Minutes of Workgroup Solutions Team Day

WST Team Day

Tuesday 15 May 2007

Round Table - All

• Application Linker
  • Could be turned into a Vista Gadget?
• Working together
  • Can Tim help me with UPC?

Server Migration – David Bulog

• Budget $350K
  • 5 new boxes = “blade” servers
  • 3 old boxes = DR
• Can DR servers be set up with Replication?
  • No they can’t
  • Not allowed to be hot-swappable
  • Budget constraint
• Windows Server 2003
  • Is IIS6 standard?
  • Is IIS7 a Service Pack upgrade?
• Move DTS package from PROD to SSIS on DEV (can still push to PROD).
  • Send to Dave?

Word from the Top – Murray Mitchell

• Structural Changes
  • Wellington App Dev Manager role happening “soon” (2 weeks)
  • Capability (training) Manager also happening tomorrow
  • Identity and Access Management – Meta-directory (Novell product) project to maintain/synchronise identities. Now Sun product is option (Novell difficult to engage).
  • Peter Hill – service response reporting.
• Operating Model Reviews
  • PROBE – major problems
  • Meta-space
  • Mobile Devices
• Operational Separation
  • Is immanent
  • SAP teams will be hit hard
  • Has implications for our work for Wholesale
  • Shared Capability will remain as an entity with clear rules of engagement
• Engagement scores
  • Completed
  • To be released soon after analysis
• Very dependable team
  • no red flags
  • no head count issues
  • recruitment drive in the market generating considerable interest = 200 applications

WST Issues - Mike Owen

• Training – will be approved on a case-by-case basis
• Separation – will need to stay aware
• Tech Mahindra – will make ourselves available to assist them to assist us by explaining our needs for contract resources.
• Performance Reviews

Team Standards – Norman Close

• Database – Norman will create a document
• ASP.NET – James will create a document
• CMM – Team will not attempt to obtain an objective measure of standards, but will adhere to Best Practices as/when they become known

(Break for lunch)

New Stuff – Megha Barpande

• Use of Empty Data Template to present Details View embedded in Grid View
• Use of 3-tier – difficult to understand initially, but now very easy to implement and maintain.
• Grid View (design mode) will not show Enable Editing option, if the underlying Object Data Source doesn’t allow editing.
• Themes – for consistent look and feel

New Stuff – James

• SQL Migration Scripts
• Master Pages
• Forms Authentication & Authorisation
• Site Map, Site Navigation & Bread crumbs