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Potential Needs

(This list is taken from the collaborative pad from UDS-R IT-Manager Session)

You are very welcome to add your needs to the list.

• Puppet/cfengine/etc used to control servers and clients (desktops)
  • No common rules shared between companies. Can we change that?
• Landscape: Who uses it for what?
  • Staged roll-outs (canary rollout)
  • Managing Updates
  • Internal landscape
  • Anything else we need to know?
  • Useful API Examples
• Secure printing
• Mass Deployment
  • Using MAAS and JUJU
  • Preseeding the alternative CD
  • Preseed dpgk-packages for silent install (in a script or with the alternative CD)
    • Citrix: sudo sh -c "echo icaclient icaclient/accepteula select true | debconf-set-selections"
      • sudo sh -c "echo ctxusb ctxusb/accepteula select true | debconf-set-selections"
    • Java (deprecated)
    • ttf-mscorefonts-installer: sudo sh -c "echo ttf-mscorefonts-installer msttcorefonts/accepted-mscorefonts-eula select true | debconf-set-selections"

    • Adobe not as default viewer (see http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Google-warns-of-using-Adobe-Reader-particularly-on-Linux-1668153.html)

      • → We should have something like charms in JuJu to define/run common tasks

• Active Directory Integration
  • VAS/QAS/DAS?
  • SSSD
  • Samba 4.0?
  • Likewise Open
  • Beyondtrust
  • Centrify
  • NSS-LDAP / Kerberos
• User Desktop preparation
  • Preinstall printers
  • Modify user desktop (starters, background, login)
  • GNOME / Unity Lockdown
• Private Packaging
  • Setup a own archive
  • Package existing (binary) software
    • → Verified 'Ubuntu in the Enterprise' team members should get a Private PPA on request
• Exchange Calendar integration with default mail client (Thunderbird)

  • http://www.1st-setup.nl/wordpress/?page_id=133

• Root logging
  • Logging all activity on the machine _after_ the user becomes root
• Is OpenJDK OK for the enterprise?
  • There are some applications, hardware solutions that require Oracles JDK
• Managed/Business Ubuntu community. The needs are:
  • people commitment

  • mailing list (perhaps on https://lists.ubuntu.com/)

  • A Launchpad Team: This would give us a ppa and a mailinglist
    • How open should the team be? Would new members have to apply? I'd say open group
  • wiki pages. There are some pages that started the effort but seemed to have been abandoned:

    • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Enterprise

    • https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CorporateUbuntu

  • forum topic?
  • submissions of howtos for particular topic (there's a lot of topics)
  • submissions of ready-made tools

• Enterprise Networking → https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EnterprisePlugNPlay

Other points to merge with the above list

• Read/Write NTFS partitions ??
• Active Directory Domain authentication
• MS Exchange connectivity

• MS Office compatibility -> LibreOffice/MS Office via the WINE project

• Logon scripts ??
• Group policy profiles ??
• VPN client
• Deployment options ??