Priority Projects and Activities - June 2024

CITS Accountable Lead – Brent Nickles

Description: This is an extension of the effort to move databases to the cloud. These databases were moved to the cloud, but need to be further moved into Azure SQL. This effort is tracking to completion by the end of September 2024.

CITS Accountable Lead – LaVern Phillips

Description: 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. Shibboleth, the single-sign-on login system will move to Azure mid-July. The NSG conversion will follow.

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: Trisha Kaufman

Description: This project will move all applications running on the ColdFusion platform to the Azure cloud environment. All application code has been migrated to Azure. All related databases have been  migrated as of 6/30/24. This project is now completed.

CITS Accountable Lead – Ryan Holtz

Description: This project implements CRM Recruit in various schools. Overall goal is to retire web admissions. All implementations have been completed except for Medical and Research Technology, which will resume after that group makes their fall 2024 application live on the web.

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 but one of the targeted databases have moved to move to the cloud, with the last one tracking to completion by the end of July 2024.

CITS Accountable Lead – LaVern Phillips

Description: This project will determine how we can decommission the F5 server traffic load balancer and achieve load balancing with existing tools. We have dealt with eTravel/PeopleSoft Portal, ColdFusion, PeopleSoft HRMS, and Student systems (Banner). This project is completed as of 5/29/24.

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. Development of additional functionality to fulfill regulatory requirements is underway.

CITS Accountable Lead – Diane Faranetta

Description: Implementation efforts continue with our partner, Huron. The project is now in the Build and Test phases with a target goal of an April 2025 campus go-live.

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.

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. Of the 117 legacy reports, 39 have been eliminated, 23 have been completed (due to consolidations), 17 have been marked to convert, and 38 are being analyzed to determine if they should be converted.

CITS Accountable Lead – Dr. Murray

Description: The Azure infrastructure and needed networking have been put together to create a Secure Research Environment (SRE). Both TriNetX, the research project feasibility appliance, and the SRE are currently in production use. We currently have 35 SREs in use at this time.