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Re: [[cat-users]] Draft: Happy Deathday, Windows 7


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  • From: Hunter Fuller <hf0002 AT uah.edu>
  • To: Alan Buxey <alan.buxey AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: Stefan Winter <stefan.winter AT restena.lu>, eduroam CAT Feedback <cat-users AT lists.geant.org>
  • Subject: Re: [[cat-users]] Draft: Happy Deathday, Windows 7
  • Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 15:35:04 -0600

Alan,

I hear you, but UAH policy is that, once the vendor stops releasing
updates for an OS, it's not permitted on the University network. So
we'd like to disable Windows 7 support as well.

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Hunter Fuller
Router Jockey
VBH Annex B-5
+1 256 824 5331

Office of Information Technology
The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Network Engineering


On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 4:46 AM Alan Buxey <alan.buxey AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> maybe use the web server logs to check the user agents to see usage of
> the platform?
>
> whilst the institutions are hopefully on top of Windows releases and
> managed desktop platform etc migrated to Win10
> unless they have a very robust access policy (with client checks etc)
> its likely that students will be using Win7 for a
> much longer time on their network - alongside those machines for
> special purposes/hardware that still run WinXP I see
> Win7 junk lying around for years to come. as thats reality rather than
> the perfect word we'd like to live in.
>
> alan
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