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Bear Access Fall 2006: 

Bear Access Fall 2006 Dan Bartholomew (drb1@cornell.edu) Lee Brink (lcb5@cornell.edu) April 19, 2006

System Requirements: 

System Requirements Macintosh:  Mac OS X, version 10.2 or higher Software and services that are already installed on earlier versions of Mac OS 9.1 and above may continue to work but these services will not be updated and may stopped working without notice.. New applications developed in the future, however, may not be tested on unsupported versions of Mac OS and may not work properly on these older systems. The Bear Access 2006 installer will not run on Mac OS 9.x. Windows: Windows XP Prior versions of Windows receive only limited support from Microsoft as described in Microsoft Product Lifecycle Information.  Software and services that are already installed on older Windows systems may continue to work but these services will not be updated and may stopped working without notice. New applications developed in the future, however, may not be tested on unsupported versions of Windows and may not work properly on these older systems.  The Bear Access Fall 2006 installer will not run on older systems.

BASIL (Sombrero) Update: 

BASIL (Sombrero) Update Bear Access Software Installer & Launcher Fall 2006 Initial release Jan 2007 “BASIL” becomes default in uPortal Runway (Windows Only) and Salsa Launch Pad still available June 2007 – Retire Salsa server SALSA Fall 2006 will be the last release of Bear Access using the Salsa Infrastructure.

Release Information: 

Release Information Release Dates Tuesday June 6th (Macintosh) Tuesday June 20th (Windows) Fall 2006 Test Installers (tentative) http://www.cit.cornell.edu/bearaccess/testing/fall06-test.html Operating System Requirements Macintosh OS X 10.2 or higher Windows XP

Infrastructure/Kerberos Changes: 

Infrastructure/Kerberos Changes Windows Sidecar will be upgraded from 5.0.7.3 to 5.0.7.4 to fix a problem with it crashing under VPN connections. Macintosh CASD (system level routine that talks to the user level sidecar) will be upgraded from 2.6 to 2.7 to fix a prompt problem.

Services Changes - Windows: 

Services Changes - Windows Thunderbird 1.5.x will replace Eudora In an effort to be responsive to the requests from users, we are replacing the Eudora mail client with Thunderbird.   Version 1.5 of Thunderbird supports both SSL and Kerberos access to the post offices and offers the ability to search our LDAP directory using either a person's NetID or their Name.  Thunderbird should be able to migrate your existing settings,  mailboxes and nicknames, but filters do not get migrated.  In addition to configuring LDAP, we will turn off the auto updating feature of Thunderbird. We will be meeting with members of the ITMC to discuss transitioning WS_FTP will be replaced by Filezilla. WS_FTP has not been supported by the vendor in several years and lacks support for newer connections types such as SSL and sFTP. Filezilla does not support file transfers with CornellC or CRNLMVS therefore, we will move WS_FTP to the Admin package.

Services Changes (Windows): 

Services Changes (Windows) HostExplorer Version 2006 (Telnet Client) We plan to upgrade to the latest release of Hummingbird HostExplorer 2006 (we are 6 releases back level) which has the ability to provide additional connection options, but it does not support the host initiated Uploads and Downloads used by some users of CornellC. Since HostExplorer 2006 and HostExplorer 6 can not co-exist we plan to move the existing CornellC entry (under Campus Host) to the Admin channel (under Campus Hosts) of uPortal.Cornell. The Campus Host folder in the main Bear Access channel will NOT contain a HostExplorer entry for CornellC. This change is also associated with the upcoming release of VISTA and BASIL. Symantec AntiVirus Version 10.1.x Thunderbird News Reader 1.5.x

Services Changes (Macintosh): 

Services Changes (Macintosh) Thunderbird 1.5.x will replace Eudora PowerPC: Norton AntiVirus will be upgraded to version 10.x on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or 10.3 (Panther) and remain at version 9.0.3 on Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) MacIntel: Norton AntiVirus 10.0 installer runs and Symantec fails, but after Live Update runs, Symantec gets updated to10.1 and then it works. (Until an installer is released that works properly)

Services Changes (Macintosh) (cont): 

Services Changes (Macintosh) (cont) Fetch will be upgraded to 5.0.5. (or 5.1 if available) Thunderbird news reader 1.5.x.

Folder Changes: 

Folder Changes CUTV -> My Accounts A link will be added to the CUTV web site for signing up for CUTV (available to students in residence halls and departments).

Questions: 

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