Day 11, The Last Day

Today our group met to work on our PowerPoint presentation. We went over all the documentation we had and separated the programs into categories. After each category we placed a problem and documentation slide to touch on any problems or information we gathered about a particular program. We also tried, with no success, to look up information about some of the other programs that we did not get a chance to test in windows 7. All in all the semester I spent over at ITS was a lot of fun. I've witnessed first hand what it's like to work in the IT field. I would like to thank Mike and Dr. Harting for the opportunity to spend some time in a real IT work environment.

Day 10

The last day I was at ITS we met with three contacts from our contact list. We received several pages of documentation on two of the programs from the housing department. We also had one of the database employees come over and help us test CS Gold and Image Now. Image now worked up until the most important part, screen scraping. However, we learned that the newest support for Image Now, coming out in June, will support the fix for this problem. CS Gold worked perfectly fine. Bruce showed us how the program worked and then we used our own 800 numbers to test the program. One of the other workers in ITS helped us install Image now but like I already said we couldn't get the most important feature to work. The documentation from Scott in housing told us that TMA has not announced a new version that has support for windows 7. The other program had a version out with workarounds but he did not have the program. Instead he gave us detailed documentation from clients that he knows has windows 7 installed and has gotten Odyssey to work.

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/22-common-windows-7-problems-solved-655655?artc_pg=1


This was an article I found that had 22 common problems with windows and ways to fix it.

Day 9

I'm a few days late on posting due to the holiday weekend. My day last week was rather slow. We read all the emails that our contacts sent us. We emailed everyone on the list again if they had not emailed us back yet. We were only able to set up one appointment for Thursday this week to test some of the housing programs in windows 7. So during the rest of the time we talked with Mike about some of the programs and determined we were going to eliminate the titanium program because it is not going to be used on campus for much longer. Hopefully we get a lot of email responses this week from people willing to help us out with testing their departments programs.

Day 8

Wasn't too much to be done today. We emailed all of the contacts who are suppose to be able to get us the programs we need to test and help us test them. So far only one of them has replied that he is available the week of April 5th. We also tested the new web mail service which seemed to work fine with IE8. However, Mike gave us an email he had received about problems with IE 6 and 7 that also explained how to get around the problem. It was as easy as setting Java to not update.

Day 7

Today Mike gave us a short list of programs today, however, most of them require the help of someone who has access to test or install the software. So today we tested the programs/apps that didn't require someones help. We installed and tested Mozilla's Thunderbird which worked fine. We also tested the student side of banner and everything worked fine. The rest of the programs on the list require someone with access to test or install. For the rest of the time today we helped move some of the old tangent stuff to a new room.

Day 6

Today about 10 of us took out 30 or so old monitors from a classroom and put in new ones. They didn't sit on shelves like some of the other classrooms so we had to take the holders off and screw them in to the new monitors. After that we loaded up all the old monitors into a van and brought them back to ITS to be stored. I did not have any extra time today to work on our project.