Priority Projects and Activities June-2023

CITS Accountable Lead – LaVern Phillips

Description: This project sets up the necessary Azure foundation components such as networking configuration; implementing the Palo Alto firewall, including moving exiting Azure firewall rules, converting network security groups (NSGs), move School of Medicine (SOM) to the CITS Azure Express Route (excluding University of Maryland Medical System [UMMS] network range). The NSG conversion continues with the Infrastructure group. We are also converting existing firewall rules to Palo Alto through routing.

CITS Accountable Lead – Ryan Whyms

Description: This project will establish Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) framework & presence for a variety of use cases and investigate posture checking capabilities to evaluate remotely connecting devices. We are currently conducting a pilot with CITS  and Central Administration users. We are also piloting the use of thin operating system hardware to access the virtual desktop. These devices are less expensive than traditional workstations and laptop computers.

CITS Accountable Lead – LaVern Phillips

Description: This project will assess all telephone lines and move all analog lines to Voice over Internet Protocols (VoIP) that can be moved.  Further progress is being made to convert lines that can be converted, including the blue light emergency phones.

CITS Accountable Lead: Trisha Kaufman

Description: This project will move all applications running on the ColdFusion platform to the Azure cloud environment. 28% of ColdFusion applications have been migrated as of the end of the fiscal year. Further effort for this project will continue.

CITS Accountable Lead – Diane Faranetta

Description: This project implements the new travel and expense system, Concur. It will include implementing additional functionality, such as initial reporting and encumbrances. The new system rolled out to all users April 10, 2023, and the old system has been closed out. Initial reports have rolled out into Production. We are currently creating encumbrances to be sent to analytics.

CITS Accountable Lead – Ryan Holtz

Description: This project implements CRM Recruit in various schools. Overall goal is to retire web admissions by March 2024. Working with School of Medicine with a target end date of October 1, 2023. This includes 4 programs within SOM. School of Dentistry has chosen a different CRM tool and will need assistance integrating it with Banner.

CITS Accountable Lead – Michael Brown

Description: This project will install and perform the initial setup of the Data Cookbook Cloud application to capture data & reporting documentation, as well as enable the data quality assurance capabilities. A SAR report went through the workflow successfully and we have received feedback from the pilot users. This project is complete as of May 15, 2023.

CITS Accountable Lead – Brent Nickles

Description: This project moves UMB databases into cloud environments. Moves for systems such as Advance, Banner, and others will be to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Others will move to the Azure cloud.

CITS Accountable Lead – LaVern Phillips

Description: This project will determine how we can decommission the F5 server traffic load balancer and achieve load balancing with existing tools. The following have all been dealt with: MediaSite, Maximus, eUMB Financials, Raven. Shibboleth has moved to Azure and no longer uses F5. LDAP has been retired. Redirects for the following sites/domains have been moved to Terminal 4: umaryland.edu, pharmacy.umaryland.edu, schoolmentalhealth.org, and ssw.umaryland.edu.

CITS Accountable Lead – Ryan Holtz

Description: This project implements Degree Works in various schools. Completed with the School of Social Work May 31, 2023. Also working with the School of Law and the School of Pharmacy.