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Service Name
Campus email and messaging
Description This service provides delivery, storage and receipt of electronic and voice messages between company employees.
Service Line

 Shared/Department Software Support 

Features
  • Send and receive email, both internally and via the Internet.
  • Provide calendar feature with scheduling capability for appointments and reminders.
  • Provide an easily accessible global address list of email addresses and “white page” information.
  • Provide mailbox storage space in fixed sizes to hold and store messages per identified business requirements.
  • Send and receive file attachments (such as Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, etc) with messages being sent or retrieved.
  • Provide the ability to create mail distribution groups holding a number of email addresses for easy distribution.
  • Archive, purge and delete Email and calendar items per corporate legal and business requirements.
  • Provide access to messaging services over the internet via company approved browser solutions.
  • Provide shared messages, contacts, and calendar items through Public Folders.
  • Protect messages and services with anti-virus and anti-spam solutions.
  • Provide encryption capabilities to secure sensitive messages.
Service Administrator (owner)

Cathy Frazier

VP Customer Provost
Availability

Campus email and messaging services are available 24 X 7 X 365 except during planned maintenance and upgrades.

Support

Support is provided 8:30 am - 5:00 pm  M - F except for campus holidays and shutdowns.

Initiated
  • Approved work Requests
  • Requests and incidents escalated from the Help Desk
  • Approved operational procedures
Charges

Individuals are responsible for paying for any third party software needed to interface smartphones campus email and messaging services.  

Delivery channels
  • Delivered messages via desktop, laptop, and smartphone devices
  • Completed work requests
  • Completed requests escalated from the Service Desk
  • Resolved incidents escalated from the Service Desk
  • Consulting Support
 Prerequisites
  • Functioning network and server infrastructure
  • Internet access for mail and messaging to/from the Internet
  • Person reporting a problem provides sufficient data to research the problem
  • People with smartphones are responsible for configuring their devices with provided settings
 Key Service Targets
  • 95% of electronic discovery requests satisfied within two weeks. 
  • 99% of email messages delivered.

Connect With Furman

     
3300 Poinsett Highway, Greenville, SC, 29613
Phone: 864-294-2000