ILTS Announcements & News

The call for equipment requests will be made in late-January or early February at the latest - please begin to consider your departmental needs and contact your WWDCS contact for help if needed.

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Last information we had from ITS, the University-wide conversion to Outlook will begin sometime in February with a full schedule announced in March. Look to this site for more information as it becomes available. New staff are being given Outlook as their email client. If you have any questions expert users please contact your WWDCS contact.

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We will be replacing approximately 65 workstations this spring. Workstations that are currently running Windows 2000 will be given the highest priority. WWDCS staff will let expert users know which workstations will be upgraded in their area.

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Here are our preliminary plans for the roll-out of Outlook -

-Staff receiving replacement workstations this spring will be converted to Outlook for e-mail during the replacement process.

-We will leave old email in Eudora and begin fresh in Outlook. This will mean staff will need to look in Eudora for old messages. Access to new email from Eudora will be discontinued (so you won't be able to look at new email in Eudora).

-Staff will receive a one-on-one training session on the basics of Outlook as their workstation is converted.

-We will offer two-hour 'Outlook Drop-In' sessions for staff weekly. There will be one two-hour session each week where staff can come and ask their Outlook questions with a WWDCS staff member. Dates and times for these sessions will be announced by the end of the week.

-We will conduct hands-on training sessions for Expert Users who did not receive Outlook training in the initial sessions last fall. Expert Users who currently do not have Outlook will be converted to it as staff in their units are converted - this training will be scheduled over the next few weeks.

-We are preparing a 'Eudora-to-Outlook' crosswalk document that will describe how to do comparable tasks in Outlook. This will be available on the WWDCS site this week as will links to additional documentation from Microsoft including how-to videos. Look for a new 'Outlook' section on the WWDCS site.

These plans are in addition to the general information sessions planned by ITS starting in February. More information on those sessions as they become available. We will also have more information on the mass conversion of all staff to Outlook as soon as we have more information on ITS's plans for account creation.

Please note - the conversion to Meeting Maker will happen at the end of this process - sometime late spring / early summer. All staff need to be converted to Outlook/Exchange before the Meeting Maker conversion happens (otherwise you won't be able to schedule meetings).

Any questions / concerns - please ask.

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In addition to the usual means of support - WWDCS staff will be holding drop-in sessions for staff who have questions about using Outlook. One staff member will be available from 9-11 each Friday morning at their desk in SML. (Note: sessions will be coordinated for folks in SSL/GovDocs and the Science Libraries that are closer to their locations.)

If staff have a question about using Outlook - please feel free to stop in to SML 510 or SML 512.

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The call for equipment requests is going out today - January 31. Please consult with WWDCS staff for current pricing, equipment information, etc. Requests are due by February 22.

Drop-in sessions are 9am-11am. The dates noted below - all sessions in SML 510 or 512 unless otherwise noted.

Feb 1 -- Randi McCray
Feb 8 -- George Ouellette
Feb 15 -- Kerry Alles
Feb 22 -- Ernie Marinko
Feb 29 -- Meng Tang @ Kline
Feb 29 -- George Ouellette
March 7 -- Randi McCray
March 12 -- Meng Tang @ SSL
March 14 -- Ernie Marinko
March 21 -- Kerry Alles
March 28 -- Mike Friscia
*** New Sessions ***
May 9 - Mike Friscia
May 16 - Randi McCray
May 23 - George Ouellette
May 30 - Ernie Marinko
June 6 - Ernie Marinko
June 13 - Mike Friscia
June 20 - Meng Tang