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Concordia University
Concordia University was founded in 1893 in St. Paul, Minnesota as a university of the Lutheran church. It is one of ten colleges in the Concordia University system.
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Concordia University wished to reduce their overall costs associated with hosting student and faculty mailboxes on Microsoft Exchange. Concordia's intentions were to retain all faculty mailboxes on their Exchange server while hosting student mailboxes from Google Apps.
Concordia came to LTech for help in determining how the student mailboxes could be separately hosted on a different mail system while sharing the same address space. They also needed assistance in ensuring that email could safely be exchanged between both students and faculty without causing infinite sending loops, which could take their local Exchange server offline. - LTech Solution
- After careful review and design, a solution was delivered to Concordia which allowed for a smooth and very quick implementation meeting their requirements. LTech performed the necessary configuration change for Concordia, providing all students and faculty with a fully functional email system.
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With all staff and students using Google Apps, the cost of maintaining mailboxes dropped significantly. After implementing their solution, their total costs for managing a university-wide email system were reduced to nearly 10% of what their previous years investment had been.
Educarchile
Educarchile is an educational website with 50,000 users, mostly students, founded by the Chilean Ministry of Education and Fundacion Chile. It provides the Chilean community with the necessary resources to improve education in poor schools.
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Educarchile wanted to move their existing email system over to Google Apps and implement Single Sign On (SSO), so that users could automatically log into Google Apps when they they logged into their web portal. In addition, they wanted users synchronized between the portal and Google Apps to eliminate managing users in two places. In an interesting twist, all communication with Educarchile needed to be conducted in Spanish.
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This was one of Google's first customers on a Microsoft platform to integrate with Google Apps, and at the time there was no code available (in .NET) that worked with Google Apps or the SSO service. As a result, LTech built APIs from the ground up to integrate with the Google Apps provisioning and SSO systems.
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The APIs were successful and Educarchile went live as planned. Google ultimately contacted LTech regarding the .NET SSO APIs developed for this project and incorporated them on code.google.com. ( http://code.google.com/p/google-apps-sso-sample/ )
Gallaudet University
Gallaudet University is the first U.S. college for the education of the deaf and hard-of-hearing. Established by a philanthropist in 1856 and located in Washington, D.C., Gallaudet is the only university in the United States in which all programs are designed for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
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Gallaudet wanted to upgrade their email system from OutBlaze to a more user-friendly system such as Google Apps. They turned to LTech for assistance with migrating their current addresses and deleting suspended accounts.
- LTech Solution
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LTech provisioned SyncSuite for Google Apps into the Gallaudet environment and built a custom capture application to obtain addresses and passwords.
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Gallaudet University received a robust email solution that fit their needs and saved them time and budget. The custom capture application allowed users to perform the email migration at their own pace.
University of Winnipeg
The University of Winnipeg was established in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1967 as a public educational institution. The school focuses on quality undergraduate education.
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The University of Winnipeg was rolling out Google Apps to take advantage of the superior cost-of-ownership and features compared to other collaboration platforms. They required Single Sign On (SSO) and integration with their User Directory to complete a successful implementation and drive user adoption.
- LTech Solution
- LTech customized a stock proof-of-concept to create a university branded implementation. LTech integrated with a redundant LDAP source for high availability single sign-on authentication. The system was implemented using Java/J2EE.
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With a customized design layout combined with SSO for redundant authentication systems, the University of Winnipeg was able to implement Google Apps and easily plug into existing student information directories.
College of Southern Idaho
The College of Southern Idaho, established in 1965, is a public 2-year community college located in Twin Falls, Idaho. The school has approximately 7,000 undergraduate students, and offers associate and technical certificates in over 115 subjects.
- Challenges
- The College of Southern Idaho needed a way to improve communication between all students and staff on campus. Tired of expensive software licenses and limited storage space, they decided to switch their email system to Google Apps Education Edition for its superior webmail interface, integrated chat and calendar, and document sharing capabilities. CSI also wanted students to have more flexibility when logging in to their system. They came to LTech with a concept that would let students choose their login name from a list of options.
- LTech Solution
- After deploying Google Apps, LTech worked with CSI to determine a custom Single Sign-On solution that would meet their needs. Within two weeks, LTech developed and implemented an on-demand provisioning system that would sample each student's name and generate a list of name combinations. When a student provisions their email for the first time, they can log in with their student ID number and then choose an email address from the list of identity options.
- Results
- By moving to Google Apps, CSI could provide their students with increased storage space and better collaboration tools. Since Google offers free server storage and maintenance to colleges, they were able to free up time and resources to focus on other computing objectives. LTech's Single Sign-On customization work was completed just in time for the CSI summer '09 semester.
State College Area School District
The State College Area School District is a large school district in central Pennsylvania that includes public schools in the Borough of State College and five surrounding townships. The district operates 10 elementary schools, three secondary schools, and charters four schools for operation.
- Challenges
- State College Area was running an Active Directory environment and was interested in integrating it with Google Apps.
- LTech Solution
- LTech provided account synchronization, including configuration of the apps provisioning API and single sign-on. After integrating the synchronization scripts into SCASD's environment, LTech fully implemented the scripts using user email addresses as an account link between their Active Directory and Google Apps.
- Results
- SCASD is happy with their synchronized Active Directory and no longer has to waste time manually editing user information in Google Apps.
School District of Clayton
The School District of Clayton in Missouri is composed of a network of six schools educating students from kindergarten to twelfth grade. All educators and administrative staff are committed to providing a well-rounded education encouraging good character, knowledge, and wisdom.
- Challenges
- Clayton needed provisioning for their Active Directory.
- LTech Solution
- LTech configured Google Apps to automatically sync with Clayton's Active Directory.
- Results
- The sync solution was straightforward and successful.
University of LaVerne
The University of La Verne is a private research university in La Verne, California. Founded in 1891, the university is comprised of five colleges and a regional campus administration. La Verne offers an array of degrees, including bachelor, master, and doctoral.
- Challenges
- La Verne wanted to migrate their 16,000 students from a locally hosted Mirapoint mail solution to Google Apps. They also required a sync solution that would automatically create accounts in Apps from their LDAP server.
- LTech Solution
- LTech determined a solution for La Verne that included Apps configuration, initial provisioning, sync, and email alias importer script implementation. LTech migrated all student mailboxes, set up single sign-on services to interface with the University's Directory Services, and implemented sync scripts to manage user account changes and new students.
- Results
- The University of La Verne received a solution that met their needs. Students now only need to log in once to access Google Apps and their existing web portals, and La Verne's LDAP server automatically syncs users in Apps.
Harrison College
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In order to streamline efficiencies and meet the needs of their ever-growing learning institution, Harrison College decided to do a little housekeeping and migrate faculty, staff, and students' user accounts from their existing domain to a new, streamlined platform. To do this, meant moving thousands of user accounts containing existing calendars, contacts, and mail.
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LTech's first step was to provision users to their new domain by utilizing a standard IMAP mail migration. Second, LTech migrated user contact information to the new domain through their customized Contact Migration Tool and Calendar Migration Tool.
- Results
- LTech's customized solution extracted and moved user contacts from the existing domain to a Google Apps, while also populating contact and calendar information into the corresponding Google Apps account on Harrison's new domain. LTech also provided close customer support and training during and after the migration in order to ensure the best possible results.
Mesquite Independent School District
Mesquite Independent School District serves 6,000 students, 46 campuses, including 32 elementary schools, 8 middle schools, and 5 schools in the greater Dallas, Texas area.
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With such a massive student body and an equally sizable administrative staff, MISD was looking for a new way to operate their day-to-day data needs across their multiple schools, classes and servers.
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One of the major concerns MISD had was the inability to adequately authenticate users using its LDAP based directory service. By introducing the school district to a Single Sign On, LTech quickly rectified this problem by installing SSO on two servers.
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To make sure the district's migration went as smooth as possible, LTech provided 12 months of SSO support to ensure full compliance and customer satisfaction.
The University of the Arts
One of the United States' oldest universities dedicated to the arts,
The University of the Arts
is composed of three colleges: the College of Art and Design, the College of Performing Arts, and the College of Media and Communication.
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Like art, technology changes quickly. Unlike art, technology is not subjective. This philosophy rang especially true for the Philadelphia-based art college when it came time to migrate to a new communications platform in order to better serve its students, faculty, and staff.
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When LTech came into the picture, The University's mail, contacts, and calendars were set up for an Exchange 2007 server. In just a few days, LTech migrated 1350 users to Google Apps and provided LTech's Single Sign On which installed and configured by the University.
- Results
- Thanks to LTech, the university enjoyed a quick migration and was able to easily setup SSO using LTech's Single Sign On installer.
St Johns Prep
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Wanting to stay ahead of the the technological curve, St. John's quickly realized they would need more than just in-house support to achieve these goals. That's when they turned to LTech.
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In order to optimize their transition to Google Domain Services, LTech delivered its Single Sign-on product to leverage St. John's existing ActiveDirectory(tm), provide secure authentication to the cloud-based Google Apps platform, and reduce the down time often associated with a traditional installation. LTech also provided sixty days of transitional support.
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LTech quickly and efficiently solved St. John's migration problem by synchronizing user passwords so that they could be automatically reflected in the Google Apps for Education site.
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, California prides itself on its cutting edge academic curriculum as well as its world-class facilities.
- Challenges
Thomas Jefferson School of Law decided it was time to implement an institution-wide communications platform that would mimic the platforms their graduates would encounter in the “real world”.- LTech Solution
Working closely with LTech, the school decided their initial foray into the world of Google Apps would be to purchase a configuration for Google Apps Education Edition—in effect migrating 130 students and faculty away from their preexisting communication tools like Exchange.- Results
Students and faculty began to communicate more efficiently inside and outside the classroom—creating a more modern, streamlined platform that not only benefited the school, but helped ready students for the professional world beyond campus.
Logos Christian College
Priding itself as a non-traditional learning institution, Logos Christian College relies on its adoption of technology in order to further its goal of educating and recruiting the future leaders of its two hundred global and national schools of ministry.
- Challenges
In its continuing effort to adapt to the 21st century technological environment, Logos wanted to ensure its internal communication platform met the needs of its students and staff as well as achieving maximum impact in as short a time as possible.- LTech Solution
Working closely with LTech, Logos identified the key areas of their platform they wished to improve. With that starting point, LTech implemented a Google Apps configuration and carried out a supported Email Migration for 25 key administrators while also providing the Google Apps Power Panel for its faculty.- Results
After a thorough diagnostic overhaul of their communication platform Via Google Apps, Logos Christian College found themselves able to meet the high expectations they put in place for their 2009 calendar year.
New Hartford Schools
The New Hartford Schools Community prides itself on being a progressive, stimulating school district with a focus on instilling lifelong learning habits in order to prepare students for an ever-changing society.
- Challenges
With Google Apps already in place, New Hartford schools sought a way to efficiently back up their existing Google Documents on a domain-wide basis in order to alleviate the school district’s growing administrative needs.- LTech Solution
After assessing the school district’s needs, LTech recommended the installation of Google Docs Backup Tool for Windows. This highly effective program runs in the background, eliminating the need for manual backup of documents, thus creating a secure environment where data can be securely archived across the organization.- Results
The installation and configuration of the LTech Google Docs Backup tool allows New Hartford and to secure and archive documents with greater ease across their entire domain.
California State University East Bay
Offering over 100 areas of study for more than 13,000 students, Cal State East Bay, located in the eastern region of San Francisco, is part of the 22-campus California State University system and has been designated as a “top-tier” institution among masters-granting universities in the west.
- Challenges
In an effort to streamline communication between faculty, administration and the student body, Cal State East Bay began searching for a partner to help them purchase the right tools to achieve a cost-effective, self-applied migration for their calendar and contact services.- LTech Solution
After choosing LTech to lead this project, East Bay migrated their existing platform by implementing a Google Apps Calendar Migration Tool and a Google Apps Contact migration.- Results
As a direct result of the tools purchased from LTech and ease of migration that came with it, East Bay administrators provided migrated calendar and contacts to nearly 3,500 faculty, staff, and students.