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March/April Update for the IT Change Program

March/April 2009

Welcome to the Update series for the IT Change Program.

We will keep you updated on the IT Change Program progress and upcoming key events. An overview of the program goals and milestones can be found on the One UNSW website.

IT Change Program – What is happening in 2009?

By the end of 2009:

Shared Utility IT Services will be fully rolled out to all divisional units, Faculty of Medicine, College of Fine Arts, Faculty of Law
New email service will be rolled out to all UNSW Staff and PhD research students
zMail will go live for all non-research students and alumni
All Windows server applications will be migrated to shared infrastructure and the physical number of servers will be reduced by a further 209
A new Managed Print Service will be in available and end of life printers will be replaced
The Off-site Data centre will be operating (with the official opening in early 2010)

By the end of April:

Shared Utility IT Services had been implemented in units within Finance and Operations and DVC Academic.
The Desktop Service for Windows had been implement in student labs in Law and Medicine
Application Migration continued and servers been decommissioned in 3 faculties and across divisional units
Staff Email is “live” in 3 faculties, Central IT and across a number of divisional units
The new email service for undergraduate and postgraduate coursework students (zMail) became availavle to students from April (see “zMail goes live” below)
3 candidates had been shortlisted for the Managed Print service.
Architecture completed for the Off-Site Data Centre

zMail goes live!

The rollout out of zMail commenced in mid April to all UNSW undergraduate and postgraduate coursework students. By the end of April, over 4000 students had switched to the new student email service, which offers a feature-rich web interface, an email storage capacity of 10GB and allows for 10MB file transfers.
Managed by UNSW and hosted by Microsoft, zMail will eventually replace Unimail.

Planning for the rollout of zMail to Alumni is expected to commence in July.

For more information on zMail visit the zMail website.

Other IT News – IT Enterprise Systems Update

IT Enterprise Systems has been busy working with a number stakeholders across UNSW. Some major advances over the past few months include

The UNSW Housing website was implemented in late February 2009. This is a central website bringing the various independent UNSW accommodation entities including private rental, into a central service website thus enhancing this service to students.
With the Music Performance unit, set up of the Australian Ensemble's special website for the Victorian Bushfire Appeal concert
Implementation of the Bullseye video site in MyUNSW. Bullseye is part of a suite of Organisation and Staff Development Services products to support the rollout of the UNSW Performance Development scheme for Professional and Technical staff. Having the videos available to all staff has given them a flexible learning alternative.
Major enhancements to Budgeting, Forecasting and Management Reporting functions in NSS HR module were delivered in April 2009. These significantly enhance the support offered to HR planning. This included the "Finance Delegation" automation functionality now available through the MyUNSW portal.

The next monthly update will be available in early July. Questions and feedback can be sent to IT Transition Director, Denise Black ext. 53408 or email ictprogram@unsw.edu.au.

For further news, updates and handy IT tips, keep an eye out for 'Click' a monthly newsletter published by the UNSW IT Customer Service Team.