{"318641":{"#nid":"318641","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Email, Calendars, and Contacts on the Move","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBeginning this fall, the Georgia Tech community will be able to migrate its Zimbra email, calendar, and contacts services to a new Outlook-based solution as part of the Microsoft Office 365 implementation. This user-friendly service will deliver better integration with Microsoft Office products, provide larger email storage capacity, and enable secure sharing capabilities.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis service will be delivered through a secure hybrid solution consisting of the Microsoft Office 365 cloud-based solution and a locally hosted Microsoft Exchange server. Tech\u2019s current Zimbra service will continue to be available to departments as well but will no longer receive service upgrades.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe plan to provide a more robust and collaborative email service was approved by the Strategic Technology Investment Committee (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.epmo.gatech.edu\/stic\u0022\u003Ewww.epmo.gatech.edu\/stic\u003C\/a\u003E), which consists of faculty and administrators from across campus. The committee\u2019s goal is to champion technology that supports one of Georgia Tech\u2019s strategic goals: the relentless pursuit of institutional effectiveness.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs stated by Jim O\u2019Connor, Georgia Tech\u2019s chief information officer and vice president of Information Technology, \u201cWe have simply outgrown the current Zimbra offering. This new service will not only support the continuously evolving needs of our students, faculty, and staff, but it truly aligns a critical component of how we communicate to the Institute\u2019s 25-year Strategic Plan and the IT Master Plan.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, a new service-level email data protection policy has been developed to govern the responsible use of email, calendar, and contacts within the new solution. This policy, which is currently open for campuswide comment, will ensure that all Georgia Tech data is protected throughout the transition and will guide usage going forward.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERepresentatives from the implementation project team, led by the Office of Information Technology (OIT), are meeting with interested campus departments to identify a transition window and strategy to best address departmental needs. These representatives will also assist departments that currently run their own email servers in transitioning to the new service.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVisit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.emailtransition.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.emailtransition.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E for more information about the new Outlook service.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Beginning this fall, the Georgia Tech community will be able to migrate its Zimbra email, calendar, and contacts services to a new Outlook-based solution as part of the Microsoft Office 365 implementation."}],"uid":"27164","created_gmt":"2014-08-25 09:12:49","changed_gmt":"2022-05-26 17:09:36","author":"Rachael Pocklington","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-08-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-08-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.emailtransition.gatech.edu\/","title":"Email, Calendar, and Contacts"}],"groups":[{"id":"64319","name":"Administration and Finance"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERachel Moorehead - Systems Support Engineer Lead - Office of Information Technology\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rachel.moorehead@oit.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}