The IT Standards Workgroup serves as a guiding influence on the direction of information technology investment at the University of Vermont. In the interest of ensuring faster, more consistent, and generally better support for your investments, the committee will set the standards for centrally supported and centrally managed technologies.
These standards will include all types of information technology purchased by the University. It is not the aim of this group to limit the choices available to members of the University community, but rather to recommend directions for technological investment to individuals and departments.
Our policies and procedures are explained at our web site.
http://www.uvm.edu/itnetwork/standards/
Here you will find information about our currently adopted standards, notes on the standards currently under discussion, and ways that interested members of the UVM Community can participate in the work of the IT Standards Workgroup.
Below you will find several changes to the landscape of information technology at UVM. The Executive Summary list the points of information that are most likely to impact individuals and departments. More detail, including the decision-making process, is available online.
The Standards Workgroup selected several new products over the past year:
If you would like to be aware of the standards discussions, please join the it-standards@list.uvm.edu listserv. See "Getting involved" below.
UVM's maintenance contract with Rhinosoft expires in July, 2002. We will continue to be able to use and distribute the version of FTP Voyager that is available on the expiration date.
However, there are some additional features of another product, CuteFTP Pro, which make it an attractive alternative. Specifically, GlobalScape's CuteFTP Pro supports SSH/SFTP as well as standard FTP.
For additional information or to participate in the discussion, please See "Getting involved" below.
Current supported operating systems and central services all support TCP/IP-based communication. In the interest of reducing network traffic and simplifying network and desktop configurations, CIT has proposed that IPX (used by older Novell products) and AppleTalk (used by older Macintosh applications) not be routed via the campus network. These protocols would continue to function within subnets for peer-to-peer networking.
For additional information or to participate in the discussion, please See "Getting involved" below.
| Operating Systems | Windows XP Pro | Macintosh OS X |
| Office Suites | MS Office Standard (97 , 2000, XP) Lotus Approach, Lotus 1-2-3 |
MS Office Macintosh (98, 2002, v.X) |
| Email software | Outlook Express, Netscape Messenger, Eudora 5 | Outlook Express, Netscape Messenger, Eudora 5, AppleMail |
| Web Browsers | Internet Explorer, Netscape | |
| Antivirus | Norton Antivirus | |
| File Transfer (FTP) | FTP Voyager | Fetch |
| Calendaring | CorporateTime | |
Complete list available online at http://www.uvm.edu/cit/software/?Page=recommended.html
See also a list of current software licenses http://www.uvm.edu/cit/software/?Page=licenses.html
The following operating systems will be supported:
Support for the following operating systems will be discontinued:
The following operating systems are not supported:
The standard tools for office or business productivity are:
Support for the following versions will be discontinued:
The IT Standards Workgroup is an open body. Participation by members of the UVM Community is vital to the successful. You can participate in a variety of ways:
On behalf of the IT Network and the Standards Workgroup,
Geoffrey Duke,
Coordinator, Information Technology Standards Workgroup
Computing Analyst II, Computing & Information Technology
This document is also available online at http://www.uvm.edu/itnetwork/standards/?Page=standards-2002.html
Last modified May 31 2002 01:05 PM
