Church IT Podcast episode 3 notes
Another great show ... thanks to all who participated! We had 19 live (phone) participants and 21 live streaming audio listeners ... that's 40 people! Already the show has been downloaded 18 times in the past 2 hours since the show aired ... amazing.
We've decided to do this every 1st and 3rd Friday afternoon at 2pm Eastern ... so mark your calendar now! Block out 2-3pm for the recorded show and 3-4pm for the post show dialogue ... come early and stay late :-)
After the show about 10 or so of us continued to yak for another hour ... we're considering also recording the "post show" chat as there's some great discussion going on then as well. Would people listen to a 2 hour podcast?
You can listen to the audio here ... http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=6983
Thanks to David Russell for gathering the following info and notes on the show ...
Participants
Jason Powell, Granger Community Church, IN, http://jpowell.blogs.com
Scott Reichland, Sagemont Church, TX
Trace Pupke, Seacoast Church, SC, http://tracepupke.com/blog
Jeff Garboden, Kevin Wiseman, Stephen Melendy, Meadowbrook Church, FL, http://mbcocala.com
Dave Clark, David Russell, National Community Church, DC, http://theaterchurch.com, http://thedigitalreformation
Bill Glick, Grace Community, http://findinggrace.com
Andrew Mitry, St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church, VA, http://anchorite.org
Chad Nygren, First Baptist Church (Kennewick), WA, http://fbckennewick.com, http://techchurch.blogspot.com
Derek Berg, Woodland Baptist Church (Bradenton), FL, http://mymindyourmonitor
Jason Kergosien, http://www.it-r.org
davidrh, OH, http://vineyardcolumbus.org
John DeSouza, IN, http://southlawnUMC.org
William Phelps, Calvary Chapel (Newport News), VA
Doug Hart, Saddleback Church, CA
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jeffrey
EliSommerset
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Thomas Caffrey
chris24
typefaze
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Randysouth
Todd
Samuel_Barrett
smelendy
jamesa
jcjennings
Show Notes
Antivirus / Antispyware
Jeffrey Thompson – Barracuda appliance not getting the job done. Selected Katharion and added 30 users.
Andrew Mitry – Was using Exchange filters. Added Katharion.
Jason – Postini has added new features to sync active directory to postini allowed email addresses.
JT – AVG home is good.
What AV is good for a Mac?
JP – GCC currently uses Webroot Spysweeper evaluating moving to Windows Defender.
Jgarboden – Changed user policies to prevent issues with spyware and removed antispyware software from machines.
JP – Pulled local admin rights.
Jgarboden – iTunes issues with burning programs still exist.
Someone – Switched to MX Logic for antispam.
Sam Barrett – Not running AV on Mac last five years with no problem.
Chad Nygren – Doing the same: no AV for Mac.
Doug Hart – Saddleback has large Mac population, running Symantec on all systems, Win/Mac.
Rundown at Saddleback:
PurposeDriven organization increasing their topography
165 servers, advantage non-distributed enviro
700 clients
65-70 Macs, rest PCs
60-70 thin clients that are being deprecated
2003 domain
Sma Barrett – McAfee, mostly satisfied.
Andrew Mitry – Evaluating PCcillin.
Cnygren – TrendMicro
JP – Webroot partnering with Sophos and producing all-in-one solution.
William Phelps – Used Computer Associates and TrendMicro. CA builds for Macs, TM poor customer support.
Lenovo Notebooks / Mac Users and Issues
JP – Migrating notebooks from Dell to IBM Lenovo. IBM support at 9:00 p.m. was American, not outsourced.
Users (especially creative) frustrated at aesthetic value of IBM notebooks.
Sam Barrett – same issues. Now they are 50/50 Mac/Win.
Using new VMware for running Win in Mac enviro.
DC – Mac training?
SB – Not much, just small questions here and there. He’s not a technology bigot. They use whatever tools work for the worker for productivity sake. No Apple server hardware, Windows 2003 r2 domain and a few Unix boxes. Apple connecting with SMB and authenticating to domain using Wifi.
Jason – Turned on Mac sharing on Win 03 r2, some sharing capability broke as a result. Standardizing media guys with Mac and Final Cut Pro. Hopefully Entourage improves.
DC – NCC uses Entourage.
SB – Mars Hill uses Entourage, has a few minor calendaring / sharing issues.
Cnygren – Using IMAP for mail on Mac.
JP – IMAP does circumvent those Entourage issues. They had issues with Entourage re-syncing in an endless cycle.
Cnygren – New version support RPC over HTTP?
SB – New version of Entourage does. *** Correction below.
JP – Next week, we may chat more about Mac.
JP – The future of the Church IT talkcast. New direction? Ways to market, etc. Roundtable very successful. What do we call this thing?
Jason Kergosien – Worked up something similar in DFW called the IT Roundtable.
JP – Should we even call this “church” IT?
Doug Hart, Dave Clark, David Russell, Sam Barrett and a few others agree that there is enough merit to stick with being specific to “church” IT audience. Our purpose should be singular, focused and, as Doug mentions, we should be good stewards of our knowledge and resources.
JP – Thinking we could think larger as well. A community.
Post-show
SB – *** Correction: Entourage uses WebDAV
JP – “I’m not anti-Apple, even though some people think I am.” (Editor’s note: Too bad the Quote of the Day was post-show. But it’s here in case you missed it.)
SB – Watching GCC’s experience with XSAN. Wants to do something similar.
Let us know if I missed something or if I misquoted you or poorly aligned any details. It's tough to stay in the game and jot notes at the same time. :)
As always, the conversation was great. Much fun.
Posted by: David Russell | January 05, 2007 at 07:09 PM
I would suggest keeping the recorded show to 1 hour. People will lose interest after an hour. But I think it's fine to keep yacking if you have other things to discuss, and then if :p anything worthwhile was discussed in the second hour, you can repeat it the following week in the recorded section of the discussion.
Posted by: Jeffrey Thompson | January 12, 2007 at 10:38 AM