Systems, Architecture, & Infrastructure (SAI)
Barry Ribbeck, Director
The application of information technology systems to the day-to-day operations of the university is the focus of the staff in Systems, Architecture, & Infrastructure (SAI). Staff maintain systems used to deliver email, control calendars, store the contents for student personal workspaces, and provide security controls for identity and account management. SAI also collaborates with other departments in IT and within Rice to strategize future integration needs and the architecture of how information technology is delivered to recipients across the campus.
Projects include:
- Single Sign-On using Kerberos authentication with University NetID - To reduce the number of logins and passwords used to access systems at Rice
- Automated account management
- Replace the current apply process
- New staff, faculty and staff accounts are created before they arrive on campus
- Accounts are automatically disabled when people leave Rice
- Self service password reset
- New IMAP service
- Institutional standard for email addresses
- NetID and email are now separated and can be different
- Vanity email addresses for Rice
- No more mail quota issues
- Accounts created for you based on your affiliation with Rice (email, vpn, dialup, Active Directory, Posix)
- Storage and backup systems
- Enterprise class storage and backups for home directories
- Self service restoration from backups
- Directory Services
- Easier to find a person's email address directly from email clients
- Automated Organizational charts
- FIleMaker Pro Hosting Info - Discusses system requirements, costs, and client responsibilities for FileMaker.
- New Guest Account processes - Create time limited sponsored accounts for access to Rice systems
