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Workstation and workgroup services

Information Technology's Workgroup Services provides server-side planning, development, implementation and support for most of VSU's Novell, Windows and Linux workgroups environments.

Workgroup Services plays a vital role in the development of our soon-to-be "single sign-on" (SSO) environment. In this environment, each current email user (all faculty, staff and students) will have an account and password on the Novell tree VSTATE. Everyone's email username & password will be the same across all systems.

Eventually "generic" logins in VSU's computer labs will be a thing of the past - as each user will login to any computer on campus with their own username/password - and thereby gain access to every file share that has been provided to them - including their home directory (U:) and 'My Documents.' This project has been a very large undertaking - involving development and training in virtually every unit within Information Technology.

Workgroups' largest role in SSO has been developing the accessibility of any users' files from both on campus and in the near future, access to those files from anywhere on the Internet.

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Current Events

-Further Development of the new VSTATE tree (sso)

-Server consolidation planning and preparation

-Development of tools for managing a much larger user base

-Training and development in SUSE OES Linux

Things to Expect

-Implementation of VSTATE and cluster server: BLAZE

-Each user will get 1GB of personal file storage

-Development of decentralized management tools