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CITC Projects Planned for 2008 or 2009
By Maurice
Leatherbury, Ph.D.
Associate Vice President for Computing and Chief Technology Officer
The Computing and Information Technology
Center has, at any one time, at least a hundred projects of various
sizes on which it is working. Those projects may be as small as
changing the layout of a screen in EIS and as large as implementing
an imaging system that will integrate with EIS. Here’s a list of
some major projects that the CITC intends to work on over the next
year-and-a-half or longer:
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Imaging – UNT purchased the ImageNow software suite late last
calendar year and is actively working to acquire hardware, install
the software, configure the software to our requirements, and
convert our old imaging system’s files to ImageNow. By the end of
August, the departments that were on the old system (Purchasing and
Payment Services, Registrar, etc.) are planned to have been migrated
to ImageNow. A major new feature of ImageNow will be the integration
of images into EIS, so you’ll be able to see a copy of an invoice,
for example, right within a screen showing a purchase order, if you
have the right permissions to do so.
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Migration from Novell GroupWise to Microsoft
Outlook/Exchange. I’ve written several times about this project,
which is consuming almost all of the time of the CITC’s messaging
group right now. The migration is proceeding well, with about ½ of
our e-mail users (c. 2,500) converted now. The migration should be
completed by the middle of this June.
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Migration from Novell to Windows file
and print services. This migration will result in a different login
for UNT computer users but not much else will be evident to our
users. It will start within the next couple of months for some users
and we estimate will take from four to 15 months to complete, but we
don’t have a firm schedule for the migration at this time.
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Migration of EIS’ financial module to version 9.0. Like the
migration of the learning solutions module in EIS late last year to
version 8.9, this migration will involve many of the CITC staff as
well as many more functional users in the various financial areas on
both the Denton and Health Sciences Center campuses. Work on the
migration is already under way and will accelerate as we get closer
to the point at which we’ll start using the new version. At this
time, the actual cutover of the EIS software is scheduled to occur
in March 2009.
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Upgrade to UNT’s data communications infrastructure. Hidden
in closets across campus are over 800 switches and routers that run
UNT’s data communications services. Those hardware components are
reaching end of life, having served us for five or more years, and
we have a rolling upgrade plan to replace those switches and routers
over the next five years (at which time we’ll start over!) The
upgrade project has begun and will result in continued stability of
our data communications infrastructure as well as some increase in
reliability and speed.
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Upgrade of classroom technology. Classroom Support Services
is well on the way to completing a major project to upgrade each
“110” classroom’s technology to better data projectors, computers,
etc. They’ve finished over 150 of the 209 classrooms in UNT’s
inventory and will complete the upgrade by this summer.
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