SharePoint 2010

Project Announcement

Information Technologies is planning several changes to IT systems aimed at improving the user experience and providing for more secure access to university data and collaboration resources. These changes will result in the replacement of EagleNet. EagleNet, built on the SharePoint 2007 platform, currently hosts the portal, Department sites, MySites, and the UMW Reporting Center. Moving forward, these functions will be moved into two separate platforms.

SharePoint 2010 will house Department Sites and the UMW Reporting Center. MySites will be eliminated for all users and SharePoint 2010 will only be accessible to faculty and staff. The primary goal of this project is to improve the security and functionality of SharePoint and the Reporting Center.

EagleNet will be replaced with a new site which will be accessible to all faculty, staff, and students.   This site will include aggregation of important links to relevant UMW content / access to systems, as currently provided by Eaglenet. The proposed replacement would entail leveraging the UMW.edu platform to host this content for students, faculty and staff. The “mashup” site would aggregate custom channels and links, offer a pass-through to UMW systems, and allow for helpful items (like a link to the password-reset utility).

Project Status

As of April 29, 2013 the UMW Reporting Center and some Department Sites have been moved to the SharePoint 2010 platform at https://sharepoint.umw.edu. Other Department Sites will be migrated or built as new sites if requested.

EagleNet will no longer host Department Sites and the UMW Reporting Center but it will remain in place until tentatively January 2014.