Any idea on a timeline for that?  Fall 09?  Summer 2010?

-t



On 10/2/09 1:41 PM, "Matt Kolb" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On Sep 30, 2009, at 5:00 PM, Matt Kolb wrote:
> 
>> On Sep 30, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Olson, III Dean wrote:
>> 
>>> Good Afternoon,
>>> 
>>> I have a professor here in the department who uses Google Apps
>>> calendaring for personal use.  When he created his Google Apps
>>> account he used his MSU email address as his username.  Until late
>>> last night this was never an issue.
>>> 
>>> Now when he signs in he gets a prompt from Google Apps saying his
>>> MSU email address is already in use.  When he does a search formsu.edu
>>>  hešs redirected to a Google Apps login which looks like itšs been
>>> customized for MSU.  This leads us to believe there must be some
>>> agreement now between Google and MSU.  However when he tries to
>>> sign in with his email address in question on this customized page
>>> the password is incorrect and this is even the case when he
>>> supplies his MSUNet ID password.
>>> 
>>> Does anyone have any idea if MSU now has something going with
>>> Google Apps?  Thanks.
>> 
>> Dean,
>> 
>> We are working on getting an offering put together, and there are
>> some pre-provisioning steps that we needed to run through.  I can
>> confirm that this problem will exist for non-Team Edition @[log in to unmask]
>> accounts (there were approximately 800 Team Edition accounts that we
>> migrated to our new agreement).  I have a call in to Google on this,
>> and am hoping for some clarification shortly.  I have also been
>> keeping our Help Desk in the loop.
>> 
>> The goal with this service is to provide access using institutional
>> identifiers (netids/passwords via Shibboleth).  We are getting close
>> to having this ready, but we still have a bit of work to do.
>> 
>> There will be an official announcement as we get closer.  I will
>> post an update to this thread once I have a solution to your faculty
>> member's problem.  I'm sorry that this happened, and there was no
>> indication that we would have issues like this, but rest assured
>> that we're working on getting it sorted out as quickly as possible.
>> 
>> Again, I'm sorry for the inconvenience,
> 
> 
> Okay, apparently what's happened is that the users who are
> experiencing these problems effectively have "two" google accounts.
> One created prior to the formation of the Team Edition (and the
> subsequent formation of the Apps for Education Edition), and then a
> "new" Apps for Education Edition account (automatically created by a
> provisioning process, which Google provided to us).
> 
> In this case, Google has stated that the users will need to export
> their data from their existing google services, and import it into the
> "Google Apps for Education" account.  This seems funky to me, but
> Google claims it is the only solution.
> 
> I have been working through the ATS Help Desk to walk the people who
> have had trouble though the export/import process (still a small
> handful of people who have reported an issue).
> 
> At this point in time, if you have any issues, please work them
> through the Help Desk and we'll deal with them that way (it will help
> with documenting cases, and providing a central point of contact).
> 
> Once we get the SSO, documentation, and Help Desk training done, we
> will publish an announcement stating that the Google Apps for
> Education Edition is live and ready to go, and outline the Terms of
> Service and recommended usage.
> 
> ./mk
> 



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