements securely. cPanel is by far the most popular control panel out there, and the good news is that cPanel licenses are free for .edu sites.

Scot Hacker (Graduate School of Journalism) will demonstrate how cPanel servers are set up and managed, how to segment user-facing self-serve operations from admin duties, the numerous security features built into cPanel, and how cPanel systems could contribute toward the goals of Operational Excellence.

Update: Scott's slides are available for viewing.

Campus Operational Excellence: Design, Implementation and Information Technology Opportunities
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

Shelton Waggener, Associate Vice Chancellor & Chief Information Officer, will present an update on the design and implementation of the Operational Excellence (OE) effort. He will discuss how the OE IT team is structured, and how it is approaching the design effort. Micronet members will have an opportunity, during this meeting and beyond, to share ideas on where the campus technical community sees opportunities.

Shel asks that members attending this meeting review the OE report from the Diagnostic Phase, available on the OE website, particularly pages 72-82. If you have questions you wish to submit in advance, please send them anonymously to .

Update: Shel's slides are available for downloading (PDF format document).

IST Platform Services and Web Hosting Options
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

A presentation and discussion of IST Platform Services and Web Hosting Options by Walt Hagmaier and Don MacLeod.

In response to a discussion on the Micronet list, this presentation is intended to be an open discussion of the various hosting options available from IST Platform Services. We will be emphasizing web hosting options from the UNIX Services group, but will be touching on other services as well. We will briefly discuss how we arrived at our current service portfolio, what that portfolio looks like today, and what it might look like tomorrow.

IST is very interested in your input with regard to requirements for future services and this discussion is specifically intended as a forum for Micronet to provide such input. We will also briefly cover related discussions from ITAC and the SAC, two other campus forums from which we are soliciting input.

Update: Don's slides are available for downloading (PDF format document).

Identity Management
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

What is identity and access management? At the May Micronet meeting, Dedra Chamberlin will review some of the many possible answers to that question and where the CalNet team is focusing its effort. We will spend a good portion of the time reviewing progress on our guest account management project and giving a sneak preview of our first significant guest access integration. We will also describe some of the potential new projects the CalNet team may tackle in the coming year and solicit your input on identity management priorities in your department.

Campus Security Initiatives
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

The goal of the Data Security Review Program is to implement consistent strategies campuswide that will lower departmental and institutional risk, and maintain our systems in compliance with system policy and state and federal regulations, with minimal local investment.

At this joint meeting of Micronet and the campus Security SIG, Ryan Means will present an overview of the program and talk about the methodology that the team has developed to assess risk and protect data. Questions and feedback are welcome!

IST: Future Directions
Friday, February 5, 2010
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
2521 Channing Way, Berkeley (At the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE), 1/2 block East of the corner of Channing and Telegraph, in a large white building across from a parking lot.)

A presentation on IST's future directions by Michael Mundrane, Deputy Chief Information Officer. Please come with your questions on this important topic

Update: Michael's slides are available for downloading (PDF format document).

Web Applications Group Planning, Micronet's 20th Anniversary Celebration
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
9:30 am to 11:30 am
150 University Hall

9:30 am to 10:30 am: Devin Jones of the Boalt Hall School of Law will kick off planning for a new voluntary professional organization (a la Micronet) for employees involved with web-based applications, starting with a brief conversation to gauge interest in potential topics and resources. Anyone interested in joining in on the planning can email him directly at .

10:30 am to 11:30 am: Micronet's 20th Anniversary Celebration. Come celebrate with us as Micronet reaches the 20 Year milestone, since the group's founding in late October 1989! We'll take time to reminisce and reflect on, and rejoice over, our first two amazing decades!

State of IT: Its Role in Campus Operational Excellence Efforts
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

Shelton Waggener, Associate Vice Chancellor & Chief Information Officer, will discuss the Operational Excellence work that the Chancellor announced on October 1, 2009, and the role information technology on campus will play in reducing costs and improving campus operations. There will also be time for Q&A.

Update: Shel's presentation slides are available for downloading (PDF format).

At the beginning of the meeting, from 10:30 to 10:40 am, Peggy Huston will introduce a brand-new campus website on Green Computing, focused on energy-saving ideas and projects happening throughout the IT community, and will invite participation from the Micronet community toward this goal. This site will spotlight and share activities occurring in the Office of the CIO (OCIO) and elsewhere on campus to significantly cut energy consumption from IT, using techniques such as power management software, CRT replacement, server co-location, server virtualization, and desktop virtualization.

Career Compass Project and IT Job Mapping
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

Karen Berardi and Jeff Green of Human Resources will talk about how Career Compass job standards were created and how campus information technology (IT) jobs were mapped. The discussion will span such topics as important dates, how to appeal mapping, and career development.

Career Compass has been a multi-year series of initiatives focused on creating new job standards, improving performance management, and providing greater career development opportunities for staff at the University of California, Berkeley. For more information, please see http://careercompass.berkeley. edu.

Please bring your questions and concerns to the meeting. You may also send questions ahead of the meeting to Micronet's Co-Coordinator, Claudia Waters.

Navigating your way through Dell and TSW
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

A presentation led by Amy Knowles and April Roy on navigating your way through Dell's product line, and on purchasing Dell products through the campus's computer store, The Scholar's Workstation (TSW).

• Dell Team Introduction: How to reach us
• Desktop/Laptop Roadmap: Amy Knowles, Dell Account Executive
• Printers: Dan Nichols, Printer Consultant
• Server Update - Have you heard about 11G?: Mike Andrews, Systems Consultant
• Purchasing Dell products at UCB: April Roy & Amy Knowles

Supporting Administrative Computing, Challenges and Best Practices
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

A presentation by Kevin Burney of Administration on selected computing support practices of the COIS unit, which supports a large audience of administrative computer users.

Update: Kevin's slides and handouts are available for downloading (PDF format documents).

UC Backup
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

A presentation and discussion led by the UC Backup Team of Information Services and Technology (IST), on UC Backup Services and IST SAN (Storage Area Network) services:

• History of the Storage and Backup Group (SBG)
• Current Personnel and Functions
• Current and Proposed New Service Offerings
• Development Projects
• Q&A. Please come with your questions!

The Year in Networking
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

A presentation by Michael Sinatra of Information Services and Technology (IST).

Managing Computer Labs on Campus
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

Do you manage a computer lab on campus, work at a lab, or use one of the many labs for students, staff and faculty? We plan to have a discussion involving current lab managers from IST, Law, Residential Computing, and Social Welfare. How do you get labs up and running efficiently, what unique problems do you have, and what are our common issues? Also to be discussed are lab innovations: how do we change labs to reflect the new uses that we all make of computers and technology?

Sian Shumway, Tim Faircloth, Vanessa DeGuzman, Thomas Lee, Yu-Hung Lin, Roger Emond, and Claudia Waters will lead a discussion on managing computer labs on campus, covering best practices (what works and what doesn't?), campus resources, and outside resources.

Design of the UC Ready Application: An Inside Look
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 (note change of date to second Wednesday for November only)
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
2521 Channing Way, Berkeley (About 1/2 block East of the corner of Channing and Telegraph, in a large white building across from a parking lot.)

Paul Dimond and Adam Cohen of the Office of Continuity Planning (Business Resumption) will present an inside look at the UC Ready application, the new version of Berkeley's continuity planning tool, focusing on how usability and functional requirements guided design decisions.

Overview of Calnet Active Directory for Campus IT Staff
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

Mike Blasingame and the Calnet Active Directory team will present an overview of Calnet Active Directory for campus IT staff. What does it offer to departments, how do you get started, integration with Windows Server, Group Policies, next steps. What are best practices, what services and consulting does the Calnet AD team offer.

Have your questions ready. You may post questions on Micronet or send them to

IST Technical Account Management (TAM) Services
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
60 Barrows Hall (note change from previous location of 150 University Hall)

Representatives of several IST departments will present and discuss many of IST's services available to campus units, including those offered within the Campus Data Center and offered onsite. They will also spotlight the role of IST's Client Services-Technical Account Management (TAM) group, which can help you navigate these offerings to find the mix of standard or customized services that will best meet your needs.

IST representatives and topics to be covered will include:

• Technical Account Management, Susan Tobes
• Enterprise Windows Services, Mike Blasingame
• Enterprise Unix Services, Jeff Makaiwi
• Database Services, Karen Kato
• Web Applications, Vahid Nadi
• Co-location/Data Center Services, Steve Aguirre
• Departmental On-Site Computing Services (DOCS), Michelle Bautista

Building the New Campus Website: Technical Challenges
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 (note change of day of week)
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

Steve McConnell of Public Affairs will describe his team's challenges in building the new campus website at www.berkeley.edu.

Steve will speak about some of the technical challenges the team faced in designing, building, testing and launching the site, some of the things that didn't work, and some thoughts about where to go from here.

Have your questions ready. You may post questions on Micronet or send them to

CIO Shel Waggener on Campus Computing Issues, including the Campus IT Bank
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

UC Berkeley's Chief Information Officer, Shel Waggener, will speak about computing questions of concern to the campus community, including the Campus IT Bank, through which the campus is investing in technology and technology staff. Please bring any questions you may have for Shel.

Server Virtualization, Storage Consolidation and Data Management
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
60 Barrows Hall (note change from previous location of 150 University Hall)

Mark Spitzer and/or other speakers from Dell will discuss server virtualization, storage consolidation and data management:

Server virtualization trends:

• What is virtualization?
• What are its manifestations?
• How is it changing the server market?
• When is it appropriately utilized?
• What are its benefits?

Storage consolidation and data management trends:

• What factors are driving storage consolidation?
• How is storage consolidation affecting data management?
• How are current trends affecting data backup, archiving, and recovery?

UCB and IPv6: What You Need to Know Now!
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
126 Barrows Hall (last-minute room change: originally in 150 University Hall)

Michael Sinatra of IST will be presenting "UCB and IPv6: What you need to know now!" and discussing UCB's transition to IPv6. Be there or risk having to wait for IPv10!

These questions and much, much more will be answered at January's Micronet meeting:

• Are we really about to run out of IP addresses?
• What is IPv6?
• Am I really going to have to start using it soon?
• Are ICANN and the US government really mandating IPv6?
• Will I really need to configure my computer with addresses like "2607:f140:ffff:ffff:2a0:c9ff:fe9c:7291" just to get on the net?
• Is it true that IPv6 and IPv4 can't coexist?
• Do I really need a 64 bit OS to run IPv6?
• Do I need Cat6 wiring for IPv6?
• Will all of the new addresses in IPv6 cause us to run out of DNS names and will we have to replace DNS?
• Won't NAT just solve the problem?...wait, am I really going to have to run NAT everywhere?
• Is it true that IPv6 tunnels around firewalls and security devices?
• Will I be able to track down rogue IPv6 devices on my network?
• Is IPv6 really going to happen and am I going to have to do something to prepare?
• Is IPv6 really the next Y2K (only for real this time)?

Update: Michael's slides are available for downloading (PDF format).

IT Career Development
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

1. Forum on IT Career Development

We have invited (or strong-armed) five staff working in IT on the Berkeley campus to discuss their experiences and offer their perspectives on how to develop an IT career on campus. The forum participants represent staff at different career stages working in a variety of IT positions and departments on campus:

• Graham Patterson, System Administrator, Lawrence Hall of Science
• Michael Sinatra, 'Network Busboy V' (wonder what this maps to?), IST
• Amber Sanchez, Programmer/Analyst I in the Law School
• Kevin Zimmerman, System Administrator, Berkeley Wireless Research Center
• Usha Manandhar, Programmer/Analyst, IST Client Services

We would also like to invite Micronet members to participate in this forum. Our goal is to share ideas on how staff can advance their careers and their knowledge of the IT field.

2. Dell's Mark Spitzer on Micronet speakers, short courses

The last 10-15 minutes of the meeting are reserved for Mark Spitzer, the Dell account executive for UC Berkeley. He has offered to bring in speakers for future meetings or to organize short courses on a variety of topics of our choosing.

Many, many years ago central computing in one of its incarnations used to offer short courses on topics from computer hardware to SPSS/SAS to network technologies. Mark has put together a list of topics that could be offered as talks at Micronet meetings or at separate 'short course' sessions. These short courses could be in hands-on or lecture format. Mark will discuss these topics, poll Micronet to see if there is an interest in such sessions.

Lunch will be served at this meeting courtesy of our last speaker.

Career Compass Job Mapping for Campus IT Positions
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

Karen Berardi from the campus's Human Resources department will present examples of Career Compass job mapping of campus IT positions.

Some background:

Job mapping tool (Job Family Matrices, Job Description Templates, and related guides) for Information Technology:
http://careercompass.berkeley.edu/jobstandards/mappingtool/infotech.html

Key steps to the mapping process:
http://careercompass.berkeley.edu/jobstandards/mappingtool/mappingprocess.html

You can also review a schedule of Fall 2007 Career Compass Fall Workshops, occurring through October 9, 2007. This schedule includes a list of the technical folks who participated in the development of each IT job family. Please do not direct questions to these individual subject matter experts, but rather to and Karen will route inquiries to the relevant experts.

Restructuring of Campus IT Job Titles, IT Energy Conservation
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

Three representatives of the campus's Human Resources department will present and discuss Career Compass, "a series of initiatives focused on creating new job standards, improving performance management, and providing greater career development opportunities for staff."

Rich Lau, Director of Compensation, will present an overview of Career Compass. Karen Berardi will speak about the restructuring of job titles in campus information technology (IT) classifications, and can address questions regarding the IT field. Julie Kolar can answer questions relating to Electronic Communications.

Here is a link Karen has passed on to the mapping tool for IT:
http://careercompass.berkeley.edu/jobstandards/mappingtool/infotech.html

If at all possible, please send questions that you would like to see addressed at this meeting to Micronet's co-coordinator, Claudia Waters, or to the Micronet mailing list, so that the speakers can address your interests.

We will also have a speaker from Cal Climate Action Partnership who will briefly introduce us to a campus initiative on energy use and conservation. She would like to solicit your ideas on what might be possible to do in the area of energy conservation in the IT world.

Former Micronet Co-Chair and Co-Founder, Yau-Man Chan, Makes Good!
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

And now for something completely different - let's end the year with some fun. For the last Micronet meeting of this school year, come ready with questions not about IT issues but about the original and still most popular Reality TV show - CBS's Survivor. Yau-Man Chan (College of Chemistry), fresh off the Fiji islands, will give you the inside scoop of all the back stabbing and general nastiness of his fellow castaways. Put your brains in neutral, forget about virus, worms and network problems for 90 minutes and find out how Hollywood does things. If you still don't know what we are talking about, check these links out:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04292007/tv/geek_love_tv_deborah_starr_seibel.htm
http://www.sirlinksalot.net/yaumanchan.html

Converting to Windows Vista
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

Kevin Haney from IST and Kevin Burney from COIS/BFIT will discuss Microsoft's new operating system, Windows Vista, and cover the nuts and bolts of converting a department/lab/group to Vista.

IST's New Service Desk and Support Options
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
775 A&B Tan Hall (new location, formerly scheduled for 150 University Hall)

Our speaker will be Harold Pakulat, Associate Director, IST Service Desk. Among other topics, Harold can answer your questions - raised during the February 2007 Micronet meeting - about the ways that campus IT staff can best obtain assistance from IST.

Code Repository Service, Creating a Developer Community on Campus
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

Centrally-Hosted Code Repository Service. Steve Masover of IST - Application Architecture will describe and discuss a centrally-hosted Subversion repository service that IST is preparing to offer the campus (pending approval of a budget request in the current cycle).

The presentation will include an overview of how version control works and why it is a central component of robust software development environments. A description of the proposed service will follow: how it will be accessed by developers on campus, how it will be structured to facilitate code-sharing, how Subversion is expected to integrate with deployments to the IST Webfarm, and how IT groups using the service will be empowered to maintain and govern write-access to their own repositories. A context-setting overview of what IST Application Architecture is providing to IST developers will frame a request for input from Micronet about what a central application architecture group can do for departmental IT staff; that discussion is intended to dovetail with the second major topic of this month's Micronet meeting ...

Creating an active community of application/service developers on campus. Does creation of an active community of application/service developers on campus warrant forming a new group? Or should such a group somehow be a part of or attached to Micronet? These questions were raised at the February meeting , and will get a full airing on March 20th. Please join in this discussion with Steve Masover and Ryan Means.

Open Discussion of Micronet's Directions
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
10:30 am to 12:00 noon
150 University Hall

Claudia Waters and Roger Emond, Micronet's incoming co-coordinators, and Ryan Means and Gabriel Gonzalez, who have served as Micronet's co-coordinators for the past 18 months, would like to use the first Micronet meeting of the year to discuss your interests and what direction you would like Micronet to take in the next year.

At the meeting, the coordinators will also share the results of a survey of the environments and interests of Micronet's members. (Thanks to all who participated!)

Open Forum with the Campus CIO and IST Directors
Thursday, October 19, 2006
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center (across from the NW corner of Evans Hall, beneath the Terrace Cafe [location], in a food-free zone.)

The Business Process Analysis Working Group (BPAWG) and Micronet invite you to join us in a discussion with Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer (CIO) Shel Waggener.

This will be an open forum for you to ask any questions you may have about IT at UCB. Shel will also be joined by many of his Directors, and it will be a great opportunity to hear about the future of IST.

If you would like to suggest questions to be addressed during this meeting, please send them in advance to the meeting organizers, Ryan Means at for Micronet and Bond Francisco at or James Dudek at for BPAWG. You can also email questions in anonymously to Shel via .

Meet the Campus's New and Outgoing CIOs, New CCS Services
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
10:30 am - 12:00 noon
775 (A & B) Tan Hall (McCollum Room on the top floor of Tan Hall [location], a building on the Mining Circle next to Latimer Hall )

We are very pleased to have the newly-appointed Associate Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and campus Chief Information Officer, Shelton Waggener and former Associate Vice Chancellor & CIO, Jack McCredie as our guests. This will be your very first chance to ask questions and give your input regarding the future of IT on campus and what is to come for Information Systems and Technology.

Jeff Kreutzen, the newly-appointed Technical Account Manger for IST's Central Computing Services, will be discussing new services offered by CCS and how to get started using them.

The references that Jack McCredie made in his parting thoughts, and his sendoff to Micronet's members, are available for viewing.

BearShare Introduction, CalNet Changes
Thursday, November 3, 2005
10:30 am - 12:00 noon
775 (A & B) Tan Hall (McCollum Room on the top floor of Tan Hall [location], a building on the Mining Circle next to Latimer Hall )

Michael Leefers from the Active Directory group will be giving a presentation and demo of Bearshare, an implementation of Microsoft's SharePoint Technologies that is now available as a service.

Rob Chevalier from the CalNet team will be giving a presentation on upcoming changes for CalNet.

There will be time for questions and discussions afterward.

Systems Management and Monitoring Applications
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
10:30 am - 12:00 noon
775 (A & B) Tan Hall (McCollum Room on the top floor of Tan Hall [location], a building on the Mining Circle next to Latimer Hall )

Presentations of the features of Nagios and Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS). In addition, Alex Seton from LANDesk will show some of that company's systems management solutions. There may also be time for discussion of implementation details and other solutions.

Linux/BSD Distro Recommendations
Tuesday, May 3, 2005
10:00 am - 12:00 noon
775 (A & B) Tan Hall (McCollum Room on the top floor of Tan Hall [location], a building on the Mining Circle next to Latimer Hall )

A roundtable discussion on Linux/BSD technologies and their possible role in our enterprise, spanning such topics as:

• What is deployed now on campus?
• What works?
• How well do users work with these solutions?
• Security.
• SMB (Samba) <=> LAN's shares/printing.
• Web services.
• How best to integrate with other technologies?
• Is there an elegant way to use these technologies, save the University money and have a robust computing environment?

Minimum Security Standards for Networked Devices, Future of Computing Security on Campus
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
10:00 am - 12:00 noon
775 (A & B) Tan Hall (McCollum Room on the top floor of Tan Hall [location], a building on the Mining Circle next to Latimer Hall )

Craig Lant (SNS), Karen Eft (SNS/Policy), Ryan Means (CISC), and others will speak about the campus's Minimum Security Standards for Networked Devices (http://security.berkeley.edu:2002/MinStds/), in view of the implementation deadline for these standards of May 1, 2005. Included will be a discussion of exceptions and how issues will be handled after the May 1st deadline. This would be a good time to raise any last minute questions or concerns you may have.

Vice Chancellor/CIO Jack McCredie will then share his views on the future of security on the UC Berkeley campus.

Central Backup and Data Storage Solutions, Server Co-location Service
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
10:00 am - 11:15 am
775 (A & B) Tan Hall (McCollum Room on the top floor of Tan Hall [location], a building on the Mining Circle next to Latimer Hall )

IST's Central Computing Services (CCS) will present brief overviews of two services offered from the new Campus Data Center in 2195 Hearst. For background, please see Shel Waggener, New campus data center and available services (http://istpub.berkeley.edu:4201/bcc/Fall2004/datacenter3.html).

[10:00 am] Walt Hagmaier, Manager of CCS's Data Systems Group, will present CCS's campus backup and disk storage solutions. CCS has improved its ability to back up and store data across campus at a drastically reduced price. Desktop and servers can now be backed up for about $.50 per gigabyte per month. Also, disk storage is now available on demand, with 3 tiers of storage currently available in Premium, Enhanced and Standard offerings for as low as $5/GB per year. These services are available now and eliminate the headache of storing your own data and backing it up. Plus all the data is stored in the new Hearst Data Center, offering first class environmentals and monitoring.

[10:40 am] Patrick McGrath, CCS's Associate Director, will present CCS's server co-location service. The new campus data center was designed to function as a hardened facility for the purpose of housing computing systems that provide critical services to the campus. Topics covered in Patrick's presentation include:

1. Data Center features, including access, security, redundancy, networking, power, air and monitoring.
2. How CCS manages the facility.
3. The co-location recharge model, with sample one-time and ongoing costs.
4. How to engage CCS's services.

Campus Network Status, Campus Data Center Move Recap
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
10:00 am - 12:00 noon
775 (A & B) Tan Hall (McCollum Room on the top floor of Tan Hall [location], a building on the Mining Circle next to Latimer Hall )

[10:00 am] Cliff Frost, Director of IST's Communication and Network Services (CNS), will discuss campus networking, including the Campus Riser Project (http://cns-oir.berkeley.edu/riser/), which is bringing modern, high-speed networking infrastructure to many parts of the campus which still have old 10 Mbps coaxial wiring in their vertical ("riser") cabling pathways and utility closets. He will also cover the health of the campus network, as well as other topics to be announced.

[11:00 am] Shel Waggener, Director of IST's Central Computing Services (CCS), will answer the question, "How do you move 300 computers in the middle of fiscal close and not miss a beat?" He will review the successful July 2004 move from Evans Hall to the new campus data center in 2195 Hearst (http://istpub.berkeley.edu:4201/bcc/Fall2004/datacentersuccess.html), and review some of the key new services now available to campus from this world class facility.

Significant Campus Issues and Strategic IT Planning
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
10:00 am - 11:15 am
775 (A & B) Tan Hall (McCollum Room on the top floor of Tan Hall [location], a building on the Mining Circle next to Latimer Hall )

Berkeley Campus CIO and Associate Vice-Chancellor of Information Systems and Technology John "Jack" McCredie will present his annual update on significant issues facing the campus, with a focus on the Strategic IT planning initiative for the Berkeley Campus.

Article of note: Strategic IT planning for UC Berkeley (http://istpub.berkeley.edu:4201/bcc/Spring2004/strategicitplan.html)

Informal Get-Together
Friday, July 30, 2004
3:30 pm - ?
Jupiter (2181 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley)

Campus Minimum Security Standards, Supporting VPN Access to the On-line Payroll Time Reporting Systems (OPTRS)
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
10:00 am - 12:00 noon
775 (A & B) Tan Hall (McCollum Room on the top floor of Tan Hall [location], a building on the Mining Circle next to Latimer Hall )

The campus's Information Systems Security Officer, Craig Lant of Systems and Network Security (SNS), and Ryan Means, Chief Technical Officer, Boalt Hall School of Law-Computer Services, will discuss the campus's Minimum Security Standards for Networked Devices (http://security.berkeley.edu:2002/MinStds/). This topic generated considerable discussion on the Micronet mailing list during June 2004.

Kevin Burney, Computing and Network Systems Architect, Vice-Chancellor of Business and Administrative Services, will give a presentation on how to support the implementation of a VPN project involving the On-line Payroll Time Reporting Systems (OPTRS). OPTRS is a component of the systemwide personnel/payroll system (PPS), which the Berkeley campus is just starting to use, although it has already been in use at some other UC campuses. OPTRS will be deployed to all departments to allow HR personnel the ability to "to facilitate on-line reporting of positive time, payroll adjustment transactions, vacation, sick leave and compensatory time usage." As Kevin notes, "My presentation will be about the VPN solution for mainframe access [to OPTRS]. It will be an overview of how this project came to be and other reasons for implementing the solution, some brief installation notes and a Q&A session." Also to sweeten the pot, Mike Sinatra and/or Siegrid Rickenbach of IST's Communication and Network Services (IST-CNS) will give us an update on the VPN solution for external access.

Slides from Kevin Burney's talk are available for viewing, and his original PowerPoint presentation is also available for downloading.

The Network Beyond the Campus, Campus Networking Projects
Tuesday, April 6, 2004
10:00 am - 12:00 noon
60 Barrows Hall (on the basement level of Barrows Hall [location], towards the North side of that building)

Ken Lindahl of IST's Communication and Network Services (IST-CNS) will be discussing campus border connectivity, the new CalREN-2 network, and some new Internet2 initiatives.

Mike Sinatra (IST-CNS) will look at some of the network projects on-campus and things like IPv6, NTP and DNS, and other developments since he gave his last "network technical topics" presentation.

BFS Upgrade Plans, Campus Data Center Move, IT Roundtable
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
10:00 am - 12:00 noon
60 Barrows Hall (on the basement level of Barrows Hall [location], towards the North side of that building)

Helen Norris (née Kelly), Executive Director, Budget & Finance Information Technology, will talk about Berkeley Financial System (BFS) upgrade plans, including recent and planned changes to the BFS environment.

Shel Waggener, Director of Central Computing Services, will be outlining the timetable and process for the transfer of the campus Data Center from Evans Hall to the new site at 2195 Hearst (at Oxford).

The rest of the meeting will be used for an informal roundtable on campus IT issues. This can include feedback on Micronet meetings since last September, and thoughts for future topics, including the possibility of setting up one or more 'birds of a feather' meetings for sharing of technical knowledge. Suggestions for roundtable topics are welcome, and can be sent in advance of the meeting to Micronet's coordinators.

Campus Networking, Public Key Infrastructure
Tuesday, January 6, 2004
10:00 am - 12:00 noon
60 Barrows Hall (on the basement level of Barrows Hall [location], towards the North side of that building)

Cliff Frost, Director of IST's Communication and Network Services (CNS), will discuss campus networking, including the AirBears wireless network.

Eric Chamberlain, the Campus Active Directory Architect, will present on implementing a campus Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).

Data Security Legislation, IT Planning
Tuesday, December 2, 2003
10:00 am - 12:00 noon
60 Barrows Hall (on the basement level of Barrows Hall [location], towards the North side of that building)

Karen Eft of IST-AVCO and George Lavender of Systems and Network Security (SNS) will discuss how a recently-enacted California state law, S.B. 1386, impacts how sensitive personal data should be stored and protected on campus computers and how notifications of security breaches should be handled.

For a preview of some of the issues involved, see:
Campus Information Security Committee (CISC): Working Group to Implement S.B. 1386
and
L&S Recommendations for Protection of Computerized Personal Information

Jack McCredie, UC Berkeley's Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Associate Vice Chancellor-Information Technology (AVC-IT) will present on "Suggestions for IT Planning at UC Berkeley."

Slides from Jack McCredie's talk are available for viewing or downloading.

Berkeley Email System Replacement, "Hidden VLAN" Recommendation
Tuesday, November 18, 2003
10:00 am - 12:00 noon
60 Barrows Hall (on the basement level of Barrows Hall [location], towards the North side of that building)

Representatives of IST's Berkeley Email Replacement Team will discuss the new central campus email system, which will replace the current UCLink system.

Slides from the BERT presentation are available for viewing or downloading.

Saskia Etling of IST-CNS, who chaired the Firewall Task Force, will be presenting "FWTF's Hidden VLAN Recommendation." This is a "way for departments to provide basic firewall protection to all or the majority of hosts on a subnet." IST-CNS "is prepared to provide this solution to any department on campus. It requires that a department's subnet be entirely comprised of Ethernet switches." Upgrades to that configuration can be included in a Hidden VLAN implementation. The Firewall Task Force report is at http://fwtf.berkeley.edu/reportnews.shtml.

Slides from Saskia Etling's presentation are available for viewing or downloading.

Computer and Network Security
Tuesday, September 30, 2003
10:00 am - 12:00 noon
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center (across from the NW corner of Evans Hall, beneath the Terrace Cafe [location], in a food-free zone.)

Craig Lant from IST's Systems and Network Security (SNS) will be talking on "Minimum Security Standards", and expects to be fielding a lot of questions. Please do not disappoint him.

For an alternative perspective we have Brad Andrews, Allen Chang and Dedra Chamberlin from Residential Computing who will talk about "Computer Security Policy and Response in the UCB Residence Halls".

CalAgenda, AirBears
Thursday, May 8, 2003
10:00 am - 12:00 noon
60 Barrows Hall (on the basement level of Barrows Hall [location], towards the North side of that building)

Sarah Jones will discuss changes to CalAgenda, the campus's shared calendaring service.

George Kaplan will report on the AirBears wireless network access program, past, present, and future.

Connecting@Berkeley, UCLink
Thursday, April 10, 2003
10:00 am - 12:00 noon
60 Barrows Hall (on the basement level of Barrows Hall [location], towards the North side of that building)

Ian Crew will discuss plans for the Connecting@Berkeley 2004 CD, the latest version of the campus's in-house Internet connection kit, and request Micronet members' feedback regarding the forthcoming CD.

Jerry Berkman will provide a UCLink update, including a discussion of anti-spam plans, the future of e-mail at UC Berkeley, and possibly a retrospective summary of the service's outage in March.

Slides from Jerry Berkman's talk are available for viewing.

State of IST, Campus Networking
Thursday, February 13, 2003
10:00 am - 12:00 noon
60 Barrows Hall (on the basement level of Barrows Hall [location], towards the North side of that building)

Jack McCredie, UC Berkeley's Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Associate Vice Chancellor-Information Technology (AVC-IT), will offer thoughts about the present state of the campus's central IT organization, IST, and Cliff Frost, Director of IST's Communication and Network Services, will discuss campus networking and related topics.

Slides from Jack McCredie's talk are available for viewing or downloading.

Software Licensing
Thursday, January 23, 2003
10:00 am - 12:00 noon
60 Barrows Hall (on the basement level of Barrows Hall [location], towards the North side of that building)

This meeting will cover licensing of software products available to the campus community through various programs and licensing schemes. This includes site licensing, special licensing plans, and more.

We will be addressed by a panel of some of the campus personnel who are most knowledgeable on this subject. The panel will include Bob Callaway, Manager of Strategic Vendor Relations; Mimi Mugler, WSSG Technical Information Service Team Leader, and Steven Hansen, IST's Software Distribution Coordinator. If their schedules permit, the panel may include one or two additional persons.

Please come prepared to ask for details, future plans, and how the campus' licensing efforts and successes affect your unit. Also, if there are software products which you feel should have some sort of campus licensing, or different licensing, come prepared with some detailed requests for our panel members.

Windows Security, Policy Issues
Thursday, December 12, 2002
10:00 am - 12:00 noon
60 Barrows Hall (on the basement level of Barrows Hall [location], towards the North side of that building)

Eric Chamberlain will give a presentation on Microsoft Windows security with an emphasis on security topics related to the Berkeley campus environment.

Craig Lant (on behalf of CIO Jack McCredie) will be covering a number of important policy issues that are currently in discussion. More details on specific issues will be available later.

Network Bandwidth Report, "Free" Network Nodes
Thursday, November 14, 2002
10:00 am - 12:00 noon
60 Barrows Hall (on the basement level of Barrows Hall [location], towards the North side of that building)

Tom Holub from L&S will be speaking about the network bandwidth report's implication on applications such as Kazaa and in general, "incidental" network usage. He will also be discussing "free" network nodes for new buildings or programs on campus.

Computer Privacy
Tuesday, May 7, 2002
10:00 am - 12:00 noon
775 (A & B) Tan Hall (McCollum Room on the top floor of Tan Hall [location], a building on the Mining Circle next to Latimer Hall )

Computer privacy will be discussed by a panel of Gordon Adams (College of Chemistry), Jacquelyn Craig (IST), Patricia Donnelly (Boalt Hall), Karen Eft (IST), and Craig Lant (SNS).

Each panel participant will have the opportunity to explain his or her role with respect to computer privacy issues on campus. After the panel discusses several scenarios, it will address questions raised from those in attendance. Since some of the scenarios are similar to recent campus incidents in which privacy issues put systems administrators in difficult positions, we anticipate lively discussions.

For background information, consider looking over the following resource materials.

UCOP Electronic Communications Policy
Effective 17 November 2000

Campus Computer Use Policy
Last revised 28 June 2001

UCOP Business & Finance Bulletin IS-3, Electronic Information Security (PDF document)
Issued 12 November 1998

Campus Electronic Mail Policy
(superseded by UCOP ECP, above)
Effective 1 December 1998

California Penal Code section 502
Unauthorized access to computer data can be punished as a felony.

Human Resources Management System and Connecting@Berkeley
Tuesday, April 2, 2002
10:00 am - 12:00 noon
775 (A & B) Tan Hall (McCollum Room on the top floor of Tan Hall [location], a building on the Mining Circle next to Latimer Hall )

Greg Small of IST-Workstation Support Services will first describe the changes planned for the forthcoming Connecting@Berkeley 2003 CD, the campus's Internet connection kit, and ask about your experiences with the current C@B 2002 CD. Please bring your comments, suggestions or questions about the C@B CD to this meeting.

Kelly Haberer, Acting Director of IST-Administrative Systems Department (ASD) and several of her colleagues in IST (below) will then discuss the forthcoming Human Resources Management System (HRMS), including browser and other configuration/support issues related to HRMS. HRMS will be implemented beginning in July 2002, so department computing support staff and managers will need to be aware of these issues now. Other participants include Kenny Yip of IST-Central Computing Services (CCS); Ron Kos, the HRMS Training Coordinator; and Marilyn Morissette, the Information Systems Manager in Human Resources, who is leading help desk planning.