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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.


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.


Workstation Management Services (WMS) offers hardware support to academic, administrative, clinical, and research units. WMS 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.


Risk Assessment is a service in IT for everything 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.


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.


Elastic Storage is a storage space created by MSU IT that provides users the ability to save, access and share files among designated users.


MSU provides voicemail services through the Avaya Aura Messaging System.


IT Services provides Virtualization Services for the IT Services community as well as for other MSU Departments.


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).


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.


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


MSU operates one of the largest networks in the world which provides connectivity across the Internet for hundreds of thousands of users. Our computing resources are under constant attack from external threat actors so we use next-generation firewalls to provide network segmentation from the public Internet and its various internal computing environments. This is a goal of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (PR.PT-4 Segmentation and Filtering).


This service is intended for users supported by WMS Support. Use this service to request equipment for new staff, return equipment for departing staff, or request a refresh for existing staff supported by the WMS Support Group.


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.


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.


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.


MSU IT Web Hosting offers MSU units and MSU-affiliated organizations the ability to put their websites online with an approved domain name of their choice. MSU IT manages the web hosting account setup and routine system tasks.


This is the tool used to track and manage health records for patients seen in MSU clinical environments.


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.


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.


Front end stores system for MSU Financial Transactions.


The Networking Team is responsible for delivering extensive university wireless services that prioritize widespread coverage and adaptability for the modern campus community. Their responsibilities encompass hundreds of campus buildings, with a strong focus on delivering excellent customer service and user-friendliness. This wireless service incorporates Eduroam, ensuring easy access for both the campus community and guests, fostering a seamless and efficient wireless experience.