Migrating to SailPoint: The University of Victoria (UVic) has purchased the SailPoint IdentityIQ product. The new system will replace their SUN Identity Manager system and a custom-built password management system. The system was purchased through a BCNET license agreement managed by Long View Systems. Details of the migration strategy are explained in the attached diagram (courtesy of Corey Scholefield): SUN Identity Manager migration
More news from Victoria: UVic's University Systems department has just upgraded its web site to reflect overall website style changes at the University. The team is also increasing use of Twitter for help desk support. New look Twitter support
Gone mobile: The University of Saskatchewan is strategically emphasizing mobile services. The University's homepage as well as most of the first level pages are now fully functional on mobile devices. The mobile team plans on adding more of the University's sites and providing a mobile website template to ease the transition for other sites on campus. Their portal will become more mobile friendly in July, and the University expects all channel content to be mobile accessible by 2014. Mobile strategy for uSask
Google pilot praised: The University's of Ottawa's Google pilot has been a success with early adopters and the University is planning to move to full production services for all students by the middle of May. The new service will provide email (with 25 Gb of storage), calendaring, chat, Google Docs, and several other tools. Gaga for Google
Cloud SPAM filtering: The University of Calgary is moving its spam control for all email accounts to Microsoft's Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE). This cloud service is based outside of Canada and filters spam and malware from incoming and outgoing email. FOPE PAS
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