Campus Labs – Milne – Pro Tools software

The Pro Tools software has been deployed to all of the Macs in Milne, for better or for worse, and most of the machines have been rebooted.

And the shutdown/restart/ and now logout problem is alive and kicking. I have tested several machines in Milne and they have all exhibited issues shutting down. I was incorrect earlier.

The dock doesn’t disappear, just the Apple Menu, but the shutdown problem still happens exactly as described earlier.

Fortunately, we only have to live with this until the end of the Winter term 2016, and then we’ll be able to take Pro Tools off of the machines, hopefully for good.

Box Cloud Storage

The university is in the process of purchasing Box via Internet2 Net+.

Box will be the officially recommended cloud storage and collaboration tool starting Fall term 2016. A significant advantage of Box over both Google Drive and OneDrive is the fact that files can be owned by the institution and not evaporate when user accounts are deprovisioned.

The plan is to move most personal and department shares (e.g. CN-Home, CN-Share, and ONID-FS) to Box storage.  We will be testing a number of use cases to ensure that everything will work well.

Edit (3/9/2016): Box will not be approved for any PII data, so not all storage will be on Box. It is a bit unclear at this time how much of our department share data will be moved there, and that probably won’t happen by Fall.

Also in the scope of this initial deployment is integration with Office 365 and Kumo.

We will have access to test Box soon, and I will share that information as we get it.