Re: Discontinuing student email service

[Jesse Thompson <jesse.thompson () DOIT WISC EDU>]

Why not just put students onto your fac/staff email service?

Jesse

On 1/26/2010 1:33 PM, Moore, Frank wrote:
> When we got rid of our student e-mail system which was at end of life and support we got rid of huge recurring 
> maintenance costs as well as the expense of purchasing new hardware so we were pleased with the decision.
>
> frank
>
> F. X. Moore III, Ph.D.
> Vice President for Technology, CIO and Chief Privacy Officer
> Longwood University
> 201 High Street
> Farmville, VA 23909
>
> (434) 395-2034 [voice]
> (434) 395-2035 [fax]
>
> http://www.longwood.edu
>
> Do not ever e-mail your password to anyone.
> IITS will never ask for your password
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Michael 
> J. Wheeler
> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 2:31 PM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Discontinuing student email service
>
> Jesse,
>
> I wrote the provisioning code, which I wrote in Java, but 99% of it was
> already there in the Google code samples.
>
> As for maintaining it, we've actually handed off to our helpdesk manager.
> It no longer takes root access to mess with accounts, so there is actually
> a net reduction in the work for my Unix administrator.

--
  Jesse Thompson
  Division of Information Technology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Email/IM: jesse.thompson () doit wisc edu

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