[Macpartners] IS Software Update for October 2003

[Deb Bowser]

Date: Thursday October 30, 2003
To:  Members of the MIT Community: itpartners at mit.edu, 
macpartners at mit.edu, winpartners at mit.edu, 
sw-release-announce at mit.edu, ed-tech at mit.edu
From: Software Release Team <swrt at mit.edu>
Subj: IS Software Update for October 2003
Cc:  infosys at mit.edu, itag at mit.edu, kakapo at mit.edu


Spotlight:
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In light of recent problems with MIT being e-mail blacklisted, 
efforts are underway to move towards requiring SMTP Authentication. 
Information and instructions on configuring popular e-mail clients 
for SMTP Authentication will be available at 
http://web.mit.edu/is/topics/email/.  The current MIT customized 
Eudora 5.2.x installers will automatically configure SMTP 
Authentication.  As documentation for other clients is available, you 
will be able to find it on that page.



MacOS X - Enterprise-wide application support available
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The Business Process Owners announce MacOS X support for the 
following enterprise-wide applications:
Adonis, BrioQuery, Coeus, Graduate Admissions, MITID, Roles, SAPgui, SumMIT

Additionally, all secure web services (CaseTracker, SAPweb, WebSIS, 
etc.) are available and supported under MacOS X with Netscape 7.02.

Support for these applications under MacOS X has been gradual and as 
of September 2003 is complete.

The SAPgui v 6.20 is available natively for MacOS X while Adonis, 
BrioQuery, Coeus, Graduate Admissions, MITID, Roles and SAPgui w/IXOS 
support is available via the MIT Citrix Service, 
<http://citrix.mit.edu/>.  All applications remain available to run 
in "classic" under MacOS X.


Recent Releases (Macintosh & Windows)
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The team focused release efforts on products that were included on 
the MIT Fall 2003 CD.  As a result, we did not release any new 
products this month.  Release efforts for a number of products have 
begun and plans to release are on track.


Volume Site License Distribution
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IS is accepting online requests for Windows XP Professional from 
students who are currently running Windows 95, 98, NT 4, or ME.  To 
request a license for Windows XP Professional follow the Windows link 
from  http://web.mit.edu/is/products/vsls/.

IS is accepting online requests for Mac OS X 10.3 from faculty and 
staff for Institute owned machines.  To request a license follow the 
Mac OS at MIT link from http://web.mit.edu/is/products/vsls/.  There 
will be a delay in fulfilling orders initially while we await the 
arrival of media from Apple.


Software Release Efforts Underway (Linux)
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OpenAFS - Release Effort Underway - January 2004


Software Release Efforts Underway (Macintosh)
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Mac OS 10.3 - 30-day evaluation underway - November 2003
MIT TechTime on Oracle Calendar 9.0.4 (OS X) - December 2003
TSM 5.1.5 (OS 9) - Release effort underway - November 2003
TSM 5.2 (OS X) - Release effort underway - November 2003


Software Release Efforts Underway (Windows)
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MIT TechTime on Oracle Calendar 9.0.4 - December 2003
WinZephyr 1.1 - Release effort on hold - TBD
Office 2003 - Release effort about to begin - TBD

To view any of the product release notebooks, please visit our page:
http://web.mit.edu/swrt


Contact Us
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How are we doing?  Please take a moment to let us know and provide 
valuable feedback to the team:
http://web.mit.edu/swrt/feedback.html


If you prefer to send e-mail, we would appreciate any questions and 
comments you may have. Please send them to the Software Release Team 
at <swrt at mit.edu>.


Deb Bowser
IS Software Release Team