Date: Thursday, September 4th, 2008
To: Members of the MIT Community
From: Don Montabana and Theresa Regan
Subject: Evolving Integrated Services: Email and Calendaring Status Update
Below is a status update of the Email and Calendaring initiative underway in
Information Services and Technology (IS&T) to develop a roadmap for the
integration of services, including: a more tightly integrated email and
calendaring experience, a contemporary Webmail solution, and a better
integration for emerging technologies including mobile devices.
In the last community update in March 2008, the project had just completed a
review with the IT Strategic Planning and Resources Coordinating Council
(IT-SPARCC) with the recommendation to investigate integrating Microsoft
Exchange within MIT's central email service. Throughout the Spring, working
closely with members of the community and the Email and Calendaring Advisory
Group, IS&T began an assessment of Microsoft Exchange.
IS&T's immediate next steps include:
-- offer a limited number of departments (Sloan, MIT Press and OSP),
specified IT colleagues needed for testing and members of the
Email/Calendaring Advisory Board, MS Exchange to run their email and
calendar service. The departments listed above have agreed to provide their
own IT support during this continued assessment.
-- work closely with the community and the Email and Calendaring
Advisory group to charter and staff additional evaluations and experiments,
including other email and calendaring services, hosting and outsourcing.
IS&T will be providing further updates of the Exchange assessment and these
experiments as they commence later this fall.
If you have any questions about the Email and Calendaring project, Exchange
or our outsourcing experiments, please contact us at
<ist-intsvcs-feedback@mit.edu> .
In closing, we once again want to express our sincere thanks to the Email
and Calendaring Advisory group and DLC/IT colleagues who have helped us
develop this strategy and investigate the use of Exchange at MIT.
On behalf of IS&T,
Don Montabana, Director of Client Support Services (CSS)
Theresa Regan, Director of Operations and Infrastructure Services (OIS)