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The Network Operating System Migration – Novell to Microsoft

Windows 7 Resources

As more and more of the workstations on campus are moving to Windows 7, you may find yourself in need of some assistance for various tasks. Here are a list of resources to make use of: Tour Windows 7 How-to videos Explore Windows  http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/explore Get to know Windows  http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/explore/get-to-know Getting started with Windows 7  http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/help/getting-started Windows […]

Outlook migration scheduled for February 2011

As part of the Network Operating System migration project, UFV will be moving from Novell GroupWise to Microsoft Outlook email in February 2011. In preparation for that change, auto-archiving has been disabled. IT Services will begin transferring archived messages to the new system on Monday, December 13. (more…)

NOS RFP

We have assessed the responses to an RFP for the hardware requirements related to the migration and have ordered from the vendor offering the best value. We expect the hardware to arrive soon and to be able to start configuring servers on schedule.

Groupwise to Outlook

Likely the biggest impact of our Novell to Microsoft Migration will be the move away from Novell’s Groupwise for email management to Microsoft’s Outlook. The migration won’t occur until 2011 but we are planning already so the transition is as easy as possible. We are very pleased that Carl Janzen has agreed to help with […]

Launch

We have launched the migration project and are on target to meet the schedule on our project plan. The project plan has staff migrating from Novell’s GroupWise, as the office email tool, to Microsoft’s Outlook in early 2011. There will be training offered on Outlook before the migration and we will provide details as we […]