Priority Projects & Activities - December 2024

CITS Accountable Lead – LaVern Phillips

This project sets up the necessary Azure foundation components such as networking configuration; implementing the Palo Alto firewall, including moving exiting Azure firewall rules, converting network security groups (NSGs), move School of Medicine (SOM) to the CITS Azure Express Route (excluding University of Maryland Medical System [UMMS] network range). All Azure firewall rules have been moved to Palo Alto. The directory and Shibboleth both moved in November 2024. The NSG conversion is being planned. 

CITS Accountable Lead – Ryan Whyms

Description: This project will establish Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) framework & presence for a variety of use cases and investigate posture checking capabilities to evaluate remotely connecting devices. We have been resolving technical issues and optimizing the user experience while we plan the rollout of AVD more widely, starting with Central Administration.

CITS Accountable Lead – Brent Nickles

Description: This project moves UMB databases into cloud environments. Moves for systems such as Advance, Banner, and others will be to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). All the targeted databases have moved to the cloud as of early October 2024. This effort is completed.

CITS Accountable Lead – Diane Faranetta

Description: eDisclose, a financial disclosure reporting/tracking system currently used by the School of Medicine, will be implemented for further use by the rest of the University. The development is being completed. Test planning and support planning are also underway.

CITS Accountable Lead – Diane Faranetta

Description: Implementation efforts continue with our partner, Huron. The project is now in the Test phase. Because some issues were encountered during testing, we are reassessing the timeline.

CITS Accountable Lead – Diane Faranetta

This project replaces Philanthropy's current fundraising system, Advance. A formal kick-off was held in September. Design sessions are underway and iterative development for reporting and integration has begun. The target goal for go-live is January 2026.

CITS Accountable Lead – Michael Brown

Description: We are assisting the School of Nursing with migrating legacy reports to and developing new reports in Oracle Analytics Cloud for student data. As of December 2024, all but 36 of the 117 reports have been dealt with; those 36 will be handled separately. 22 RPTS accounts have been eliminated; eliminating the 5 that remain depend on dealing with reports for the Grants database and the VA database. This effort is expected to conclude by the end of January 2025.

CITS Accountable Lead – Dr. Peter Murray

Description: The goal for this project is to replace all the helpdesk ticketing platforms at UMB with one solution. The system SysAid, currently used by the School of Medicine, has been chosen to expand as the helpdesk ticketing platform across campus. We completed a current process review and compiled all requirements. This information has been shared with the SysAid vendor who is putting together an implementation plan.