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By barbara towell on October 21, 2020

In 2019, Building Operations completed a project to modernize its aging Land and Building Files (LBS) file server. Staff copied what they required to the new server and left everything else on the LBS server for one year. The year acted as a cushion ensuring nothing crucial was left behind. Over the summer of 2020, the […]

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Stephanie Friesen, Records Management Specialist and Pearle Lundeen, Functional Analyst, Building Operations

Building Operations vs file-server

By barbara towell on July 31, 2019

In October 2018, Building Operations embarked on a two-part odyssey to modernize its aging file-server and produce governance documentation supporting records management. While this sort of work is regularly carried out across the university, this particular file-server was special; it had successfully annihilated two previous attempts at modernization. “It had a very bad reputation for […]

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Interview with co-op student Stephanie Friesen

By barbara towell on November 20, 2018

In this blog post we asked Stephanie Friesen, second year iSchool student specializing in Archival Studies to tell us about her experience undertaking a Records Management Co-op with Building Operations here on campus. What are your responsibilities for this Co-op? I’m involved in two projects with Building Operations. One is the EAD (enterprise active directory) […]

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