1. Ellucian Portal: NYCDA’s journey to and use of portal 4.1
Presented by: David Palmer, CEO
The New York Conservatory for dramatic arts
6/18/2015
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2. Goals Single place to access all resources SSO
Ease of use for students, staff and faculty
Ease of management
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3. Where we came from Deployed PowerCampus Portal in September 2007
Extensive GUI modification
SharePoint 2007 and 2010 had limitations
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4. Our “upgrade” process
Spent significant time on preparing SharePoint environment
Did not migrate content
Manually moved content
Difficult mostly for rights and access issues otherwise not too tough
Comparative ease of configuration (no web application management tool or manual editing of config files
Now upgrades are a breeze – we did 4.0 to 4.1 in 30 min or less
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5. Environment
ISCSI SAN
For our size, a two-server topology was sufficient for all SharePoint services deployed
WFE Server – VMware, Windows 2012 R2 Datacenter x64, 32 GB memory
Database Server – VMware, Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise x64, SQL 2012, 64 GB memory, hosts other apps including PowerCampus, PowerFaids, SelfService
Larger usage case may require more resources
Use Ellucian ADWatcher and Profile Updater
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6. Demonstration
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7. Q&A
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8. Thank You!
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