May 18 OS X Dev Meeting

Participants:
Dave Pugh
Vlad Miskevich
Jeremy Hallum
Jeff Kopmanis
Todd Austin
Dave Glaser
Mark Montague
Karen Pachla
Jan Stweart
Ahmed 

WWDC Planning meeting
next Tuesday's meeting is cancelled
We'll talk about WWDC at next Wednesday's meeting, and go into lunch if need be

Vlad to join Entourage testing

Dave working on AFP server bug, narrowing down cause, will work with Apple to resolve

Changes to the OS and preferences:
In previous versions:
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsait/AdminTools/osx/changes.html
Appearance: no changes
Dashboard & Expose: no changes
Desktop & Screensavers: LSA desktop & Greg's pics for screensaver
Dock: no changes save the bouncing icons!
International: no changes
Security: Require password to wake this from sleep or screen saver,
   Disable automatic login
   Do NOT require password to unlock screensavers
   Do NOT use secure virtual memory
Spotlight: no changes (maybe ignore /afs if it searches there)
Bluetooth: no changes
CDs & DVDs: no changes
Displays: no changes
Energy Saver: Sleep disabled, harddisk sleep enabled, screen sleep 15 minute, user can change these
Keyboard & Mouse: no changes
Fax & Print: no changes
Sound: no changes
.Mac: no changes
Network: PPP settings as before
Quicktime: leave it as 'Automatic' (this is a change from Panther)
Sharing: Hostname set, Remote login enabled, firewall enabled
   Firewall: open iChat and iTunes and NTP ports by default
   Firewall advanced features: Block UDP?, no logging, Stealth Mode
Accounts: Login Options: Disable auto login, loginwindow=name&password,
   no fast user switching, no input menu, no voiceover, no password hints
   no fast user switching
Classic: (not in use)
Date & Time: use ntp.itd.umich.edu, Timezone: Detroit
Software Update: maybe use a local software update server?
Speech: no changes
Startup Disk: no changes
Universal Access: no changes
   
For next time- 
Gretchen - docs
Jeff - Matlab R14 SP2, CUPS (client only)
Jeremy - packagemaker, DarwinPorts
Karen, Vlad - Entourage testing
Firewall UDP blocking - how's it working?
Add manpages to spotlight index path?
Dave: should we re-vamp our directory services setup on the servers when we upgrade them to Tiger?  Maybe use automatic replication?  Just connect to UMOD and use ACLs?  Create groups for ARD access?

OUTSTANDING TO-DOs:
Make Kerberized-Console default in install (dpugh)
Make KFM-PAM by default (dpugh)
Configure Spotlight to stay out of AFS
Make Tiger NBI (dpugh)
Update to Xcode2 (dpugh)
Unix pkgs (Jeremy)
Software Update Server & plist & removal pkg (dpugh)
Applescript now has plist support, use as substitute for plist buddy (laustin)

SOFTWARE INCOMPATIBILITIES
- Matlab
- OpenAFS
- LDAP
- Kerberized Console
- Kerberized PAM? (UNTESTED)
- our KeyAccess pkg
- SPSS
- Fireworks (only works as admin)
- Flash (only works as admin)
- Adobe Reader 6
- Groupcal
External Sources report problems with:
- Photoshop
- Virtual PC
- Cisco VPN client
- Norton A/V (10.0 now shipping supposedly works)
- Virex
- Bittorent

OUTSTANDING TIGER BUGS THAT ARE SHOWSTOPPERS:
LDAP
Kerberized Console
AFP on server (fixed?)
WWDC Issues to bring up:
Tablet laptops (Sue)
Backup (from .Mac) for all machines (Scott)
Copy from old machine to new machine on first launch ability for all machines (Scott)