Migration Milestones
- March: Office 2007 voluntary installation period begins. Home Use Program available.
- February: Office 2003 classes will no longer be offered. Office 2007 open labs will begin in February and continue through March.
- January: Auditorium demos of Office 2007.
- December: Early Adopter program begins.
- November: New email server and storage system installed.
March: Office 2007 Voluntary installation
On Mondays starting March 3, most computer users will see a pop-up message on their screens, asking them if they'd like to install. The Home Use Program allows you to get a copy of Office 2007 to use when you work from home. See the migration home page for details.
February: Office 2007 Open labs
The open labs have been packed! Trainers are hearing that the installation process is going smoothly for most people. Find out more.
January: Office 2007 auditorium demos
Our Office 2007 road shows - demonstrations held in auditoriums all over OHSU - were a big success. The presenters reported a fair amount of Oo-ing and Ah-ing over Office 2007's new features.
December 13: Early-adopter program
Today the early adopter program will be announced at the network contact meeting. In order to take part, early adopters will sign an agreement stating that they are a self-sufficient computer user who will be helping their colleagues with the migration in the spring.
December 3: Testing the early-adopter registration system
A group of volunteers began testing the Office 2007 early-adopter registration system, so it will be ready for the larger group we expect on December 13.
November 28: New email server and storage system
Migrating from Novell’s email system to the Microsoft Exchange environment requires some new hardware.
ITG is currently installing the server hardware, and recently completed a 10-week RFP process for the storage system. The storage hardware is the last major piece required before the Exchange environment can be configured for production. It will be on-site before the end of December.
We wanted a way to ease the storage system’s data growth rate, and have decided on a solution that includes data deduplication.
What’s data deduplication? It works like this. When an email with an attachment is sent to 100 people, only one copy of the attachment is stored on disk (instead of 100 copies). Each recipient receives a pointer to the document instead of a copy of it. The process is completely transparent to the user - each person still has full access to the attachment, and can modify or delete it as they wish - but it reduces the growth rate of the storage system by storing pointers instead of duplicate data.
