Campus Calendaring: Currently most of
the campus is on Meeting Maker (exceptions – Athletics and Student
Affairs). A lot of people are also using MS Outlook which leads to
double calendaring and those who have PDA’s run into all sorts of
trouble. MM’s license is expiring 6/30/2006 and the University will not
renew its license. Rudy Rudosevich, Steve Coan, and Eric Hodges have
been appointed to study the pros and cons of MS Outlook and the Sun 1
system used on the Student Portal calendaring system. They will make a
presentation to the Technology Council on October 27th with
their findings and the Technology Council will make a recommendation to
the Vice Presidents for their decision. The campus wants one calendaring
system for faculty and staff and the campus also wants a calendaring
system for the students. Sometimes these goals are in conflict. Eric
will call on us to provide him with assistance as he sees a need to
involve us.
Exchange Servers are being upgraded
between late August and mid-October. E-mail will be moved from a current
server to an upgraded server department by department and the move is
expected to be transparent to the users. Outlook Web Access is expected
to be much more robust and those people using the full Outlook will not
have to use VPN (it is built-in).
The Windows XP conversion is almost
complete, with only AIS to go, with some individuals scattered through
the divisions. System Support converted over 400 machines in 3-4 months
and are to be commended.
Telecommunications is upgrading the
network to a much higher speed. Users could see as much as a 7-8 time
increase in speed on campus, but perhaps only 2 times with off campus
resources.
Thumb drives (flash drives, USB
drives, etc.) should make floppies obsolete. They can hold much more
data and are easily transported. If your area is interested
in Thumb Drives, contact Eric Hodges.
System Support’s list of projects is
at
http://syssrv26 if you would like to look at the projects they are
working on for us.
The Treo 650 is gaining some support
as the next generation blackberry, but it still has problems syncing, so
System Support is withholding any opinion on this product for now.
