| Service Name | Service Description | Project Description | Purpose | | CAS | Central Authentication Service | Version upgrade. |
Needed upgrade to the CAS servers that provide single sign-on protocol for the many of DePaul's sites (including PeopleSoft, D2L and many others.) Also, look into potential CAS replacement.
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| Directory Services (AD) | Provides login functionality and management for DePaul Employees and Students. |
CAS to ADFS Migration
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Streamline web single sign-on (SSO) processes and consolidate more applications onto a single platform to improve user experience and security
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| Distribution/Core layer | Complete, evaluate, and implement IPv6 addressing plan for campus | Further enable IPv6 addressing and usage on DePaul's network | In order to prepare for a top-down IPv6 network, planning, testing, and implementation of IPv6 networks will tackled |
| DNS | DNS reservations and allocations (add, remove, edit) | Redesign campus DNS architecture |
The current architecture that employs anycast, multiple hosts and no dynamic dns system for clients should be re-evaluated.
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| Employee Messaging Services | Provide IM and video conference capability to the University community |
Skype For Business
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Provide IM, audio/video conferencing, and screen sharing capability on desktops, laptops, phones, and tablets to the University community
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| Employee Windows Desktop Management | Provides a customized DePaul user experience for DePaul Employees with Windows PCs |
Windows 10 Self-Service Upgrade
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Enable University users to migrate from Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10
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| ID Card System | Blackboard Transaction System Current version 3.11.2.2
Includes IDCard app, reporting, card swipes, registers, activity readers… | Look at a way to automate monitoring of readers across campuses. (grab viewlog, status) | Each night, card readers across all DePaul campuses are updated with databases that contain list of cardholders that should have access to the door. Checking the status of the database of each reader is a manual process that would be easier with a robust script. |
| ID Card System | Blackboard Transaction System Current version 3.11.2.2
Includes IDCard app, reporting, card swipes, registers, activity readers… | Review with DEV: Blackboard Feed issues: track when adds/removes are done, and end of term removals are done | As part of the processes for troubleshooting automated door access based upon class enrollment, IDAdmin needs the ability to see more data on when the feed adds and drops students. |
| ImageNow | Description: Perceptive Software Image storing and management product. | Review with DEV: Retention Policy Manager - Determine how to get data on last term attended into IN/RPM (IS Dev Project) |
Work with Development team to get "last term attended" date into Image Now. This date is needed by RPM rules to determine when items should be removed
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| Linux Server OS | Enterprise level Unix-based OS | Retire RHEL 5 infrastructure/upgrade to RHEL 7 |
With end of RHEL 5 support in March 2017 coming, IS will work to upgrade any existing outdated hosts.
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| Mobius | Financial report storage and management. | Needs an upgrade in late 2017 after year-end closing | Mobius is the archiving tool uses for reports from PeopleSoft, typically used by Finance and Budget Managers. System requires a much needed upgrade. |
| Network Administration | Handles access requests/removals for PeopleSoft, Exchange, File/Print, Student mail, and other systems | Scripts for handing FinSecurity/Budget Manager requests | Every day, multiple requests come into NetAdmin for updates to Finance Security for Budget Managers. Scripts to review/analyze al requests at a batch level would make process much more efficient. |
| Network File Storage Services | Provides User and Departmental file storage space for DePaul Employees |
Box
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Offer a web-based file sharing and collaboration platform to easily share files within and outside of the University community
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| Network File Storage Services | Provides User and Departmental file storage space for DePaul Employees |
W: Drive Folder Security Standardization
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Review and update folder security across W: drive to ensure compliance with IS standards
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| Network Monitoring | Monitoring of network devices in addition to some of security, systems, and public safety's devices. | Upgrade network device monitoring solutions, including Nagios, Netstat, NetDisco, Syslog, etc. | This project will look to upgrade outdated software and hardware that runs core network support services. |
| Oracle Databases |
Oracle Databases on Linux
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Look into setting up Oracle Data Guard (mirroring) for other Oracle databases
| During the refresh of the DePaul data centers, DBA's and Storage team want to take advantage of technologies offered by Oracle to improve how databases are protected and maintained. |
| Oracle Databases |
Oracle Databases on Linux
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Include Oracle 12 upgrades in appliction upgrade projects over the next year
| During the refresh of the DePaul data centers, DBA's and Storage team want to take advantage of technologies offered by Oracle to improve how databases are protected and maintained. |
| Peoplesoft CS | PeopleSoft Campus Solutions 9.0. Includes class registration, grades, transcripts, student financials, student accounts, financial aid….
| Evaluate whether underpinning OS should be Windows or Linux moving forward | Industry standard for PeopleSoft systems is to run application servers on Linux operation system. We have been running on Windows for over a decade and feel that with a changeover we'll see improved performance during peak usage times. |
| Sharepoint 2010 | SharePoint Server 2010 hosting public facing websites and intranet team sites | Front-End SP with NGINX (In Progress) | Nginx server sits in between a users and SharePoint and saves cache of all the content used by SharePoint. Performance improves because the application servers they don’t generating pages from scratch for each request. |
| Structured Cabling | Allocate cabling resources to devices such as building automation, security cameras, etc; Coordinate new construction or remodeling with contractors and FO; Data cable pull requests; | CAT3 wiring replacement, Byrne, SAC 4,5, 1/2 SAC 4, Vincentian residence, Rosati House | In an effort to maintain consistency of wired cabling infrastructure a proposal will be crafted for the spaces that are not currently on CAT 5 cabling or better. |
| Student Academic Computing | Provides student academic computing resources |
Academic Imaging Process Update
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Reduce internal resource usage and improve reliability of lab and classroom imaging by simplifying deployment processes
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| Student Lab Academic Computing | Provides student academic computing resources |
Adobe Creative Cloud Federation
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Reduce the number of different sets of credentials that DePaul users must remember and enable more services to use Campus Connect credentials
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| Student Lab Academic Computing | Provides student academic computing resources |
Kivuto Software Store Federation
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Reduce the number of different sets of credentials that DePaul users must remember and enable more services to use Campus Connect credentials
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| Student Lab Academic Computing | Provides student academic computing resources |
SCCM Upgrade and Migration
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Consolidate multiple System Center Configuration Manager environments onto the latest version of the product to simplify management and increase efficiency
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| Student Lab Academic Computing | Provides student academic computing resources |
Windows Server 2008 R2 License Server Migration
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Maintain reliability and security of network software licensing systems by keeping up to date with Microsoft Windows Server release lifecycle
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| Student Lab Academic Computing | Provides off campus access to academic software resources to DePaul students |
Usage of Virtual Lab software in physical labs
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Streamline specialized academic software distribution, making it more widely available in on-campus labs as well as off-campus via the Virtual Lab
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| Student Lab Academic Computing | Provides off campus access to academic software resources to DePaul students |
Virtual Lab metrics
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Re-evaluate Virtual Lab software platform to ensure that it is performing as designed and serving the needs of University users
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| Studio Abroad | Terra Dotta Studio Abroad v 14.1.2 |
Upgrade Studio Abroad and determine if we can take advantage of going vendor hosted with the software
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Evaluate whether this should be hosted by the vendor. Why do we have this here. This area upgrades every year, hosted solution the upgrade would be done for them. Issue: is it okay to have this kind of student data outside of depaul (ssn?)
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| Telephony Services | Enables voice communications over telephones. | Investigate and formalize remote client phone options for DePaul | Research, determine, and publish option(s) campus entities have for obtaining remote phone service (at home, off campus, etc.) |
| Telephony Services | Provides the university with 8XX phone service | Research new tollfree phone service for University |
In an effort to save cost and consolidate vendors IS will research alternative options for 8XX phone service.
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