Team # 861 -- University Messaging System Working Group
Finance and Business

June 2008

Objective

To improve collaboration between all Finance & Business units. The UMS Working Group is a subset of the Unversity Messaging System Committee that was charged by Al Horvath. The decision was made, for the first phase of the project, to consolidate five separate Microsoft Exchange environments within individual units of F&B into one central F&B Microsoft Exchange environment. This would allow for the sharing of calendars, mailboxes, address books, and resources across F&B. The second phase of the project is to try and integrate the central University Messaging System with the Office of Physical Plant's Novell GroupWise system.

It should be noted that UMS will not only provide for greater collaboration within F&B but will result in substantial cost savings for individual F&B units and for F&F as a whole. Another major benefit will be the availability of a F&B wide BlackBerry Enterprise service.

The UMS Working Group is made up of members from all IT departments with F&B and were charged with implementing both phases of the project. This is also the first time that all F&B IT departments have come together to work on a project with a common goal.

Team Membership

  • Giles DeStreel, Co-Chair
  • John Matty, Co-Chair
  • Jason Browne, Member
  • Todd Cardamone, Member
  • Fred DiMuccio, Member
  • Beth Jones, Member
  • Joe Laskowski, Member
  • Steve Neeper, Member
  • Cindy Newman, Member
  • Sandy Stauffer, Member
  • Tom Weber, Member

Results Achieved to Date

  • ExpectedResults: The UMS Working Group, as I mentioned earlier, is charged with implementing the new central University Messaging System which resides in Old Main with a remote disaster recovery site located in the Housing and Foods Building. Working through many challanges with this cutting edge technology the Working Group currently has UMS operating in production mode in both the primary and remote sites. They will be migrating the first F&B unit, The University Budget Office, over to UMS starting today. They expect to have all 1500 or so F&B employees, in the first phase, migrated over to UMS by the beginning of summer.

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