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• Current Projects

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Current Projects:

The following is a list of current standards committee projects. The listed "owner" of a project is the central coordinator of the listed item. Listed "contacts" are individuals who will be working closely with the process owner.

All communications (questions, or comments) concerning any particular project should be directed through the project's owner or a listed contact.

• Scumware Prevention and Remediation tools
  Spyware and other maliscious software is consuming huge amounts of support resources and poses threats to the security of information at UVM. There are tools to prevent infection and to aid in recovery.
  Contacts: Dean Williams (CIT Client Services) and Ben Schacher (College of Nursing and Health Sciences; CIT Client Services)

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Proposed Projects:

The following projects have been suggested for review for the standards committee and are awaiting a volunteer to head the effort:

• Web Browsers
  Phase out support for Netscape, replace it with Mozilla products
  
  
• Supported Hardware Famlies
  Recommended Manufacturere/Models for Printers, Scanners, Desktop Computers
  
  
• Palm-top Computing
  Supported device list - Palm/Handspring vs Windows CE and recommended supporting software.

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Completed Projects:

The following projects have been "closed" by the standards committee. In most cases, the findings of these projects were published in the Standards Committee support statement released June 2001.

• OS Support - 2002
  Support Sunsets for Windows 98, Mac OS 8.x
  Introduce support for Windows XP
  
  Office Applications Support - 2002
  Support Sunsets for Office 97
  Introduce support for Office XP, "Office X" for Mac OS X
  
• Office Application Suite Support- 2001
  Legacy phase out, New Office Suite support
  Discontinue: MS Office 4,95
  Support: Office 97,2K
  Owner: Geoff Duke
  
• OS Support- 2001
  Legacy phase out, New OS support
  Discontinue: DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Mac OS 7
  Support: Windows 2000
  Owner: Dean Williams
  
• Telnet Replacement (Secure Shell)
  The committee has identified NiftyTelnet+SSH and Secure Communications SSH as the supported SSH client standards for the UVM campus.
  See the SSH Evaluation Matix for details on the products considered in the making of this decision.
  Contact: Greg MacKinnon
   
• Email Clients
  Eudora (3, 5), Netscape Messenger (4, 6), Outlook Express, Pine, Web Mail
  Owner: Geoff Duke
   
• Anti-Virus Software
  Symantec/Norton, Trend OfficeScan, McAfee
  Owner: Lynne Meeks
  Contact: Greg MacKinnon
  
• Database Software/Web Database
  Contacts: Doug Varney

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