The Systems group manages the day-to-day operations of the College's Windows network and Macintosh services. The network supports user file space (referred to as "the H: drive"), department file space (referred to as "the S: drive"), group and lab file space, web services for the IIS platform, and backup services for all the Windows-based servers. In addition, the Systems group assists the campus Windows Update Group in distributing software as needed on a College-wide basis, updates security settings (via WSUS), and monitors network traffic to maintain stability of the overall system. The infrastructure and services of the Systems group is documented in general at http://lw.lsa.umich.edu/lsait/admin/windows.asp.

For more detailed instruction, computer support personnel with the appropriate permission can access documents at https://lw.lsa.umich.edu/lsait/appsnet. To request access to this website, contact the Manager of the Systems Group.

The Systems Group hosts the LSA Windows Administrators meeting (LWA) to discuss operations of the network. This group meets on the 2nd Wednesday of each month. In addition, Systems maintains the email group, lsa-win-admins@umich.edu, which serves as an important communications tool for those staff who support Windows workstations in the College.

The Systems Group hosts the Macintosh Administrators group for the College. The focus for Macintosh services is for instructional and research users in the College. Over the summer of 2007, Systems brought to service a multimedia streaming service that will support instruction across LSA. Two mail groups exist for Macintosh issues. One is the lsa-mac-admins@umich.edu. The lsa-dev-osx@umich.edu email group is a subset of the lsa-mac-admins email list and is reserved for discussion about the system development of the Macintosh environment for LSA.

Beyond daily operations, Systems is also responsible for the future advancement of the college Windows network including the integration of the College Windows network into the University of Michigan Campus Computing Environment (UMCE). The Systems Group group also designed and maintains a mechanism for building new workstations, or upgrading existing workstations, to the most recent, supported version of Windows offered by the College.

• Tim Rolston is the Manager of the Systems Group, Windows and Macintosh Services and he can be contacted at: twrolsto@umich.edu
• Tim is also a member of the following groups or committees:
  • Campus Storage Group
  • Vista and Office Rollout Committee
  • Vignette CMS Committee
  • Exchange Partners for Campus
    
• To contact the Systems Group as a whole, use the email: lsa.sst@umich.edu.

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