As part of the IT Initiative and overall vision for IT Shared Services, several operational services will be unified within the existing University services. This will allow the local Academic Leads to focus on IT vision, strategy and best practices in partnership with the Dean and their faculty. The following Cox services are designated for unification: networking and security appliances, wireless, VPN, and Active Directory.
Network maintenance has been underway for several weeks upgrading the various network switches and Wireless Access Points throughout the buildings. The team has also reviewed many of the servers hosted in Cox to determine the migration strategy. Several services were decommissioned as they were no longer in use. We have also completed the testing phase of migrating the Cox workstations to the SMU domain.
We are now ready to begin the migration of the Cox computers to the SMU domain. This will allow Cox faculty and staff to login to their workstations using the SMU ID and password thus eliminating the extra set of credentials. Each individual will be notified of the date of their scheduled migration. Cox faculty and staff should NOT attempt to login with their ID prior to the migration date.
Additional instructions will be provided with the migration schedule. For more details on the Cox infrastructure project, visit http://www.smu.edu/OIT/Projects/CoxInfrastructure.
