5 Minute Madness
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Fall 2012 - 5 Minute Madness ASU – Alan Carbutt Change from ASC to ASU official as of August 7th Continued construction, remodeling of various residence halls, academic buildings and athletics facilities Support Services o Recently hired Matt Chacon- IT Tech II o Expanding use of Extron classroom mgmt technology o Building additional TEC Classrooms in recently acquired East Campus bldg o Recently moved from Kaspersky AV to System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) o Early stages of implementing a campus-wide printer consolidation and refresh program o Moved to using System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) exclusively for imaging and management of all employee, lab and TEC PCs Networking/telecommunications o In hiring process for recently retired employee, primary responsibilities will be VOIP o Continued deployment of new AP/wireless gear to improve our student wifi areas o Working toward redundancy in our HP Core router o Still on analog CATV, investigating going to digital o One-Card trade study- investigating going away from Heartland Sys Admin o Consolidation of physical servers to VM environments, making improvements to our data center o On Saturday, moving to 200 MBps Century Link MOE connection o Within month, adding additional link to Skywerx (155MBps) for additional bandwidth and true link redundancy o Upgrades to our KVM virtual environment, improvements to HA for our critical services o Furthering the co-admin approach to systems administration for our Banner Team Banner/Applications Team o Fusion middleware upgrades o Ongoing SAP/Surds/other reporting o Student payroll to higherOne, near completion o Blackboard 9.1 implementation is ongoing o Upcoming upgrade to Banner Student 8.5.4/Banner General 8.5 . COF 8.5.4 testing . new SAP testing o Solid start to implementing Web for Employee, more to come o Interested in training/learning opportunities offered @ other institutions for OOP, Groovy/Grails General updates and initiatives o Working to better understand changes to State Classified IT classification o Partnering with State of Colorado for hosting Supervisory Certificate courses in Alamosa for our Team Leads, first is the re-vamped “Nuts and Bolts of State Supervision” to be held at ASU October 2, 3, and 4 (if anyone is interested, give them Kevin’s contact info) CCCS – Pay Fay & Keith Dahl Course Signals EDW / BRM / SRP Degree Works Reporting Project Management / Prioritization FLAC – Faculty Load and Compensation Fixed Assets Student eBill Flex Registration for Continuing Education Banner 9 Readiness Banner Upgrades: HR/Position Control/General Oracle OAS – Application Server Upgrade Portal Upgrade Investigation / Analysis / Proof of Concept for FY13-14: o Sharepoint – Collaboration for Projects o Mobile Strategies o Identity Management VOIP Consolidation o Consolidating all of the voice systems for 11 out of the 13 colleges into a single Cisco VOIP system. o Utilizing Cisco UCS Microsoft Exchange 2010 Upgrade o Upgrading the Exchange environment from 2007 to 2010. o Utilizing Cisco UCS SAN Upgrade o Upgrading Storage o Utilizing EMC Online collaboration o Utilizing Cisco WebEx Banner Hardware Upgrade o Migrating and upgrading from Itanium to Blade technologies utilizing VMWare FireEye Malware Appliance o Protecting CCCS from potential threats. Windows 8 o Migrating all users to Windows 8 ;-) CMC – Jim English Relocation of CMC’s Central Services, which included building out a new server room, moving of our VMware server environment, EMC SAN, both production and res hall Internet connectivity, Cisco video conferencing bridge, gateways, MCU controller, and content server. Everything has been relocated with the exception of our existing ATM circuits. Waiting on MOE circuit from Centurylink. Working with Centurylink to deploy MOE circuits to our remote campuses. 4 of our 11 campuses have been migrated. Centurylink will deploy a Ciena wireless MOE solution for our Spring Valley Campus. New academic building at our Steamboat Springs campus Continuing to build out our DR site at our Rifle Campus, but need to get MOE deployment from Centurylink to campus before the project can be finalized. Student Portal upgrade Identity management project LMS migration from Blackboard to Canvas Migration of internal web pages to sharepoint. CMU – Jeremy Brown CMU is preparing for its HLC visit next year. Currently looking at Campus Labs Compliance Assist—Accreditation module to prepare our self-study report and manage our electronic resource room. Integrated Clancy Systems parking management software with Banner to post parking permit fees and parking fines to student accounts Upgraded MOE link to 400 Mb/s, of which 300 Mb/s for Internet access Replaced Proofpoint Enterprise Protection for Email (SaaS) with Sophos Data Protection Suite, (Endpoint Security and Control plus Email Protection). CMU has been using Endpoint Protection and Security Control suite for three years. Transitioning to Sophos’ Email Protection virtual appliance provided significant savings. We are also trialing Sophos Mobile Control. Position Searches: o Dir. of Computing and Networking, Banner Programmer, Systems Admin, and two technicians o Assistant Vice President of Academic Affairs/ Director of Distance Ed Upgraded to ZCM (Zenworks Configuration Manager) 11 from Zenworks 7. CMU utilizes ZCM to deploy and update software application and security patches. Installed three Daktronics large-scale LED displays including an indoor video display in Brownson Arena and two outdoor marquee message boards Finishing an extensive IT infrastructure as-built documentation project Campus Expansion: o Complete Montrose Campus renovation with new server room o Bishop Campus classroom remodels o Opened a new 209 bed residence hall for Fall, another hall planned for 2013 o Forensic Investigation Research Station (a.k.a. “body farm”) The conventional servers on the Bishop and Montrose Campuses were migrated to VMware hosts Media Services built a mobile “studio-in-a-box” for live event production. This is a joint project with Mass Communications program to provide students live event experience Maxient student conduct software is being evaluated by Residence Life and IT Transitioning to CollegeNet R25 Live CMU Foundation is purchasing new scholarship management software, Academic Works Upgraded our Cisco Wireless Controller Software to NCS and upgraded 4404 controllers 5508s over the summer. We’re currently investigating Aruba Networks We’ve imported computer and printer inventories in to our new help desk software, Web Help Desk, database to streamline asset management, and the computer registration process was integrated with Web Help Desk to provide automatic network registration and decommissioning of computer systems. CMU is looking at implementing Banner’s Faculty Load and Compensation module Upgraded Banner HR module for IPEDS reporting Marketing and Admissions has rolled out a new future student microsite using Drupal CMU licensed the NSI Autostore software to allow scanning into Xtender from the newly deployed Konica/Minolta networked multifunction copiers. CSU – Scott Bailey INTO CSU, a joint venture partnership, has successfully enrolled 350 International students for the Fall 2012 semester. A very significant effort that we hope will substantially increase our out- of-state enrollment over the next few years. Survived migration to Blackboard 9, hosted by Blackboard o ~60% of sections using Bb at some level o Mining data for academic intelligence purposes (i.e. early grade feedback) Echo360 lecture capture expansion continues (per Rusty’s talk) Participating in an eText pilot sponsored by Internet2’s Net+ o Offers 80-90% discount (can download a print version for $28-34) o Trial allows up to 800 students or 30 sections, at a cost of $20K o Keeping CSU Bookstore in the loop o Courseload is the company the provides the front-end to McGraw-Hill content o National Federation for the Blind (NFB) has alleged non-compliance with ADA section 504. They are demanding “cease and desist” Gig.U – activity to accelerate the deployment of world-leading, next generation networks in the United States. Partnering with City of Fort Collins and a local telecommunications provider in response to the Gigabit Squared RFP, hoping to receive a share of $200M of venture capital funding Entered into a strategic business alliance with HP for desktop and laptop purchases – cash rebates, scholarships, internships, etc. valued at ~$800K annually Still very active in the Kuali Foundation – primarily Financial and Research Systems; recent work on placing Kuali Rice portal in front of KFS and Coeus. Planning a KFS upgrade, watching Kuali Human Resources (KPME) and Finance projects, travel management, contracts and grants billing. Working with CSU-Pueblo on KFS implementation Recently awarded a NSF Cyber Infrastructure grant - $486K to upgrade core data network (hopefully to 100 Gbps), wide area capacity, and to establish a research DMZ in support of big data and the research community. Also implementing Internet2’s DYNES Implementing Levels of Assurance (Level 2 or “silver”) for Federated (via InCommon) access to FastLane, grants.gov, research.gov. Implications on our password policy – moving to longer passwords (15-character minimum, lockout after 14 consecutive failed attempts, etc.) Anticipating a defunding of higher ed by the state by 2020. Planning for this now, for example increasing enrollment by up to 5K students while