Solidworks 2008 SP4 Deployed to Pierpont PC's

SolidWorks 2008 SP4 was deployed to Sites PC’s at the Pierpont Site.

 

Terry Miller

Campus Computing Sites.

Sudaan 9.0.3 deployed to V Stats

The new package for Sudaan, version 9.0.3, has been deployed to the
Virtual Stats machines. This software will load after the next GPO
refresh plus a reboot. It can be found in Course Software, Virtual
Sites, Sudaan.

GUESS 1.0.3b Deployed via SoftGrid

GUESS 1.0.3 beta was deployed to all Sites Vista Lab Loadset systems via SoftGrid. The shortcuts for the application are in Programs->Course Software->Political Science->GUESS 1.0.3b. The GUESS applications are java applets, and consequently, the SoftGrid sequence also includes an installation of the Sun Java 6 Update 7 Runtime Environment.

 

Terry Miller

Campus Computing Sites

 

Firewall Exception For QuickTime Player on Windows

A firewall exception was implemented on the Sites Windows Vista loadset for QuickTime Player. The firewall exception is required for streaming media to work with QuickTime.

 

Terry Miller

Campus Computing Sites

Engin Drive Mapping deployment scope changed

A logon script to map several College of Engineering network shares for
Engineering users was mistakenly linked to all Sites Vista lab sites.
The logon script should have been linked to the following sites:

* Pierpont
* Mosher-Jordan
* South Quad
* West Quad

The scope of the deployment has been corrected.

--Terry

Unigraphics NX 5 Deployed to Mosher-Jordan, South Quad, West Quad, and Sites Pierpont Lab

Unigraphics NX 5, a College of Engineering mechanical CAD application, is being deployed to Mosher-Jordan, South Quad, West Quad, and the Sites Pierpont sites. The software requires a drive mapping to a College of Engineering server thus only College of Engineering affiliated users may access the software.

 

--Terry

 

 

SPSS Modules Added to Virtual Sites Stats Systems

A scheduled task was implemented via Group Policy
(ccs-'08-'09-VSTATS-SPSS-Addon-Modules) to add additional SPSS modules
to the Virtual Sites Advanced Stats machines. The scheduled task runs
SPSSACTIVATOR.EXE to add license codes for the following products:

* Complex Samples
* Exact Tests
* Trends (original)
* Trends (new)

Terry Miller
Sites PC Team

Drive Mappings for Engineering Students

A logon script to provide drive mappings for College of Engineering
students has been deployed to all Sites machines. The script maps the
following drives:

* N: \\storage.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu\home
* S: \\caen-sw03.engin.umich.edu\software

The script should only run for users who are members of specific groups
that designate them as being affiliated with the College of Engineering.

The N: mapping maps to the user's CAEN home directory.
The S: mapping will be used to support future Engineering courseware
application deployments.

Terry Miller
Sites PC Team

Modifications to Windows Matlab 2008a

The following modifications were made to the Matlab 2008a installation
on Windows Vista systems:

* Optimization Toolbox 4.0 added
* Statistics Toolbox 6.2 added
* Dfield7.m added to Matlab\toolbox\local directory
* Pplane7.m added to Matlab\toolbox\local directory
* Matlab Softgrid sequence launch optimized via creation of a new
feature block 1

Firewall Exception for Unigraphics NX 5 added to Windows Systems

A firewall exception for Unigraphics NX 5 was added to all Vista Lab Loadset systems.  The firewall exception applies to any ports opened by this program:

 

\\caen-sw03.engin.umich.edu\Software\CAEN\UGS\NX 5.0\ugii\ugraf.exe

 

Terry Miller

Sites PC Team

MyEconLab Player 4.6.2.0 Deployed to Windows Systems

MyEconLab 4.6.2.0 has been deployed to all Windows Vista Lab Loadset PC’s. The software is an Internet Explorer browser plugin.

 

Terry Miller

Sites PC Team

Mac Flash Player Update

We’ve updated the version of Flash Player in our loadsets to 9,0,124,0. This version is not a debug version, so users should stop seeing prompts asking where the local debugger is.

WriteNCite deployed to Windows

WriteNCite is now deployed too all the Sites Vista stations. The
software will load after the next reboot (over night).

Windows: Add/Remove Programs WMI Extension Deployed

An extension to WMI to allow queries against information registered in Add/Remove Programs has been deployed to all Sites Vista systems via the GPO ccs-'08-'09-AddRemoveProgramsWMI-Extension.

 

Terry Miller

Sites PC Team

Windows - Google SketchUp Pro 6

Google SketchUp Pro 6 was deployed to all Windows Vista Sites.

 

Terry Miller

Sites PC Team

Mac Update

We’ve updated our Macs with the following Apple updates:

• Front Row 2.1.6
• iTunes 8
• QuickTime 7.5.5