Workstation and Application Environment
for University Hospitals & Clinics

About the Workstation & Application Committee (WAC)

The Workstation and Applications Committee will act as a clearinghouse and approval body for all changes that will impact the desktop environment at the University Hospitals & Clinics.

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• Determine standard hardware to be used.
• Determine standard operating system.
• Determine methods for authentication.
• Review and approve or deny any software packages to be used on the workstation; refer to the Computer Workstation policy for the Review Process
• Determine how software will be delivered to the workstation.
• Develop and implement a quality assurance process for requesting, testing, approving, documenting, and implementing changes to the workstation, including:
  • patches
  • applications
  • operating systems
  • software packages
• Determine process for requesting changes to the workstation environment, including response time and appropriate service level agreement.
• Determine the appropriate methods to implement:
  • asset (hardware) inventory
  • software inventory
  • patch management
  • antivirus/mal-ware management
  • printer management
  • license management

A Directory Services Steering Committee has been formed to address a core component of the desktop and application services, a robust directory service. The two major Directory Services at the University Hospitals & Clinics are Novell's Directory Services (NDS) and Microsoft's Active Directory.

Changes to the existing NDS or AD environments must be approved by the Directory Services Steering Committee.