Have you outsourced faculty email to MS-Live or Gmail?

Cyndi, I strongly suggest you move the alumni to the cloud. Our experience is it's easy, free and very poorly used. We create MS Live accounts for all graduates in April. We then give our graduates a year to get off our student account and migrate to the alumni account. That way they have a Mitchell account for job hunting and life if wanted.

Good luck with your discussions

Jim Villars | Vice President, Information Technology Services
651-290-6475 | Fax: 651-290-6461 | Cell 651-775-2798
jim.villars@wmitchell.edu
875 Summit Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105
William Mitchell College of Law
For a degree in PRACTICAL WISDOM

From: teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu [mailto:teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Johnson, Cyndi
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 2:38 PM
To: Teknoids
Subject: RE: [teknoids] Have you outsourced faculty email to MS-Live or Gmail?

Wow...I'm very surprised that so many of you have implemented a cloud solution.

UNM has an Enterprise email project that's been going on for a couple of years now. First group's charge..."does it make sense to consolidate the 40+ UNM messaging systems into one?". Answer: yup (duh...only took a year and a million meetings/focus groups to figure that one out).

Second group's charge is to determine the best solution. While there's talk of putting student accounts in the cloud, there are those (especially the hospital) who have grave concerns about faculty/staff accounts. My guess is that UNM will adopt a solution that includes both...students in the cloud, faculty/staff on Exchange.

Since I'll probably be retired before group 2 gets consensus, we decided to keep our email in-house on Exchange. I did look into a hosted Exchange solution for our alumni, but just haven't moved forward with that decision yet.

Cyndi

Cyndi Dean Johnson
Assistant Dean for Information Technology
UNM School of Law
(505) 277-0695

From: teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu [mailto:teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Villars, Jim
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 11:08 AM
To: Teknoids
Subject: RE: [teknoids] Have you outsourced faculty email to MS-Live or Gmail?

William Mitchell went students, staff and faculty to MS live@ EDU. For the most part we have been VERY happy. We just experienced our first issue and worked well with MS to get it resolved. We came from a local implementation of Exchange and Outlooks so MS was the simplest transition for all. We did the committee selection process and almost everyone felt MS was a better tool for WM over Google.
Personally I have enjoyed the use of the web Word and the "Sky Drive" storage. They work great.

If you have specific question contact me directly.

Jim Villars | Vice President, Information Technology Services
651-290-6475 | Fax: 651-290-6461 | Cell 651-775-2798
jim.villars@wmitchell.edu
875 Summit Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105
William Mitchell College of Law
For a degree in PRACTICAL WISDOM

From: teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu [mailto:teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Kasra hafezi
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 8:55 AM
To: Teknoids
Subject: [teknoids] Have you outsourced faculty email to MS-Live or Gmail?

If so please share your experience with a fellow noid!

Thank you

Kasra

St. John's School of Law

New York