IT Transformation Project

• OSUnet and Wi-Fi implementation complete in 28 buildings (100% of in scope buildings complete)
• Moving to OCIO services next: AEDE, Animal Science, Entomology, Hort. & Crop Science, Plant Pathology, SENR
•  17 of 25 departments move to OCIO services
• Virtual Servers
  • Retired: 68 of 89 
  • Migrated: 1 of 6
  • Replaced: 1 of 11
• Firewalls
  • Retired: 6 of 18

• OSUnet and Wi-Fi implementation complete in 69 buildings (102% of in scope buildings complete)
• Moved to OCIO services in March: ATI Hawk's Nest
• Moving to OCIO services next: Animal Science, Entomology, Hort. & Crop Science
•  27 of 35 departments move to OCIO services
• Virtual Servers
  • Retired: 36 of 47
  • Migrated: 5 of 6
  • Replaced: 2 of 3
• Firewalls
  • Retired: 23 of 26

• OSUnet and Wi-Fi implementation complete in 82 buildings (72% of in scope buildings complete)

• Moved to OCIO services in summer: Erie, Harrison
• Planning kicked off with: Fulton, Logan, Lake, Licking
• 85 of 103 statewide units move to OCIO services

Research:

AEDE

• Consulted with a Ph.D. candidate to build a Linux virtual machine for data analysis of travel time trends.

Entomology

• Consulted to upgrade active status hardware of greenhouses in advance of additional remote monitoring options.
• Assisted with the connectivity of research hardware to enable plotting, saving, and loading measured spectra data.

FABE

• Departmental review of IT resources.
• Cloned PC hardware in labs to extend the life of research instrumentation.
• Evaluated Wacom tablet for potential remote Zoom use in Construction Systems Management instruction.
• Device consultations for measuring & logging environmental variables within greenhouses.

FST

• Departmental review of IT resources.
• Gathered requirements and coordinated to deploy a PC based DNA sequencer.

HCS

• Implementation of specialized PC configuration for Gas Chromatograph use.

Plant Pathology

• Coordinating specialized IT support efforts & requirements for ecology lab.

Animal Sciences

• Implemented a fix to restore operations of feed management software.

ATI Dairy

• Addressed security vulnerabilities in Apache for continuing operations of SmartDairy reporting.

Apps:

• The team attended Apple Coding Academy to assist with future CFAES statewide educational endeavors.
• Risk assessments for LiveHelpNow, PigChamp, Walcom, RedBud, Framework.
• 2020 Wheat Performance Trial site updated.
• EventPro calendaring site moved to a new web server and updated to eventpro.cfaes.osu.edu.
• CFAES State Vehicle Mileage site updated to cover all CFAES vehicles.
• CFAES Conference room site updated to ets.cfaes.osu.edu.
• Bee Host Survey - helping identify host plants in bee photos from a citizen science project on iNaturalist.
• New Web Server Migration - Set up SSL with help of OCIO Solutions Engineers and gradually moving over sites. Working on getting Shibboleth working on a new server.
• Flipgrid approved for use in Extension.
• Consulted with Extension to identify tools for virtualizing annual conference.