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streaming video

Ok; you can see these in the Page Drafts part of the blog but here’s the content for the standard streaming page for when you make a post:

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This live streaming video feed has been optimized for standard connections such as desktop computers. If you would prefer our streaming video feed optimized for mobile devices such as iPod, iPad, iPhones and the like, please visit this page: http://robots.law.miami.edu/live-video-stream-for-mobile-devices

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And here’s the content for the mobile device page:

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This live streaming video feed has been optimized for mobile devices such as iPod, iPad, iPhones and the like. If you would prefer our standard streaming video feed, please visit this page: http://robots.law.miami.edu/live-video-stream

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As long as you’ve got the bracketed markup in there, the appropriate video windows will show up. You’ll have to change the text to reflect the URLs of the posts. I don’t know the URL where the archived video will go, sorry.

PariPassu

Conf Str 2

Conference Streaming Test

maint 25feb2010

Project Name: WSUS Updates Approval (Defender)
Priority: 1
Project Participants: Richard Henderson
Projected Downtime: N/A
Server(s) Affected: wsus-01
Service(s) Affected: Windows Update
Objective: Approve for distribution to Workstations relevant available updates from Microsoft

Project Name: SAN Space Recovery
Priority: 2
Project Participants: Richard Henderson
Projected Downtime: About 10 minutes per server
Server(s) Affected: CG-01, MADISON, WEBAPPPS-01, WSS-01, WSUS-01
Service(s) Affected:
Objective: Recover approximately 83 GB from unused disk space not from the boot partition.

CG-01
Drive E:\
Current Size: 17.03 GB
Used Space: 0.14 GB
Desired Size: 10.03 GB
Recover: 7.00 GB

MADISON
Drive D:\
Current Size: 25.36 GB
Used Space: 0.32 GB
Desired Size: 12.36 GB
Recover: 13.00 GB

WEBAPPS-01
Drive E:\
Current Size: 42.07 GB
Used Space: 0.87 GB
Desired Size: 22.07 GB
Recover: 20.00 GB

WSS-01 – DONE
Drive E:\
Current Size: 72.65 GB
Used Space: 0.15 GB
Desired Size: 32.65 GB
Recover: 40.00 GB

WSUS-01 – DONE
Drive E:\
Current Size: 29.44 GB
Used Space: 5.11 GB
Desired Size: 16.44 GB
Recover: 13.00 GB

Project Name: WordPress Updates
Priority: 3
Project Participants: David Piniella
Projected Downtime: 3-5 minutes per blog as it’s updated
Server(s) Affected: blog-01
Service(s) Affected: RES IPSA and Student Services
Objective: Apply latest WordPress security updates

Project Name: IronMail Update from 6.5.4 to 6.7.2
Priority: 4
Project Participants: David Piniella
Projected Downtime: None, MX-01 will be active
Server(s) Affected: MX-02
Service(s) Affected: None
Objective: Upgrade to latest version of IronMail software. Will do MX-01 next week.

Project Name: Reboot NAP-01 – DONE
Priority: 5
Project Participants: Damian Silvera
Projected Downtime: Time it takes to complete a reboot
Server(s) Affected: NAP-01
Service(s) Affected:
Objective: Reboot NAP-01

maint 18feb10

Project Name:  WSUS Updates Approval (Defender)
Priority:  1
Project Participants:  Richard Henderson
Projected Downtime:  N/A
Server(s) Affected:  wsus-01
Service(s) Affected:  Windows Update
Objective: Approve for distribution to Workstations relevant available updates from Microsoft

Project Name: Microsoft Updates for Servers (Reboot required)
Priority: 2
Project Participants:  Richard Henderson
Projected Downtime:  Time it takes to complete a reboot
Server(s) Affected:  See Below
Service(s) Affected: Citrix, SQL databases
Objective: Apply latest Microsoft Updates to Servers

VM’s:
ADMITM-01, AMICUS-01, APPTEST, BES-01 (reboot late), CA-01, CG-01, DAYTONA, DIR-01, dublin, MADISON, OWA-02 (reboot late), pdc-02, pdc-05, pdc-06, PRJ-01, sps-01, SQL-03, SQL-04, SQL-06, sql-10, SYSDEV-01, WEBAPPS-01, WEBUPDATES-01

PHYSICAL SERVERS:
BOGOTA
HAVANA
HD-01
KVS-02 (Telefonica)
OWA-01 (reboot late)
PDC-03
PDC-04 (Telefonica)
PHOENIX
PS-02
PS-03
PS-04
PS-05
PS-06
SPOTLIGHT-01
SQL-01
SQL-05 (Telefonica)
WEBAPPS

Project Name:  Applying Adobe Acrobat & Reader Critical Updates (affects only Acrobat & Reader 9.3 and 8.2) – Reboot required in some cases (don’t forget to update your own PC)
Priority: 3
Project Participants:  Richard Henderson
Projected Downtime: Time to complete reboot if necessary
Server(s) Affected:  EXAM-04, HD-01, IMAGE, KVS-01, NAP-01, PRAGUE, PS-02 thru PS-06, SPOTLIGHT-01, TS-01 thru TS-06, WEBUPDATES-01, WINDOWS7
Service(s) Affected: PDFs
Objective: Apply updates to fix several critical flaws

Project Name:  Applying Adobe Flash Player Critical Update (new version 10.0.45.2) – Don’t forget to update your own PC if you have it installed
Priority: 4
Project Participants:  Richard Henderson
Projected Downtime: None
Server(s) Affected:  ENCODE-01, NAP-01, PS-02 thru PS-06, WEBUPDATES-01, WSS-02
Service(s) Affected: Flash Player
Objective: Apply update to fix critical flaw

Project Name:  wordpress updates
Priority:  5
Project Participants:  David Piniella
Projected Downtime:  3-5 minutes per blog as it’s updated.
Server(s) Affected:  blog-01
Service(s) Affected:  all blogs except res ipsa and student services
Objective: latest wordpress security updates

Project Name:  mediawiki updates
Priority:  6
Project Participants:  David Piniella
Projected Downtime:  15-45 minutes, DB schema update & rebuild
Server(s) Affected:  wiki-01
Service(s) Affected:  all wikis on wiki-01
Objective: latest mediawiki security updates

Maint 7jan2010

Project Name:  WSUS Updates Approval (Reboot required, community message needs to be sent out)
Priority:  1
Project Participants:  Richard Henderson
Projected Downtime:  N/A
Server(s) Affected:  wsus-01
Service(s) Affected:  Windows Update
Objective: Approve for distribution to Workstations relevant available updates from Microsoft

Project Name:  Apply Update 5 to Virtual Center vcpd01 (VC at Telefonica already at Update 5)
Priority:  2
Project Participants:  Richard Henderson
Projected Downtime:  N/A
Server(s) Affected:  vcpd01 (no VMs will be affected)
Service(s) Affected:  VI Client
Objective:  Go from Update 4 to Update 5 Build 174841 7/10/09.  This also updates the VI Client and VMware Tools.   Highlight:  significant performance and scalability improvements to VMware HA.  This update should be applied before updating the ESX Hosts.

Project Name:  Enable VT in BIOS to ESX Hosts to Handle 64-bit Guest Operating Systems (to be performed along side Project 4 and possibly Project 5)
Priority:  3
Project Participants:  Richard Henderson
Projected Downtime:  1 Hour (Projects 3+4+5+6)
Server(s) Affected:  vipd03
Service(s) Affected: None
Objective:  Enable VT feature in BIOS to allow installations of 64-bit operating systems like Windows 2008 Server (UM only offering 64-bit version of Win 2008)

Project Name:  Apply Update 5 to ESX Host vipd03
Priority:  4
Project Participants:  Richard Henderson
Projected Downtime:  1 Hour (Projects 3+4+5+6)
Server(s) Affected:  vipd03 and VMs will be migrated to other hosts
Service(s) Affected:  None
Objective:  Go from Update 4 to Update 5 Build 207095 12/3/09.  Some highlights:  updated Broadcom NIC driver (what we have), support for guest OS like Windows 7 (32/64-bit), Windows 2008 Server (64-bit), Ubuntu 9.04 (32/64-bit), updated VMTools, memory leak solution (per VMware Support).  Will apply to one ESX Host per week.  Telefonica’s two ESX Hosts will be done onsite at a future date.

Project Name:  Apply IBM Recommended Firmware Upgrades
Priority:  5
Project Participants:  Richard Henderson
Projected Downtime:  1 Hour (Projects 3+4+5+6)
Server(s) Affected: vipd03
Service(s) Affected:  None
Objective: Install IBM recommended firmware upgrades (BIOS, CPLD, ServeRAID SAS Controller).  If applicable, plan on doing this task last after applying the Vmware updates noted above.

Project Name:  Onboard Broadcom NIC Testing on vipd03
Priority:  6
Project Participants: Richard Henderson
Projected Downtime:  1 Hour
Server(s) Affected:  vipd03
Service(s) Affected: None
Objective: Determine if one of two ports on the onboard dual NIC is bad

Project Name:  Applying Service Packs to SPS-01
Priority:  7
Project Participants:  Richard Henderson
Projected Downtime: 30-60 minutes
Server(s) Affected:  sps-01
Service(s) Affected:  Windows SharePoint 2007
Objective: Apply two Service Packs:  SharePoint 3.0 SP2 and Office 2007 Server SP2

Project Name:  blog updates
Priority:  8
Project Participants:  David Piniella
Projected Downtime:  N/A
Server(s) Affected:  blog-01 and all blogs hosted on blog-01
Service(s) Affected:  blogs on blog-01
Objective: update wordpress version to 2.9.1 for all blogs possible and update all plugins

Project Name:  A/C Servicing POSTPONED, SmartAir did not show
Priority:  9
Project Participants:  Smart Air
Projected Downtime:  4 hours
Server(s) Affected: Hopefully none
Service(s) Affected:  Cooling in G183
Objective: See e-mail below