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

• 11 people going to Northwestern, from the current group.
• Group has 20 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

Problem statement:

Next step: Ryan to contact Northwestern with this question/ issue find out their thoughts.

Machine names are using Cornell's AD naming convention. Northwestern likely will prefer to change these names.

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.
  • Do not let machines reconnect to Cornell's AD once NetIDs expired!
• Change local Admin password (user names are: PC: ad-admin; Mac: ChemIT)
  • They tell us what they prefer as a 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

Another possibility: Microsoft's Easy Transfer tool.

Licensing

Ryan: Closer to the move date, intends to contact Northwestern about this issue.

Group must understand licensing at Northwestern.

Microsoft

• For Windows OS.
• MS Office on Windows.
• If Northwestern set up like Cornell, then they'll just work there.

MatLab

• Needed by group. Won't work off-campus. A good idea: Remove CU's license file before machines leave campus. (Don't VPN in or might disable everything else for others!)
• Idea: Northwestern insert their license file.

Gaussian: Banned at Northwestern?

Material Studio: Work with Paulette Clancy.

Cornell file share service (SFS)

Ryan: To give ChemIT an account number for them to buy a 1TB drive. He's to determine time of purchase and migration timeline.

ChemIT: ChemIT buy drive when given authority from Ryan. In date decided on, ChemIT cuts access; copy contents.

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 ($60-70) USB external hard drive.
  • Time estimate, if done on campus?
• 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.
  • Group will want to inform Northwestern of this need, so they are prepared for when it moves.

• Rework workflow, including no longer relying on use of Ryan's Cornell-contracted Box.com account.

Printers

• Anything to be done?
• Northwestern may want to change the settings we set. No password needed. Currently on DHCP.

Equipment disposal or reuse in Chemistry

• Anything?

Any grads staying?

• Ryan reviewed list with Oliver, 3/4/16.