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Overview & Benefits
Purpose:
The University is working on a project to consolidate
the way directory systems are maintained along with
unifying the campus with one e-mail system: Microsoft
Exchange. University faculty and staff will use the
Microsoft Outlook client for e-mail, which will replace
Novell GroupWise. University students will use Microsoft
Outlook Web Access for e-mail, which will replace the
existing GEM system.
The University will be using the Microsoft Active
Directory 2003 and Microsoft Exchange 2003 systems. The
purpose is to serve as a cornerstone of the technology
infrastructure to create better communication within the
University community and with peer institutions in
support of the University mission of instruction,
research and service. |
The Active Directory and Exchange project began in the fall
of 2004. Project team members include network administrators and
IT staff throughout the University. The project has undergone
extensive research, review, design, configurations, testing and
evaluations.
The new University Directory and E-mail system have numerous
benefits for the entire University of South Carolina system
including, but not limited to:
- Provides a framework for single sign-on capabilities
- Access to University electronic resources across the
campus
- “User-experience” remains the same no matter where you
connect on the USC campus
- Identity management that will comply with emerging
standards
- Flexible account management to start the instant
provisioning of user accounts and e-mail addresses to new
students, employees and sponsored guests of the University
of South Carolina
- Online backups and off-site media storage for disaster
recovery
- Increased security, reliability and availability through
bundled environments that have automatic system failover,
high-performance and redundant storage options
- 24x7 monitoring of systems
- Enhanced anti-spam management providing a range of
system default options and customized spam rules
- Enhanced antivirus and anti-malware support
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