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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.

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).

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.

The F5 Load Balancer can optimize the speed and reliability of your applications via both network and application layers. Using real-time protocol and traffic management decisions based on application and server conditions, extensive connection management, and TCP and content offloading, which dramatically improves page load times and the user experience.

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.

MSU’s campus cable television network serves university-owned department buildings, residence halls, and university apartments.

Virtual Desktop grants authorized students, faculty, and staff seamless access to licensed university software and applications via a user-friendly online portal at vdi.msu.edu.

Learning Space and Computer Lab Build is a comprehensive service focused on creating and upgrading technology-rich environments across the MSU campus. MSUIT will coordinate room renovations as needed and update technology critical for modern learning spaces and computer labs.

The Workstation Refresh service is a strategic initiative aimed at maintaining a modern, secure, and efficient computing environment across the organization. The service involves the systematic replacement and upgrade of aging desktop and laptop computers, peripherals, and related hardware on a scheduled basis—typically every 4 years.

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.

A step beyond file shares, File Services leverages elastic storage as an enterprise-class storage system with a growing set of feature tiers, producing the right price point for a variety of storage needs. It provides secure, scalable storage, which includes automatically captured recovery points.

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

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 Research Computing and Applications Consulting team has an intake process of 8 questions to evaluate requests and broker support to the appropriate technology services in ITS and across campus. These requests are usually followed up with a meeting to assist faculty, staff or students, to gain technology support and review additional aspects of their research workflows. This facilitation service provides project management and direct support as needed.

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

Application development, integration, and support of web applications that support the work of the Admissions Office.

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.

Virtual Private Network (VPN) is used to secure remote access to internal-only (non-public) services. MSU faculty and staff need to connect to trusted computing resources from remote networks across the general public Internet. ​​​​​​​VPN provides secure remote access and protects these communications across untrusted networks.

Vulnerability management is a continuous process that involves identifying, assessing, and remediating security weaknesses (vulnerabilities) in systems, applications, and software to reduce the risk of cyberattacks and data breaches. It's an ongoing effort to minimize the organization's attack surface and ensure the integrity of its IT infrastructure.

MSU business units rely on computing technology which needs to be protected from malicious code and threats. Endpoint Protection software helps ensure computing resources do not execute malicious code, alerts to threats, and facilitates remediation and response efforts.

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 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).

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.

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.