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||Completed||Priority||Locked||CreatedDate||CompletedDate||Assignee||Name||
|F|M|F|1269356543241|          |bskinner@mit.edu|Blake to produce updated Base VM - Thu 4/1|
|F|M|F|1269356597196|          |bbulmer@mit.edu|Brian to make Admin Staff VM - Thu 4/8|
|F|M|F|1269356489901|          |bblumer@mit.edu|Brian to send Blake the Security Policy - Fri 3/19|
|F|M|F|1269356573779|          |jmhunt@mit.edu|Jon to make Student VM - Thu 4/8|
|F|M|F|1269357442722|          |jmhunt@mit.edu|Blake to explore Mirroring My Documents and Desktop on Windows host under VMware Workstation|
|T|M|F|1269358072290|1269524564526|lmrobin@mit.edu|Lisa to send Blake url (placeholder) for Base VM launch page - asap|
|T|M|F|1269358110820|1269358119714|jmhunt@mit.edu|Jon to send Meeting Minutes|
|F|M|F|1269358117808|          |jmhunt@mit.edu|Jon to schedule next meeting|

Status of various builds on top of base- Brian and Jon

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Thanks to OIS, we have a working large file download server that we can leverage to deploy the VMs.  https://downlaodsdownloads.mit.edu/&nbsp^{Image Removed}; We can leverage access limitations using MIT Certificates based on the standard user, group, or MIT and the new feature is also to be able to limit access based on affiliation: student, staff (including faculty) and affiliate.  Patrick and Jon have the details on configuring this, but it is very similar to the standard .htaccess.mit configuration.

Additional Items Discussed

Decided to use Drupal to host the starting page because it will keep a more consistent look and feel for the pages they would link to from there. Lisa will get the url to Blake for the base image.

Decided to use single disk file rather than the 2GB snippets.

No major concerns from Help Desk regarding support, but they want the documentation in place sooner rather than later.

Prefer for distribution to have a stub page before the Admin VM that provides the warnings and sets expectations.

We brainstormed a list of documentation that needs to be generated.

• 1st launch page
• Which VM to choose (could be a wizard or page)?
• Installation of VMware (already done)
• What is Mirroring and Shared Folders
• What settings have been modified on each VM?
• Using VM between platforms (can come later)
• What is a VM? (maybe already done)
• Why not to store data in a VM?
• How to change/upgrade VMs? Spring to Fall one (include checklist for old VM)
• How to snapshot VM?
• Licensing information MSCA details (white box/linux)
• Printing documentation

Will need to coordinate with Heather on a plan.