ST Technical Committee

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• ST Technical Committee
• April 9th, 2001

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Time scale
July 1999 Project Proposal study started
February 2000 Pilot started MS release W2K
July 2000 Server migration SP1 Released NetWare migration
November 2000 Install diskette Web tools Integration with Web Servers Migration Task Force
January 2001 NICE 2000 available with minimum applications
February 2001 NICE 2000 only on new laptops
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Plans
March 2001 Systems Management Server
April 2001 Disk cloning faster installation Core set of applications available Desktop analysis Courses preparation
Mid 2001 (?) Migration starting
End 2001 (?) NICE 95/NT frozen
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NICE 2000 Main features

• Applications are local
• Faster to start
• Resilient to network/server failures
• Centrally managed using MSI/Group Policy
• Redirected My Documents
• Files are cached locally
• Resilient to network/server failures
• Can be made permanently available for laptop
  users
• You always carry your data, backed up on return
• Modern, Robust Operating System
• Stability
• Over 100 days uptime demonstrated
• Plug Play
• Most hardware is supported, including USB, large
  disks, GSM, Cameras etc
• Ideal for portable computers

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NICE 2000 Applications

• Assigned to computer
• Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.05
• CERN Printing Package
• CERN Phone Book
• Microsoft Office 2000
• Access 2000
• Excel 2000
• Outlook 2000
• PowerPoint 2000
• Word 2000
• Norton AntiVirus
• RealPlayer Basic
• WinZip
• Zephyr

• Published to User
• Active Perl
• Adobe Framemaker DreamWeaver 3
• Exceed 7
• FileMaker Pro 4.1
• GSView 3.4
• Labview
• Microsoft Publisher
• Microsoft Project
• Microsoft VisualStudio 6
• PS Controls

• Being made available
• AFS Client
• CERN NewsReader
• Netscape
• Communicator
• Messenger
• Corel Suite
• Engineering Application
• Oracle clients and tools

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NICE 2000 tools documentation

• Group Manager
• Quota Manager
• Trustee Manager
• Erase Roaming Profile
• Reset Password
• Recreate Computer Account

• Documentation
• http//cern.ch/win
• ACB, 802.11
• Installation floppy

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NICE 2000/NT/95 coexistence

• Home directories shared
• J for NICE 95/NT
• My Documents for NICE 2000
• \\cern.ch\dfs\Users\h\hemmer
• \\cerndfs01\dfs\Users\h\hemmer
• Office format compatible
• Except Access 97/2000
• Phone book allows mapping
• Divisional servers have not chnaged
• Although they should in the future
• \\cern.ch\Divisions\ST\

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NICE 2000 Main problems

• Under configured/unsupported hardware
• NT4 Windows 2000 coexistence
• New application management model
• New tools not always perfect
• Centrally managed application will interfere with
  the (same) ones manually installed
• Non centrally managed applications can be done
  manually (although not recommended) no
  interference with Z
• Address books/bookmarks automatic migration
• Applications accessing directly hardware
• Games CD Writers etc.

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NICE 2000 Today
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Summary

• NICE 2000 available now
• With a basic set of applications
• By mid year 2001
• New desktops with NICE 2000
• Plan to start a migration
• Together with the divisions
• By 3Q 2001
• Engineering applications
• By end 2001
• NICE 95/NT frozen (to be agreed)
• We should then have one single (robust) Windows
  platform, with a clear support model for
  applications