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Spartan Mail and related Spartan 365 software, including applications located at https://spartan365.msu.edu and downloaded Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook), are provided to students while they attend the university and to faculty and staff members while they are employed by the university.

MSU provides campus telephone services through the Avaya Campus PBX system. The system offers various features, like voicemail, EC-500, call forwarding, unified messaging, and softphone applications.

Wireless printing and remote printing via 'print.msu.edu' - MSU Print allows you to print to specific MSU Printers from anywhere in the world using the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP).

Workstation Support offers hardware support to academic, administrative, clinical, and research units. The Workstation Management Support (WMS) teams partners with each unit to find the right level of support based on different environments and needs. WMS provides front line in-person and remote support to keep MSU-owned devices running smoothly throughout the entire assets lifecycle.

The MSU IT Service Desk (ITSD) is the single point of contact to the user community for communication, coordination, and support of technology at MSU. The support model includes first level technical troubleshooting and support and limited functional support for learning management systems and student information systems.

The Networking Team takes on the critical role of upholding and enhancing the university's expansive wired network infrastructure, which includes providing internet service to Merit network. Their responsibilities span across the entire network ecosystem, covering the campus core, building edge, datacenter core, and satellite networks. This complex network management facilitates the seamless flow of substantial data, meeting the modern campus community's ever-increasing demands for connectivity and data access.

MSU NetIDs are assigned to all current faculty, staff, students and retirees. A NetID is a unique alphanumeric identifier auto-generated from the user's name.

Your NetID is your personal identifier at MSU and serves as your login to many university computing and networking services. Your NetID also determines your MSU email address which is netid@msu.edu (e.g. the NetID msuspartan would have the email address msuspartan@msu.edu).

TeamDynamix is a SaaS Cloud solution that offers automated workflows, real-time dashboards, task visualization, centralized collaboration, and time tracking to streamline work processes and improve productivity.

Learning Management Systems (LMS) provides support and troubleshooting for MSU’s LMS platforms, including D2L (Desire2Learn) and other related tools. The service covers user inquiries, technical issues, and guidance on LMS features such as course creation, content management, assessments, grading, and communication tools.

DNS (Domain Name System), DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol), and IPAM (Internet Protocol Address Management), collectively referred to as DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM), facilitates the management and use of domain names and IP addresses.

Risk Assessment is a service that applies to all types of technology from first-party related through third-party related. It is a process for identifying, analyzing, and prioritizing potential risks and their impact on the organization. This includes discussion on items from pre-procurement of a given solution/service through the end of life for the solution.

Learning Space and Digital Classroom Support provide technical assistance for the audiovisual and IT equipment in MSU classrooms. When technology issues arise during classes, MSU IT analysts respond promptly to troubleshoot and resolve the problem, ensuring minimal disruption to teaching and learning activities.

IPF IT supports workstation hardware and software, printer, file management, and mobile device consulting, procurement, and support.

Systems Hosting uses technology that makes one server appear to mimic multiple servers running at one time. This hosting is more efficient in server capacity, hardware, and energy usage.

Clinical Imaging is a collection of various imaging and patient record service offerings available by request for our HCI Radiology employees, Teleradiology Partners, and Imaging partners.

MSU business units use web sites for marketing and web applications to meet business objectives. Web Application Firewalls protect the applications from known threats and attackers by front-ending browser client communications.

MSU Controllers Offices is implementing Travel at State - Concur; an end to end University travel system that provides travel profiles, pre-trip authorization, cash advance, encumbrances, reservations, expense reconciliation, reimbursement, traveler duty

Enterprise Generative AI Platform offerings for the University.

The Enterprise Business Systems (EBS) Portal is the entry point to administrative systems used university-wide. Based on security roles, the EBS Portal provides MSU employees and retirees access to their unique combination of authorized administrative systems. Embedded as part of MSU’s HR/Payroll System, it provides direct access to various human resources functions.

Student Information System (SIS) supports administrative processes critical to the matriculation and graduation of Spartans every year. The Student Information System is comprised of Oracle’s PeopleSoft Campus Solutions and Oracle’s Student Financial Planning which is supported by technical developers and PeopleSoft.

Cryptography protects the confidentiality of many computers and applications rely on trusted SSL certificates to operate. The SSL Certificate service maintains a public Certificate Authority from which MSU can issue its own certificates and enable this strong encryption.

Student Feedback Systems Support provides assistance with the tools and platforms used to collect and analyze student feedback, such as SPLS (Explorance Blue). This includes support for survey tools, course evaluation systems, and other feedback mechanisms that help improve the educational experience by gathering student input.

Cloud Platform services offer exceptional compute power, database storage, content delivery, and other functionality for scalability and growth. Solutions include high reliability, low-cost, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (Paas) to fill a range of needs including basic servers, long-term data storage, mobile application development, and storing and analyzing large volumes of data.

4-H Club Management offers staff a simplified process for submitting requests to create, update, or dissolve a “club” in 4-H Online. It is designed to support counties in establishing new clubs or entities, making changes to existing ones, and disbanding or archiving those no longer active.

Digital accessibility is the practice of designing and providing equitable user experiences so that individuals with disabilities are able to independently acquire the same information, engage in the same interactions, and enjoy the same services within the same timeframe as individuals without disabilities, with substantially equivalent ease of use.