August 31 2003

Hope Center

Monday August 31, 2003

Thomas Watkins Harry Harshaw

Meeting Place: Hope Center Wood stock Georgia Meeting time: 5:00pm to 11:00pm Hours of meeting: 6 Goal: 1. Finish upgrading Windows 9X machines to Windows XP 2. Apply Microsoft Security patches to newly installed XP workstations. Notes: Today was an easy day that did not have to many problems it was just time consuming the upgrade process from the current workstations to Windows XP was done on three of the machines. This proved to be resource consuming and that resource being time. Issues that I encountered where typical and expected. Since the machines where running the operating systems as listed below: Hope 5 = Windows 2000 Hope 3 = Windows ME Hope 4 = Windows 98 The printer drivers where not compatible with windows XP this problem was easily solved with going to the printer vendors web site and down loading the XP driver and loading it. The Anti- virus software associated with each PC was Norton/Systematic 2001. this is not compatible with Windows XP either so each machine needed Norton/Systematic 2003 Enterprise edition which the hope center is licensed for and currently has on hand. Setbacks: The Linksys Instant Broadband EtherFast Cable/DSL Firewall Router with 4-Port Switch/VPN endpoint was causing connectivity issues, which made updating the PCs through the Microsoft Windows update page impossible. This is not fixable at this time but I have decided to go out and purchase a new router.