Tentative Agenda

Updates to MSU’s Technology Purchasing Process: Members of University Services, IT Security, and MSU’s Web Accessibility team will present changes made to the IT procurement process to minimize security and data risks and maintain accessibility compliance for both new products and renewals.

MSU IT Service Management Improvements: Mark Seyka and Kelly Wilcox, with the MSU IT Service Management team, will present new systems being rolled out to the campus community. Specifically, the new service status system (https://msuservicestatus.statushub.io) launching on May 15, 2016, and the changes to the MSU IT knowledge base, http://techbase.msu.edu, that went into effect April 22. Visit http://bolderit.msu.edu/projects/service-management/ for details on other continuous improvement initiatives.

Green IT Practices: The IT team with other staff from Infrastructure Planning and Facilities will describe some of the initiatives they have implemented to reduce campus energy consumption. Specifically addressing server room/data center cooling, hardware selection, and configuration and training.