In addition to our routine work, we usually have dozens of unique and exciting projects on our plate at any given time.  Below you will find information about some of current projects, all of which will have a great impact on the students, faculty and staff at UCF...


PeopleSoft 9.0 Upgrade
The Enterprise Application Development & Administraton group will begin an upgrade project in fall 2008 for the PeopleSoft Student and Human Resource system. This project will take the system from the current 8.9 version to 9.0. June 11, 2009 is the targeted go live date for the implementation.

Beginning in fall 2008, meetings with the various campus advisory groups will be held to review the new system's features. The upgrade will provide enhanced features for employees, students and advisors in the areas of self service functionality. Administrative office's will have additional functionality for compliance and regulatory requirements.


Microsoft & Adobe Expand Software Licensing Program
Microsoft and Adobe have modified the UCF Student Licenses program to include UCF staff and faculty. Now staff and faculty can get huge discounts on the most popular products that once were available only to UCF students. For more information please contact the Computer Store staff at 407-823-5603.


PC Service Center adds Sony to Authorized Warranty Services
The PC Service Center is now authorized to do warranty repair work on Sony products, as well as Dell and Apple, for UCF depts, staff, faculty and students. The Service Center, located in CC1 room 108, also has extended hours to Mon-Thurs from 8am-6pm; Fri 8am-5pm and offers a free diagnostic service (call the PC Service Center at 407-823-3444 for details on this offer). The Service Center also performs non-warranty repairs, virus/spyware cleanup, and other services.


Computer Store Green Page
Checkout the new 'Going Green' page on the Computer Store web site, www.cstore.ucf.edu, for technology related green products and programs. Did you know you shouldn't toss ink and toner into the trash? Drop it off to the Computer Store or PC Service Center to have it recycled instead. There is also a link to the Sustainability Conference and the UCF Recycling program on the Going Green site.


Major Lab Upgrades
The Classroom 1 PC Lab (CL1, 101) was upgraded in Dec 2007 with 101 new Dell computers and two scanners which significantly improved performance in the lab. The lab is the most utilized of the four labs that CS&T manages. The College of Business is upgrading the network in BA1 and as part of that project the network for the Magruder Lab will be upgraded over the summer semester. The upgrade will improve network performance and reliability. The PC Lab staff also updated the web site, www.computerlabs.ucf.edu, with a new look and more detailed info.


ViewStar system 9.5.1 upgrade
The Document Imaging Management Systems group will be upgrading the “ViewStar’ system from the current 9.2 version to 9.5.1 in late fall of 2008. The upgrade will provide new integration features such as Microsoft Sharepoint, BizTalk server, Offices Add in, LDAP through Active Directory, ECopy , Goal Management and others. These features provide interconnectivity ease between ViewStar and enterprise systems such as PeopleSoft, Microsoft Sharepoint and other record management systems.


SAN migration
The data migration to the Hitachi SAN is complete.


Software upgrades for the pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
Systems support will be testing software upgrades for the pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Apache, php, IMP) over the summer. The August academic break is the target for the migration.