- Information Technology - Lewis & Clark

Migration of email accounts, class lists and listservs

January 3rd, 2012 - May 7th, 2012

The current plan is to have an extended opt-in period throughout the Spring Semester, allowing the Lewis & Clark community to transfer their mail at the most convenient time for them.  All accounts not already migrated will be transferred automatically on May 7^th, 2012. New employee or student accounts will be created within Google with no migration necessary starting in January of 2012.

Desktop email clients, such as Thunderbird, will have to have their account settings changed, either by the end user or by appointment with an IT staff member. Mail folders will be transferred in one of three ways, at the end user’s discretion: they can drag and drop the folders from the old account in Thunderbird to the new account, set an appointment with an IT staff member to assist them with the transfer, or IT can automatically migrate their mail and folders for them, with the caveat that there will be no human interaction to verify that all files and folders are transferred, and that it will take up to one business day from the time of request to complete the transfer.  New emails will be immediately routed to the Google account once the end user has opted to migrate.

Listservs will be replaced with Google Groups, rendering the current Majordomo service obsolete.  Automatically generated class lists will now be generated in Google, and Wayne Ohmer will manually migrate the Majordomo generated lists.

  * Accounts migrated as of 5/6:   

Spring IT newsletter articles

Task	Progress
Complete 1/13
Migrate listservs	Complete 12/2
News item for IT website, social media outlets and The Source	Complete 1/9
Email blast announcing opt-in beginning	Complete 1/9
Set up monitoring tools	Complete 1/3
Information table	Complete 1/17
Events calendar/digital signage	Complete 2/10
Opt-in period	Complete 5/7*
Signature files	Complete 2/10
PioLog article	Complete 2/3
Spring training	Complete 4/24
Google Mornings	Complete 5/2
PiLog advertisements	Removed
Staff Development Days	Complete 3/8
Email blast about end of opt-in period	Complete 5/6
News item for IT website, social media outlets and The Source	Complete 3/27
Non-migrated users converted to LCapps	Complete 5/8
Complete provisioning, change DNS over to Google	Complete 5/31

 

¹ Information table

Information tables will be set up on all three campuses for the migration, at the beginning of the semester for each campus.  A Consultant and/or Google Ambassador will be present to answer questions about the migration and to offer immediate assistance for issues that arise.

 ² Spring training

During the regularly scheduled Spring Semester training, the Client Services staff will provide some in-depth classes regarding the App suite, meant to supplement the more task-oriented Google Mornings.  These classes will also be offered during the Summer Training, to provide opportunities for late adopters.

 ³ Google Mornings

The training committee will offer a series of training opportunities for the L&C community about the Apps suite, focusing primarily on specific aspects or tasks.  These sessions will last approximately 45 minutes and will be offered in person (with some breakfast pastries provided) or via a webinar for the convenience of student/staff/faculty schedules.

 ⁴ Staff Development Days

This annual event will offer multiple workshops in the Google Apps suite.  These workshops will be re-purposed for faculty for the Faculty Technology Institute in mid-May.