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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. As of the Spring 2010 semester, all students, with the exception of USC Aiken and Upstate campuses, will use Outlook Live@edu.
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 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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