"I Can't See the Forest Through the Trees" - Windows 2000 Multi-Agency Single Forest
Hand outs
Intended Audience:
This seminar is intended to attract management-level and senior analyst staff from the business and administrative environment as well as from within information services. Particularly, the presentation is designed to give explanation of the business value that can be reaped from joining the statewide forest, the value behind the technical investment, and the role that agency managers can play in making the decisions to participate in the multi-agency single forest.
Abstract of Seminar Contents:
In sync with Governor Locke’s remarks at the 2001 Leadership Day, "making better use of technology," this seminar is intended to educate, inform and demonstrate business value and tangible benefits of being part of the State of Washington Forest.
Over the years, technology has matured and evolved to where sharing resources amongst agencies is finally becoming a reality. The State of Washington has a unique opportunity to share resources not only with the major service agencies OFM, DOP, GA and DIS, but with other government agencies as well. There are many systems, applications, templates, core service modules and routines that can be shared. Today, through the use of Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory, if agencies participate in a single forest, employees can share these resources from each agency. The State of Washington Windows 2000 Deployment Project endeavors to do just that - build a single forest where participating agencies can reap the benefits of shared resources as if it were a single enterprise.
Outline:
Opening Remarks and Overview – Todd Shelton, Netdesk Corporation
- What is the Statewide Forest; Windows 2000 deployment
- What is Active Directory
- What benefits can I expect - the business value
- How have other government agencies or private companies benefited
State of Washington Windows 2000 Deployment Project – Phil Grigg, Dept. of General Administration, IS Manager, and W2K Committee Chair
- History of the project and process
- Windows 2000 project participants and observers
- Governance model and committee overview
- Current project status
How Has Washington Implemented Statewide Active Directory – John Ditto, Senior LAN Engineer and Active Directory Chair, DIS
- Rules of the environment
- Change management and issue escalation
- Service level agreement
- Agency welcome kit status
- What are the risks or issues if we do not join or join later
Enterprise-wide Application Benefits and Foreseen Value – Gregg Arndt, Department of Personnel, IS Manager, and Forest Application Developers Committee Chair
- Practical aspects of the Active Directory – storing statewide information
- Committee participants and status
- Foreseen benefits
- What if my agency doesn’t join now; what are the issues and impacts. Can we join later.
Practical Application Example – The Single Log-on Project - Allen Schmidt, Office of Fiscal Management Statewide Financial Systems, Project Manager
Questions and Answers
Wrap-up
Seminar Registration
Space is limited. Registration is on a first come/first served basis. Registration closed. (01/07/02)
For More Information . . .
Contact: Sheryl Hall or Dennis Jones,
IPMA Professional Development Committee Co-Chairs.