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August 17, 2006:
The Architects of Information Technology: Creating Integration across Applications and Infrastructure from an Enterprise View Two core services of P&SP: Application and Infrastructure Architectures.
August 17, 2006:
Peeking into the Minds of Interns: An Intern's Story and What Interns Think about Maine State Government's Technology My experience as a summer intern.
August 17, 2006:
Maine and Apple Sign Contract to Continue Maine Learning Technology Initiative Apple equips 32,000 students and 4,000 teachers with iBook notebook computers, wireless networks, training, and technical support.
August 17, 2006:
Security Update Last winter, two New England states suffered serious breaches of computer security.
August 17, 2006:
The Check is in the Mail To eliminate delays and reduce the overall administrative cost associated with the disbursement of payroll checks, beginning with the September 6th payroll, all checks will be mailed to OIT employees.
August 17, 2006:
Technology Upgrades Support Public Safety Game wardens receive laptops through a Federal Grant.
August 1, 2006:
Agency Licensing Management System The Department of Professional and Financial Regulation relies on a single software solution to manage regulatory programs of over 40 of its professional licensing programs and the insurance, consumer credit, and securities industries.
August 1, 2006:
Help Desk Consolidation Client Technologies Services has finalized plans for a physical consolidation of our staff who support the Natural Resources, Regulatory, and Administrative/Cultural agencies.
August 1, 2006:
DNS/DHCP A Brave New World for DNS & DHCP Services.
August 1, 2006:
The Role of the Agency Information Technology Director The position of Agency Information Technology Director, new to the Office of Information Technology, was created with the express purpose of proactive management of the relationship between the client state agency and OIT.
August 1, 2006:
What is the TEF? The TEF began its life as the Information Services Managers Group (ISMG) but over time the role of the ISMG changed enough that a name change was warranted.
July 17, 2006:
Project Management Office Website to Include The 20 Minute IT Manager The Project Management Office Website, which will be launched in early August, will include the 20 Minute IT Manager mentoring sessions developed by TenStep.
July 17, 2006:
Help America Vote Act (HAVA) The two major components of HAVA are the Central Voter Registration System (CVR) and the Accessible Voting Solution (AVS).
July 17, 2006:
Enhancing Information Sharing and Supporting Technology Planning The Policy and Strategic Planning group of the Office of Information Technology is charged with supporting agencies to better share information and deliver more effective and timely services.
July 17, 2006:
InforME Board Presentation on Payment Card DSS, Best Practices & Security At the June monthly InforME Board meeting, Jayne Holland, legal counsel and security officer for NIC, Inc. presented information about payment card industry data security standards (DSS), best practices, and security.
July 17, 2006:
Matrix Management – Working in a Horizontal Structure On June 28, 2006, staff of the Office of Information Technology participated in a Matrix Management workshop held at the William S. Cohen Community Center in Hallowell.
June 30, 2006:
State of Maine Developers Forum Initiated On June 8 IT professionals from across Maine state government converged on the Florian Room at the Central Maine Commerce Center for what was touted as being the Kickoff Conference for the State of Maine Developers’ Forum.
June 30, 2006:
Opt In to Receive Gartner Research on Topics of Interest to You Since the Office of Information Technology is a Gartner client, OIT employees have the option to receive emails summarizing their research in various Information Technology topics at no cost.
June 30, 2006:
The "Green Team" is on the Move The Office of the CIO (Green Team) will move from Edison Drive to 36 Anthony Avenue in July.
June 30, 2006:
An Experiment with Spam Hypothesis: Putting email addresses on web pages causes spam.
June 30, 2006:
OIT Enterprise Services Rates for FY08-09 OIT is nearing completion of another transformation milestone... new OIT rates that reflect the consolidation of IT resources for improved delivery of IT services.
June 15, 2006:
Can Two Work Cultures Marry Each Other? Client Technologies’ Customer Service Training Program builds interpersonal bridges to support OIT’s transformation.
June 15, 2006:
Maine.gov Annual Upgrade Each year the State launches an upgrade of Maine.gov that includes a cluster of improvements and new features.
June 15, 2006:
Protecting Confidential Data – a new Maine Law What would you do if you suspect State maintained private information has been compromised?
June 15, 2006:
Radio Services For the past several months the Office of Information Technology has been engaged in a consolidation effort that has had little visibility.
June 15, 2006:
RSS Overview In the Maine.gov upgrade on May 31, RSS service was offered to citizens for the first time by the State. RSS, is known as Really Simple Syndication.
June 15, 2006:
Reducing Email Spam – a Draft Policy and Best Practices Did you realize that approximately 1/3 of the email the State receives is unsolicited, unwanted spam?
May 31, 2006:
Office of Information Technology (OIT) - Transition Phase Transition Status Regarding Desktop Support Services and Server Consolidation
May 31, 2006:
State Initiatives in Electronic Records Management Increasingly state records are generated, used and stored in electronic form, and our paper-oriented records management systems and procedures have not kept up with this shift in technology.
May 31, 2006:
Collaborative Landcover Project Provides Better Data, Saves Money for State of Maine Agencies collaborate with each other, municipal, regional and federal partners to create multiuse GIS Landcover data
May 31, 2006:
State of Maine Application Developers Forum Do you manage, develop or maintain State of Maine computer applications? If so, you are invited to a...
May 31, 2006:
Tracking Problems and Requests for Service with the New Enterprise Software, "Footprints" Many agencies have transitioned from another product, or in some cases no product, to Footprints to offer improved customer support.
May 17, 2006:
The New Office of Information Technology (OIT) Communication We are pleased to announce OIT is initiating a bi-weekly communication starting today!
May 16, 2006:
Wireless Internet Access Policy Starting in early May an interagency team has been drafting a policy to govern the private sector provision of free, or low cost, wireless internet access services to the public from State of Maine owned or leased facilities. Likely State facilities for public wireless internet access may include ferry landings, highway rest areas and state parks.
May 16, 2006:
New Policy Adoption/Revision Process Effective May 9, 2006, the Policy on the Adoption/Revision of Enterprise Information Technology Policies, Procedures and Standards (5/9/2006), has been adopted by Chief Information Officer, Dick Thompson.
February 1, 2006:
OIT Audit Findings Released Learn about the Opega State-Wide IT Planning Review.
November 14, 2005:
OIT Leadership Personnel Selected The individuals chosen for leadership positions within the new OIT structure were announced on September 23rd.
November 14, 2005:
OIT Leadership Personnel Selected (Text Version)
October 12, 2005:
Network Basics and Troubleshooting This presentation is made to provide a basic understanding of the State of Maines computer network. (MS-Word document)
September 30, 2005:
DHHS Technology Team and State Library Webmaster Receive MERIT Awards A technology team from the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the Webmaster for the Maine State Library recently received awards for excellence in their roles as state government technology professionals.
May 10, 2005:
Exchange 2003 Mail Migration Information on the ongoing Exchange 2003 Mail Migration, including schedule, things users should do prior to the migration, and agency contacts.
May 10, 2005:
Shiva Dial-Up Users On May 15th, the 141 address pool for the Shiva system was converted to a 10.0.0.0 address. A registry change will be required on client machines using Shiva Dial-out.
May 2, 2005:
Decommissioning of the 141.114.0.0 Network As of June 1, all remaining support for the 141 was terminated.
March 7, 2005:
Oracle High Availability On Sunday, March 6th, OIT/BIS took another step in implementing a high-availability solution for the Oracle Environment. The web server and application server layers were split between data centers (EDOC and CMCC).
February 14, 2005:
State of Maine Wireless Service Description Wireless service as described herein refers to the secure provision of wide area data network services to personal computers (laptop computers, desktop computers and selected handheld computing devices) through wireless access points.
January 28, 2005:
Skowhegan ATM Service The Office of Information Technology, in partnership with Verizon and the Emergency Services Communication Bureau (E-911), has committed to build a SONET (Synchronous Optical Network) fiber optic ring between major state facilities in Augusta and Lewiston
January 10, 2005:
SONET The Office of Information Technology, in partnership with Verizon and the Emergency Services Communication Bureau (E-911), has committed to build a SONET (Synchronous Optical Network) fiber optic ring between major state facilities in Augusta and Lewiston
December 6, 2004:
Key Plaza Downtown Augusta Radio Link The Office of Information Technology is on the verge of upgrading wide area network speed to Key Plaza. The radio mast and antenna have been installed and the data link should be installed this week. Key Towers data service will be upgraded from 1.5 meg
November 29, 2004:
Central Maine Commerce Center WAN Upgrade State agencies began to move into CMCC (the old Digital or SCI building) in June 2004. The Department of Public Safety was an early building tenant. Later in the winter OIT and Maine Emergency Management Agency will move in.
November 23, 2004:
Hallowell Annex WAN Speed Upgrade The Hallowell campus had been connected to the WAN via two T-1 circuits (1.5 megabit per second link). This link served the Dept. of Labor, Marine Resources, Dept. of Audit and others. OIT has been planning to upgrade network service to Hallowell
September 22, 2004:
BIS Rates BIS completed its rate setting process for fiscal year 2005 and the rates were reviewed and approved by the Information Services Policy Board on September 16th.
September 22, 2004:
Enterprise GIS Services The Maine Office of GIS received several grants from the Federal government this summer that support state government efforts to provide enterprise GIS services.
September 15, 2004:
BIS Experience with Implementation of Windows XP Service Pack 2 In early September BIS upgraded many Microsoft Windows XP PCs to Service Pack 2 using software update server. Click here to learn about our experience.
September 15, 2004:
ADAM Group Application Support Team Called the Application Support Team (AST for short), this group of professionals will be charged with ensuring each application remains operational, no small task considering ADAM supports roughly forty applications.
