Network Upgrade Expenditures by Unit

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Network Upgrade Expenditures by Unit
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DNS Changes

• Panit Lisy
• Director Network Engineering and Services
• CITES

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DNS

• DNS is one of the most important functions that
  CITES provides to campus and the world. Without
  it, students, faculty and staff cannot reach
  external hosts and the public cannot reach
  University hosts and resources
• When it breaks, the Internet appears to be "down"

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DNS - Challenges

• The interface provided to IT Pros is antiquated
  and limited use
• Many current standards are not provided (Dynamic
  DNS, DNSSEC)
• Policies and procedures need to be documented,
  updated and publicized

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DNS - Goals

• Minimum impact on campus
• New physically diverse net of anycast DNS
  proxies which will automatically route DNS
  service around failures
• Improve the interface
• Offer new services

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DNS - Stakeholders

• Network Upgrade Technical Advisory Group
• IT Alliance
• IT Professionals
• CITES Divisions

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DNS - Status

• CITES is in the process of an RFP to select a
  vendor for DNS
• appliance solutions.
• modern, vendor supported web interface to DNS
  data management
• possible new centralized service

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DNS - Plan

• Launch implementation project this summer
• Tentative target date - by July 1, 2008

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DNS - Details

• CCSP Session - Network Tools Available to ITPros
• Corey Betka
• Chris Skaar
• Jon Marks

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CITES Exchange Services (Current)

• Exchange 2003 with SP2
• Client access methods MAPI, IMAP, OWA, RPC over
  HTTP (Outlook Anywhere), OMA, and ActiveSync
• Blackberry Enterprise Service, available since
  March 2007 (additional cost)

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CITES Exchange Services (Future)

• Exchange 2007 migration projected client
  migrations middle Fall 2007
• Client access methods MAPI, IMAP, Outlook
  Anywhere, OWA, ActiveSync, BES
• Proposed quota levels 100MB, 500MB, 1GB, 2GB,
  and 5GB
• Improved reliability using Clustered Continuous
  Replication (CCR)

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CITES Exchange Services More Information

• http//exchange-accounts.ad.uiuc.edu/
• Subscribe to service updates via RSS
  http//cs.ds.uiuc.edu/blogs/exchange/rss.aspx
• Email exchange_at_uiuc.edu with questions, comments,
  and suggestions

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Summary Information
Topic Tentative Completion Date Where to get
more information Active Directory Multiple
projects/dates ecc_at_uiuc.edu Network
Upgrade 2010 smeltzer_at_uiuc.edu Contacts
Database Academic year 2008 haggin_at_uiuc.edu
Directory Services End of September
2007 karenap_at_uiuc.edu DNS July 1st,
2008 plisy_at_uiuc.edu Exchange Mid fall
semester 2007 exchange_at_uiuc.edu Micro Cells 7
done by May 31st, 2007 liddle_at_uiuc.edu
Storage/Backups Start of FY 2008 cites-storage_at_
uiuc.edu VPN August 1st, 2007 stevens3_at_uiuc.edu
NetID PW Manager May 29th, 2007 (new
students) karenap_at_uiuc.edu Compass Upgrade Begin
May 20th, 2007 rgetty_at_uiuc.edu