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OIT Campuswide Projects

IT projects and strategic initiatives are high-impact and cover a wide range of scope and reach. Projects and initiatives are undertaken in support of furthering OIT’s mission to provide information technology leadership, services, and innovative solutions to promote the research, education, and community service goals of the University.

Current Projects
Completed Projects

IT Project Management Services

Contact the OIT Project Management Office to plan your next big IT project.

OIT PMO

Current Projects

AWS 2.0 Migration

OIT’s new AWS 2.0 enterprise-class cloud environment makes it easier to use and manage AWS services by offering more streamlined requests, higher baseline security, and a more simple billing and invoicing process.

AWS 2.0

Chat Retention Policy

On Dec. 20, 2024, OIT will implement a 1-year retention policy for Google Chat, Microsoft Teams Chat, and Zoom Chat messages.

Chat Retention

High-Density Wi-Fi Project

A multi-year journey to build out faster, more secure Wi-Fi across more of UCI.

Wi-Fi

Mitel PBX Phone System Retirement Project

OIT has started a multi-year, phased project to leverage cloud based telephone services including MS Teams Telephone Services and AWS Connect.

Mitel Phone Retirement

OneDrive Cloud Migration

OIT is modernizing local file storage by moving select OIT-managed clients to Microsoft OneDrive.

Cloud Migration

Student Data Warehouse (SDW)

OIT is creating a complete on-premise repository of historical, connected, documented, available, and accessible student data to optimize UCI’s strategic, tactical, and operational decision-making.

SDW

ZotDefend

ZotDefend is an initiative by UC Irvine to enhance cybersecurity across campus by implementing new security standards, ensuring compliance through mandatory training, and deploying advanced security measures to comply with UCOP-mandated targets.

ZotDefend

Completed Projects

ES Mail Retirement

OIT migrated all active ES Mail (aka Webmail) accounts to either Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 in an effort to increase email security.

ES Mail

Evolve Project

OIT’s Evolve: Talent Enhancement Program allows us to strategically and intentionally invest in and grow our employees to meet the organizational needs of today and tomorrow.

Evolve

Google Workspace Storage Changes

Google announced the end of unlimited storage for Google Workspace. Effective July 1st, 2024, UCI’s unlimited storage ended. OIT rolled out a new tiered model to manage storage and costs going forward.

Google Storage

Mailman to Google Groups Migration

Mailman mailing lists were migrated to Google Groups a cloud-based service with a similar feature set.

Mailman to Google Groups

ServiceNow Analytics

The ServiceNow Analytics project created a data mart with reports and dashboards to optimize project, service-level, support, and effort-related decision-making and reporting for project managers and leadership.

 

ServiceNow Analytics

UCI Single Sign-on Project

OIT retired its legacy UCI Single Sign-On (SSO) service WebAuth, in favor of a standards-based (SAML) service called Shibboleth.

SSO
Updated on:
October 24, 2024