CITS Accountable Lead – Tom Hockensmith

Description: Except for School of Medicine (SOM), we have brought all users and domains to the UMB account.  SOM will be responsible to claim their domains with Zoom and to force Single Sign-On for som.umaryland.edu. CITS will assist SOM to assess the number of the remaining users/domains so they may better plan their efforts.

CITS Accountable Lead – Dr. Murray

Description: The Azure infrastructure and needed networking have been put together to create a Secure Research Environment (SRE) for researchers to use on a pilot basis. The SRE (along with the Honest Broker) controls what data can enter the environment and what data can be taken from it.

CITS Accountable Lead: Trisha Kaufman

Description: This project will move all ColdFusion applications to the Azure cloud environment. Working with the School of Social Work to prepare template changes to be moved to the Cloud. We are also working on updating and moving the Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) applications as well.

CITS Accountable Lead – Fred Smith

Description: This effort is to identify all applications that still utilize LDAP for authentication and either move them to use Single Sign-On or VPN for authentication or document an exception for continuing with LDAP. Student Systems and eUMB, HR/Finance systems were assessed. Currently analyzing UNIX and Windows systems.

CITS Accountable Lead – Brian Coats

Description: We have automated the OneCard access review/removal process so that any access that is marked for removed is automatically updated in that system (Lenel), without needing manual action from Public Safety. The code has been created and tested. Next step is to work with Public Safety on rolling this out to Production.

CITS Accountable Lead – Ryan Whyms

Description: This project will establish Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) framework & presence for a variety of use cases and investigate posture checking capabilities to evaluate remotely connecting devices. We have engaged a tool called Nerdio to help automate setting up and maintaining our AVD environments. We have a workable environment and are moving toward providing a pilot group of CITS users with AVD as their primary workstation.

CITS Accountable Lead – Brian Coats

Description: This project transitions to the vendor AI.net the responsibility for the 300 W Lex data center (room/space) and will reconfigure how the network enters this space, including re-cabling and network changes.

CITS Accountable Lead – LaVern Phillips

Description: This project will assess all telephone lines for each school and department to confirm their continued need and move all analog lines to VoIP that can moved.  We continue to make progress converting the over 800 lines that can be converted.

CITS Accountable Lead – LaVern Phillips

Description: This project will set up the necessary Azure foundation components such as networking configuration, firewall and Express Route setup, and Microsoft Azure subscriptions. We have resolved an issue with the Palo Alto firewall ad are working to migrate Azure to the Palo firewall. We have enabled the CITS Azure Express Route to be used by the School of Medicine and are working with them to set up their use of it.

CITS Accountable Lead – Michael Brown

Description: We have been assisting the School of Nursing with developing new reports in Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC)for Banne by teaching their report writers how to create their own reports in OAC. We have set up user groups in the test environment, so they can deploy the reports there in October.

CITS Accountable Lead – Michael Brown

Description: This project will install and perform the initial setup of the Data Cookbook Cloud application to capture data & reporting documentation, as well as enable the data quality assurance capabilities. We continue to configure both the data definition and report specification workflow, which will be followed by the data quality assurance functionality.

CITS Accountable Lead – Michael Brown

Description: We are assisting the Bursar’s office and the Registrar’s office with migrating legacy reports to and developing new reports in Oracle Analytics Cloud for student data. The first 12 reports Are being tested in the test environment. The Graduate School has identified their initial set of reports and will conduct a self-service reporting pilot with them in October. further report conversion requirements are being assembled.

CITS Accountable Lead – Diane Faranetta

Description: Our testing of the upgraded self service (SSB) portion of the Banner student system and its newly configured the Student Profile module and the Faculty Profile module, was interrupted by the vendor. There was a crucial security patch that needed to be implemented, which would make it necessary for us to retest the upgrade afterward. The upgrade went well as did the testing. The next step is to follow our cutover plan into Production, currently scheduled for mid-October 2022.

CITS Accountable Lead – Diane Faranetta

Description: We completed this phase September 30, 2022, with our planning partner Huron. We validated the parts of HCM we want to implement and identified the gaps where the HCM functionality does not meet our needs. We will move on to the pre-implementation phase as we prepare to implement the new system.

CITS Accountable Lead – Diane Faranetta

Description: Working with our planning partner Huron, we will prepare to implement the new system in the pre-implementation phase.

CITS Accountable Lead – Diane Faranetta

Description: We have completed validating our configurations and have scheduled system integration testing for October 2022.

CITS Accountable Lead – Diane Faranetta

Description: This replaces the cloud service architecture with an Oracle SOA marketplace image so we better use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. We cut over to Production at the end of August 2022. This project is now complete.

CITS Accountable Lead – Diane Faranetta

Description: We will switch to using analytics to report on financials so we can decommission eUMB Financials and Raven. All data identified for reporting for central office is available through Analytics. The reports have been validated. Financials and Raven access has been removed for all campus users as of September 1, 2022.

CITS Accountable Lead – LaVern Phillips

Description: This project will determine how we can decommission the F5 load balancer and achieve load balancing with tools we already have. We have identified categories of applications/servers and timeframes for them to move off of F5. The servers in the “Old/To Be Removed” category have been dealt with. We are moving ahead according to plan.

CITS Accountable Lead – Diane Faranetta

Description: We will help deploy a cloud-based portal for veterinarian resources for the School of Medicine. Development and testing integration in is progress.

CITS Accountable Lead – Trisha Kaufman

Description: The goal is to upgrade T4 to a Linux environment. There are several technical tasks to complete before this upgrade. We are currently in the planning stage for the full effort.

CITS Accountable Lead – LaVern Phillips

Description: We have now moved all VPN groups to the Palo Alto VPN. The Cisco VPN will be decommissioned by the end of September 2022. This project has been completed.

CITS Accountable Lead – Ryan Whyms

Description: This project involves networking set up, administration/billing operations, permissions and providing the school IT groups the ability to stand up servers. Azure has been established and we are now ready for a school IT group requests to begin using Azure. This project completed August 5, 2022.

CITS Accountable Lead – Tom Hockensmith

Description: Transitioning the administration of the technical aspects of the S.A.F.E. Center initiative from College Park to UMB. All support and configurations are on UMB support currently, including the computer hardware and network, data migration, and new conference room A/V solution. The S.A.F.E. Center will decide how many phone lines are needed on their own. This project is complete as of June 7, 2022.

CITS Accountable Lead – Doug Bowser

Description: This project replaced the online philanthropy giving system Give Corp with the new system, GiveCampus. All conversions are now complete. School of Medicine (SOM) has confirmed all links on their website. The project is complete as of September 27, 2022.

CITS Accountable Lead – LaVern Phillips

Description: Upgrade with wired and wireless networks in the residence halls.  Installation of equipment at Pascault Row was complete. We replaced equipment in Fayette Housing with new wired connections. This project is complete as of August 26, 2022.