Technology Advisory Group

If you have an account on the old webserver, Tiger, you should have just gotten this message from Connie Wisdo:

There is an attached file (here) with instructions for faculty to get their own website on the CMS. We highly encourage faculty who wish to maintain campus-based webpage to look at these instructions and consider building their own web page in the CMS this summer. The transitional webserver will NOT be a permanent space. Late this summer, TAG will be posting some more detailed instructions, as well as demo webpages, showing what is possible for faculty within the CMS. More details to follow.

Dear Faculty Members,

In case you missed the notices in Royal News, my.scranton, and Bboard, I wanted to share the following information, because you have a non-empty Web directory on the Tiger (academic.scranton.edu) server.
The Web server which is known as both “Tiger” and academic.scranton.edu will be officially retired on July 28, 2011, due to its operating system’s end-of-life. (Nearly all of the official web pages/sites of our academic departments and programs that were previously housed on the academic server (Tiger) have been migrated to the Web Content Management System (CMS).)
A transitional Web server is being set up for departments, clubs, and faculty/staff that have not yet migrated their Web sites to the CMS. Individuals (Faculty/Staff) who wish their web directories moved to the transitional server must send an email request to me (Connie Wisdo (wisdoc1@scranton.edu)) by July 1, 2011. In your email request, please specify the URL of the home/index page of the site(s) you need moved.
You also have the option of moving your Web site(s) to the CMS. Attached is a document containing more details. If you would like to move your site to the CMS, please contact the CTLE, as directed in the attachment, and they can provide assistance to you.
If you have your site moved to the transitional server, you will have SFTP access to your site on the new server, on July 29th, using your my.scranton username and password. Instructions will be sent to faculty in a few weeks, and will also be posted to the TAG Web site. Your Web site address (URL) will not change when it is moved to the new server. URLs will still begin with “http://academic.scranton.edu/”

Note: both the old academic server and the new transitional server will be unavailable for any updates to any Web sites from July 27th to July 29th. Web sites will be accessible on a read-only basis during this time.

If you have any questions, please contact me. For those of you who already sent me an email requesting your site be moved, and have received a reply, there is no need to contact me again.