The shared storage file server UISData1 was migrated from a physical machine to a virtual machine during the afternoon this past Sunday. This migration will allow us to grow the space for departmental files and allow us to consolidate several other file servers into a single server.

All of the rights assignments to the individual files and folders have been replicated to the new system, so there should be few if any access issues that users should encounter this morning. However, if you hear of any problems with people not being able to access their files on UISData1, please have them contact the helpdesk and we’ll ensure that the issue is resolved promptly.

Thanks!

Curtis

Everyone is happy and healthy.

Today is Administrative Professionals Day. Don’t forget to let our super admin pros, Denise and Katy, know that their hard work, professionalism and dedication is noticed and appreciated.

New Polycom HDX video conferencing systems have been installed
in HSB 132 and BRK180G.  Classrooms UHB 3080 and BRK 141A will also have
upgraded Polycom HDX video conferencing systems by the end of the week. 
These systems will retain their existing H.323 public IP addresses to receive
calls from outside video conferencing systems. All four Polycom video
conferencing systems are registered via SIP with the campus MS Lync server,
which means they can make and receive calls from MS Lync clients.  Below is
a picture of a video call from a Lync client to the HSB 132 Polycom system.

In order to make a video call from Lync to the Polycom systems
you need to search for their service accounts in Lync.  The service
accounts are:

HSB132VC (HSB 132 HDX 6000 Video Conferencing)

BRK180GVC (BRK 180 HDX 7000 Video Conferencing)

BRK141AVC (BRK 141A HDX 8000 Video Conferencing)

UHB3080VC (UHB 3080 HDX 8000 Video Conferencing)

After you find the service accounts in Lync (See below) you can
connect to them by right clicking the Lync service account and clicking on Start
a Video Call.   All four systems are configured to auto answer point
to point calls.

The nice thing about this is that with the Lync client and an
internet connection you can join a video conference from anywhere.  You
don’t have to be on campus to join.  The supported bandwidth ranges for
each resolution available in the Microsoft RTV codec are CIF (352×288 50 – 250
Kbps), VGA (640×480 350 – 600 Kbps) and HD (720p) (1280×720 800 – 1500 Kbps.)

A quad-core processor is required on the Lync client’s computer
in order to support both sending and receiving of 720p high definition video for
two-party calls. Without a quad-core processor, the video on the Lync client’s
computer will be either CIF or VGA.

The campus Lync server supports multiparty video conferences via
it’s Lync AV Multipoint Control Unit (MCU).  The maximum resolution size of
the Lync  AVMCU is VGA (640 * 480). 

The Polycom system in BRK 180G has a 4-way Multipoint Processor
Plus license which enables it to have a 4 port bridge capability.

The campus MS Lync server uses the
netid@uis.edu as the sip address when
accounts are enabled.  Therefore, to call a Lync user from the Polycom’s
simply type their email (see below) 

You can also call a Lync user from the Polycom’s by going to
Directory/UISAD Directory and searching for the user (See below)

On the HDX Polycom systems you can go to the Calendar under
System/Utilities/Calendar to see and join Online Meeting invitations.

The Polycom HDX systems can share desktop content. The computer input content
is pushed to the video conference using the H.239 protocol or Polycom
People+Content by connecting a laptop/PC via DVI cable to the Polycom units. 
Unfortunately, at this time it is not possible to share content from the MS Lync
client’s desktop to the Polycom.

The Polycom HDX systems are operated using a remote control. The picture
below shows how to use the Polycom HDX remote control.

The Polycom HDX User Guide can be found on: 

http://supportdocs.polycom.com/PolycomService/support/global/documents/support/user/products/video/hdxroom_ug.pdf

We are going to update the program to use the Velocity API that makes changes to the Velocity Database on Tuesday, April 24^th at 1:00 PM.

Please join us on Thursday, April 19, 2012, at 4:00 p.m. in the PAC Restaurant as Chancellor Koch announces the recipient of the 2012 Chancellor’s Academic Professional Excellence (CAPE) Award. The CAPE Award honors all Academic Professionals at UIS by recognizing one outstanding AP each year. This year’s nominees are:

Dana Atwell
Clarice Ford
Beth Hoag
Jim Korte
Tulio Llosa
Chrisa Potthast-Leezer
Donna Schaub
Richard Schuldt
Barbara Selvaggio
Evan Stanley
Thomas Wood

Take this opportunity to meet and congratulate this year’s honoree. Refreshments and a cash bar will be available.

Katy Owen

It looks like we have found the issue that was causing this error. The database had the previous data from Fall 2011(which has been deleted now) and when the application tried to fetch the data it was returning multiple rows.

The online evaluation website had a server error, which we solved it for now and are trying to find the exact cause as we have couple of things that might have been causing this error.

Students could not log in to the website ‘https://uisapp-s.uis.edu/evaluation/ for evaluation as there was a data error which has been solved now.

For those planning time off, please remember to post it on the ITS Calendar.
Thanks! – Katy