A place to inventory IT-related issues and their current status. And to promote understanding and coordination among Will and other research group members, Chemistry IT, and the folks at Northwestern.

Facilitating ideas

Cornell can provide Northwestern staff with a NetID if that would make things easier.
- For example, CU Blogs exporting work.
- Other ways doing this can help the process?

Info

Group as 19 members, per ChemIT's records on 3/4/16.
Also, 3 system accounts (shared by the group members)

Timing hopes and expectations (general)

Anything known? If not, when will it be known?

Cornell Active Directory (AD), both PCs and Macs

Idea

Leave machines on Cornell's Active Directory for move.
- This retains all passwords locally, as cached credentials. Thus logging in will work indefinitely with current accounts when device no longer at Cornell.
Change local (root) Admin password.
Move machines to Northwestern. Should "just work" as they always have.
- Won't allow the creation of any new AD-based accounts, obviously.
Local IT, using local Admin, disengages them from AD. Optionally reattaches device to their AD.

Mac

One way: Hand-edit the uid and the gid of the accounts to match the new AD's user account.

PC

One way: ChemIT in the past has used (many years ago) a tool called Forensit.

https://www.forensit.com/domain-migration.html

Cornell file share service (SFS)

Idea:

On a specified day, turn off access to SFS so no one can change files on file share anymore.
All files copied to 1TB ($60-80) USB external hard drive.
USB external hard drive taken to Northwestern and data moved to their files storage service.
Once confirmed all data successfully in Northwestern, then turn off Cornell's SFS file share.

Cornell-based group web site (CU Blogs)

Confirmed by Oliver: CIT can't add value, even if paid.

Idea:

Export group site from CU Blogs using WordPress tools made available within our CampusPress instance.

Also pullout anything that process misses.

Import into NUBlogs (sp?) using WordPress tools made available within their CampusPress instance.

Hand-correct anything missing from the export, if necessary.

Cornell-based CATON site

Finish getting non-CU-based domain name configured correctly.
Rework workflow, including no longer relying on use of Will's Cornell-contracted Box.com account.

Printers

Anything to be done?

Equipment disposal

Anything?

Any grads staying?

If so, and not changing groups, where will they be and for how long?