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Systems Staff Projects, Tasks and Initiatives - Summer 2007

Posted on August 6, 2007 4:16 PM

What are the Systems staff busily working on in the basement of Hubbard? Most people know that Systems supports email and backs up our files. Others have heard the buzz about Bowdoin's HP Blades, VMWare and disaster recovery:

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/080307-bowdoin-lmu.html

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/080307-university-disaster-recovery-project.html

http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/08/04/200232.shtml

The following is a list of projects, tasks and initiatives that the Systems staff members are working on and/or talking about during Summer 2007.

Set up new CS Gold server for this week's upgrade (Tim)

New Blade for CMS (Tim, Done 8/3)
Adam is benchmark testing.

VI3 (Tim, 9/1)

Mail Lists/Mail Man Migration from Sun to Linux (Chris, 8/17)

Sunmail Retirement (Mike)

MIIS Project/Move mail list from LDAP to AD (Exchange- Mike/Owen)

Oracle Rebuild/Bb staging server (Chris, Done 7/30)
David Francis has it now.

FTP Service for 1-800 We Answer (Chris) Back end done; communicating with We Answer. Chris is ensuring they can receive data, then he will "flip the switch".

IPTel Unity Messaging Server (Mike)

Back-Ups (Tim)

Web Infrastructure Takeover (Chris)

HR Account Termination Process (Mike)
Mike is collaborating with Juli Haugen on this.

Disks & Dependencies Analysis (Tim)

RE Upgrade August & October (Steve)

FE Upgrade September (Steve)

Security Implementation (Steve)

All_Employee bounces (Mike)

Replacement SQL cluster (Mike)

Mimosa Mail Archiving (Mike)

GMT Upgrade (Chris)

Tools for Help Desk (Mike)

Academic Sandbox (Chris)

Communication with Work Orders (Rebecca)



Rebecca F. Sandlin | Deputy CIO
Bowdoin College
9600 College Station
Brunswick, ME 04011
207.725.3388 tel
207.798.7033 fax

http://www.bowdoin.edu

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