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STANDARD MIGRATION PROCESS:
User responds to web-based migration survey
Joe contacts department representative to schedule migration
Send e-mail message prior to migration containing instructions on how to access services after the migration.
Technicians go through a series of steps on each computer as it is migrated.
The steps include but are not limited to:

EXCEPTIONS WITH MACINTOSH
E-mail:
Web-based Java applications don't work well on a Macintosh. Communications
Express is Java-based (an industry standard). Because of this, UCS supports OSX
mail, which is setup on each Macintosh users workstation. OSX mail became a
standard for many Macintosh users months before the migration. During the migration process, the technicians point OSX mail at the new mail server.
File services:
Technicians change the entries in the GO... CONNECT TO SERVER menu.
Pop-up block exceptions are not added to Macintoshes because the default e-mail client is OSX mail.
Macintosh users will be able to access their calendar events with
Communications Express using the Firefox browser.

HOW USER RESPONSE WILL HELP US IMPROVE THE PROCESS
We will no longer act on assumptions, everyone will receive a migration notice in their old e-mail inbox.

To date, departments migrated from the aviation to the mash domain include UCS, Business Office, Public Safety, Telecommunications, VP Finance and Administration, Human Resources, Budget / Payroll, Bookstore, DEP and SEP.

Next week UCS will migrate all students enrolled for fall term but not registered for summer term. Between the end of summer term and the start of fall term, the remaining “active� students will be migrated. Also during this time period, all the lab computers will be re-ghosted and will only have access to the new domain.

My goal is to have all campus workstations migrated by the start of fall term. I am requesting your permission to migrate your workstation and data during the summer. Please go on-line and fill out the “Domain Migration� form.

What is included in the migration?
-- all your server data is moved from aviation to mash (H drive, I drive, etc.)
-- the physical data is being moved from a system that has 99.9% reliability to a system has 99.999% reliability
-- the new physical server is significantly faster than the previous server
-- the new server and storage system can be significantly expanded on demand
-- there are two domain controllers rather than one
-- the tape backup attached to the new system is significantly faster
-- all your historical e-mail will be moved
-- UCS will support both Communication Express and Outlook 2003
-- e-mail logins are secure on the new e-mail system when using Communication Express

Other Blogs related to the migration include:
Bill’s Blog
-- e-mail clients
-- Applications on the new server
-- New server room
Travis’s Blog
-- Summer migration
Joes’s Blog
-- Support of Outlook 2003
-- Migration... so what's to ya?