Service: Enterprise Email and Calendar
Audience
Al Staff and other authorised UoA users
Service Description
This provides al authorised users at The University of Auckland (UoA) access to email and calendar.
Standard Service
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Enterprise Mail Account
Offerings
Al eligible customers wil be given an enterprise mail account in a Microsoft Exchange
environment.
This wil provide:
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An email address
@auckland.ac.nz and supported subdomains
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Mailbox
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Calendar
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Tasks
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Contacts
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Notes
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Shared Enterprise Resources
This provides the ability for individuals or groups to share common resources. This includes:
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Shared Mailboxes (role based accounts)
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Shared Calendars
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Bookable Resources
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Default Features Supported by Exchange
Any default features provided by Microsoft Exchange are supported. For example, this includes:
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Sharing mailboxes or calendars with others
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Assigning permissions to Delegates
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Setting up shared or personal distribution lists
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Access to email via the Microsoft Outlook Web Application on the internet via
http://mail.auckland.ac.nz
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The ability to access Public Folders
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Security
The customers data wil be secured with ITS standard anti-virus and anti-spam solutions.
Mail deleted from the customer’s Microsoft Exchange account can be recovered by the customer
for up to 14 days from the date of deletion.
Optional Service
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Email Sub Domains
Offerings
This provides the feature of having email addresses from an
@<subdomain>.auckland.ac.nz.
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Email Aliases
Email aliases afford the customer the value of having another email address associated with
their current mailbox.
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Enterprise Email Archiving
Server based email archiving is available by request to the Service Desk. The default policy if
enabled wil archive al files older than 2 years. These archived files are accessible only via
Outlook 2007/2010 or Microsoft Outlook Web App on the internet via
http://mail.auckland.ac.nz.
Custom policies can be created upon organisational unit request.
Service Hours
Hours
Days
Including Holidays
24
7
Yes
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Maintenance Window
The maintenance window for this service, where any Change Management approved service
impacting work wil occur is Sunday 00:00 – 08:00. This is only indicative of when potential y
disruptive work may occur, and is only used on an approved, as-required basis.
Excluded from service targets are:
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Agreed maintenance windows
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Scheduled maintenance
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Events beyond reasonable control of Information Technology
Support Hours
Hours
Days
Including Holidays
7:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Monday - Friday
No
Only instances agreed as “Critical” priority wil be actioned outside support hours.
Service Metrics
Measure
Target
Restoration of a mailbox
90% of requests completed within 1 business day
Creating a new mailbox
95% of requests completed within 1 business day
Deactivate a mailbox
95% of requests completed within 5 business day
Creating a new shared resource
95% of requests completed within 1 business day
Changing mailbox settings
95% of requests completed within 1 business day
Availability of the email service
99.9%
Service Initiation and
Al incidents and service requests are to be logged with the ITS Service Desk.
Service Support
Hours
Contact Methods
7:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Phone x85100
Monday – Friday
Email
[email address]
(excluding public and UoA holidays)
Web
http:askit.auckland.ac.nz
Customer
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Adhering to Policies and Standards
Responsibilities
While using this service it is mandatory that al ITS Policies and Standards are abided by. The
Policies and Standards documents are found here:
https://policies.auckland.ac.nz/policies/Policies/staff-it.aspx
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Individual and Shared Mailboxes
Individuals and groups are responsible for setting up and managing:
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Sharing out any mailboxes, calendars, etc and the management of their delegates
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Client and server-side alerts or rules
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Mailbox Management
This includes items such as:
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Filing messages
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Deleting unwanted messages
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Calendar Management
This includes items such as:
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Accepting/declining meetings
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Scheduling meeting rooms
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Address Book/Contacts/Mailing List Management
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Adding or removing distribution lists the customer has created
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Removing the customer from unwanted distribution lists/mailing
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Long term retention of email for business or regulatory purposes
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The customer should not rely on this service as the sole repository for important
business data or data covered by regulation.
What ITS Provides
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The Environment and Platform for hosting Microsoft Exchange
This includes the running and management for the Microsoft Exchange servers, the prevention of
possible threats to data by means of anti-virus, anti-spam, firewal s, effective use of groups and
permissions, as wel as scheduled backups.
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End-to-End support
ITS wil provide end-to-end support for the Email and Calendar service which includes:
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Initial setup of accounts
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Setting up shared resources such as:
Mailboxes
Calendars
Distribution Lists
Bookable Resources
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Management of the Global Address list
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Creating and the on-going maintenance of support documentation for end-user self-help
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Integration for Supported Mobile Devices
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Depending if the customers mobile device is IMAP or BES capable; it should integrate easily with
the ITS Email and Calendaring service. Consultation with the manufacturer of the customers
device wil determine if the mobile device has these capabilities.
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Charges
The UoA is moving to an annual capacity planning model whereby the Faculties and Service Divisions
wil forecast their growth in ITS services 12 months in advance. ITS wil request funding (as part of
the annual CAPEX round) and provision for this growth. The Faculties and Service Divisions wil
manage how and when these services are consumed. Where growth is required in excess of the
forecast a separate discussion is required with ITS to see how this can be best managed, ie within
current infrastructure capacity or where new infrastructure may be required.
Those stipulated as “Optional Service Offerings” may incur a charge. In such instances, agreement
and negotiation of terms wil be sought prior to action being taken.
Service Availability
Service Responsibilities
Professional Staff
Yes
Service Governance
Client Services Governance Board
Academic Staff
Yes
Technology Service Ownership
Brent Summers
PHD, Thesis and Research Staff
Yes
Business Service Ownership
Liz Coulter
Research Institute and Centre Staff
Yes
Service Delivery
ITS
I.T. and Technical Staff
Yes
Students
Yes
Service Category
Core User Services
Service Group
Communication and Collaboration
Service
Enterprise Email and Calendaring
Status
Production