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We have rolled out a new process for requesting Event Support and Equipment Loans from Mendoza IT.  This new process is designed to simplify and standardize the process for these requests.   The form we have created for making these requests is located at: https://webapp.business.nd.edu/mcobit/edtech/events/eventrequest.cfm

This new process and form have already been rolled out in person to Departmental Admins and Event Coordinators.  If you have any questions or feedback on the process you may also contact Charles Barbour or Salil Verma.

Please note:

• Filling out this form DOES NOT guarantee event support or equipment availability.
• Event Requests should be filled out at least 5 business days in advance.
• Filling out this form DOES NOT reserve your room or location.
• This form should only be filled out by faculty or staff.

We have rolled out a new process for requesting Event Support and Equipment Loans from Mendoza IT.  This new process is designed to simplify and standardize the process for these requests.   The form we have created for making these requests is located at: https://webapp.business.nd.edu/mcobit/edtech/events/eventrequest.cfm.  

This new process and form have already been rolled out in person to Departmental Admins and Event Coordinators.  If you have any questions or feedback on the process you may also contact Charles Barbour or Salil Verma.

Please note:

• Filling out this form DOES NOT guarantee event support or equipment availability.
• Event Requests should be filled out at least 5 business days in advance.
• Filling out this form DOES NOT reserve your room or location.
• This form should only be filled out by faculty or staff.

http://oit.nd.edu/training/documents/discoverit.pdf

 

We are very pleased to announce that Manisha Goswami is joining the Mendoza IT Group as a research analyst. Manisha recently received her Ph.D. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from University of Florida with a concentration in financial engineering. She brings extensive research experience and skills in quantitative finance, stochastic calculus, and Monte Carlo methods.  Her research focuses on the pricing and hedging of derivatives with complex payoffs and American-style exercise.  Her recent papers have investigated the pricing and hedging performance of stochastic volatility models for American style options for which she won the best student paper award at the 2008 SIAM-SEAS conference. She has published some of her work in both Computational Management Science and Journal of Computational Finance.  She is well versed in C++, Fortran, Matlab, and R. 

Manisha's husband is a professional photographer and, after finishing some work in Florida, will be moving up to South Bend in the next few weeks.   

Manisha's office is in MCOB 370 and she can be reached at 631-9089 or mgoswam1@nd.edu. She is very quickly getting up to speed on our operating environment and databases.  Please join me in welcoming Manisha to the Mendoza IT Group and MCoB family.

Corporate Time Users, Please read all the information below carefully as new information has been added.

 

Corporate Time will be shut down at 5PM on Friday, December 19, 2008  January 7, 2009.   During this time, your Corporate Time data from August 1, 2007 and later will be migrated into your Outlook Calendar or Entourage for Mac users and will be available on January 7, 2009 using Outlook for Windows users or Entourage for Mac users.  If you need data migrated prior to August 1, 2007, please contact us so that we can provide you with instructions.

Because you will not have access to your calendar from December 19^th  January 7^th, you will need to print out a hard copy of your calendar for reference for these dates.  These instructions are found in the calendar conversion checklist under What do I need to do BEFORE 5pm on December 19^th.

 

Note:  Beginning January 5^th, you may notice entries populating into your Outlook or Entourage calendar.  Please do not use the calendar or rely on this pre-population of data until the calendar migration is complete on January 7^th.

Will all of my Corporate Time entries be migrated?

For a complete list of what will be migrated, please visit OITs website at http://oit.nd.edu/exchange/calmigration.shtml.

What do I need to do BEFORE 5pm on December 19^th? 

 

·         Follow Calendar Conversion Checklist:  Before you leave for the holiday, or before 5PM on Friday, December 19^th, make sure read and follow the calendar conversion checklist.
 Please read and follow the steps on this website BEFORE 5pm on December 19^th:  http://oit.nd.edu/exchange/calendarprep.shtml.
Note:  Follow these steps to determine who you have given access rights to in Corporate Time:  http://mcobit.business.nd.edu/kb/kb.cfm?Action=NEWQuestion&gid=725

·         Things to Avoid over the next few weeks:  OIT recommends that you avoid doing the following things to ensure a smooth conversion of your calendar information:

o   Wait to schedule meetings in 2009, especially recurring meetings.  You will be able to schedule your meetings for 2009 when the Exchange calendar is ready on Wednesday, January 7^th.

o   Wait to use the Exchange calendar until Wednesday, January 7^th.  We know its tempting to start using the new calendar now, but the smoothest transition will occur if you refrain from using your Exchange calendar until its ready on Wednesday, January 7.

o   We highly recommend you DO NOT add any new appointments to your phone calendar until the migration is complete on January 7^th.

o   DO NOT Sync your phone with your calendar after December 19^th. Please contact Mendoza IT Help Desk when you return to campus so we can schedule an appointment to get your phone connected. DO NOT Sync your phone when you return until you have spoke with Mendoza IT.

 

What do I need to do AFTER the migration on January 7^th?

 

·         Attend Training:  OIT will offer 75 training sessions during the week of January 5-9. There are four types of courses available, so please select carefully to ensure you attend training that is appropriate for you.  You only need to attend one course, if you elect to attend training.  The courses are as follows (course descriptions are provided in Endeavor). You can register online in Endeavor at http://www.hr.nd.edu/prodevelopment/Endeavor.shtml.  Note:  If you want to register from off campus, you must first connect to VPN.

o   Outlook Calendaring for General Users

o   Outlook Calendaring for Those Who Act As Designates for People

o   Entourage Calendaring (Mac users only) for General Users

o   Entourage Calendaring (Mac users only) for Those Who Act As Designates for People

·         Additional Training will be announced soon for those who are Resource Owners/Users. We will pass that along as soon as we have that information.

·         Setup Personal Designate Rights in your Outlook Calendar or Entourage for Mac Users:  If you need to allow others to access your calendar, you will need to reconfigure those access rights.   Note that this only applies to your personal calendar.  All resources will already be configured with appropriate rights.

·         Configure your SmartPhone, Blackberry, Palm devices to sync with your Outlook Calendar or Entourage for Mac users:  http://oit.nd.edu/exchange/smartphone_setup.shtml

Note:  If you are currently syncing your phone with Corporate Time using SyncML, SyncJE, or using just a Palm handheld device, please contact the Help Desk on or after January 7, 2009 so that we can help you in reconfiguring your device. DO NOT SYNC YOUR PHONE UNTIL WE HAVE RECONFIGURED IT.

Will I be able to access Corporate Time after the Migration?

On January 7^th, you will be able to get back into Corporate Time so that you can compare your old calendar with your Outlook Calendar or Entourage Calendar for Mac users.  DO NOT use Corporate Time to schedule any appointments after December 19^th.  If you schedule any appointments in Corporate Time after January7th, they will be lost when OIT turns off Corporate Time sometime in the Spring.  Beginning January 7, 2009, only use the Outlook Calendar or Entourage for Mac users.  

 

 

If you have questions or need help registering, please contact the Mendoza IT Help Desk at 1-7896.

The TAQ data through July, 2008 is now available on R drive, under R:\cb_data\TAQ\. As of January 2006, NYSE began to split the quote data into two files for most dates due to the large size of the data. With further explosive growth more recently, the quote data has been split into as many as 10 files for a given date.

This change means any access program would need to account for multiple files for a given date in order to retrieve all the data. We created 2 files to facilitate accommodating this change programmatically. One file (DATE2_nqfiles.DAT) expands the DATE2 file to include the number of quote files, for the give date, in the last column. The other file (qfiles.txt) includes a list of all quote files and their corresponding range of ticker symbols. The file has 4 variables, including trading date, file name (without extension), beginning first letter of ticker symbol, and ending first letter of ticker symbol. The file format is as follows:

            (i8, 1x, a11, 1x, a1, 1x, a1)

Both files are located under R:\cb_data\TAQ\TAQOUT\ and will be updated at future data updates. Please contact the MCoB IT Research (1-9448 or 1-9089) if you have any questions and need assistance with accessing the TAQ data.

The RiskMetrics Governance and Directors databases, made available with funding by the Hesburgh Library and Mahaffey Business Information Center (BIC),  are now accessible through WRDS. The RiskMetrics Governance database (formerly known as IRRC Takeover Defense database) provides information on takeover defense and other corporate governance provisions for more than 1,500 large U.S. firms. It also includes state takeover laws and the Gompers, Ishii and Metrick Governance Index (Gindex) in WRDS. Currently there are 8 years of data, including 1990, 1993, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2006.

 

The RiskMetics Directors database provides details on the structure and practices of the boards of directors at more than 1,500 U.S. companies. The data set includes historical information for the directors, such as the committees they belong to, board affiliation, shares held, total voting power, and other useful information. The data is available from 1996 to 2006.

 

Please contact the MCoB IT Research (1-9448 or 1-9089) if you have any questions.

Please read this entire message carefully so you are prepared for this move.

 

Per University CIO Gordon Wishon's email from Tuesday 10/28, ND is in the process of transitioning the legacy enterprise eMail and Calendaring systems to Microsoft Exchange.

 

For all Mendoza College of Business users, your eMail transition will take place between Wednesday November 5^th and Friday November 7^th.  Please keep in mind, Corporatetime Calendar WILL NOT be converted at this time.  Please continue to use Corporatetime as before.

 

Pre-Migration Phase:

 

1.      You will be receiving an Exchange Pre-Migration Message directly from OIT before the conversion.

 

2.      Please DO NOT access your eMail ON or OFF campus during the conversion time period.  For your specific conversion schedule please visit: http://mcobit.business.nd.edu/kb/kb.cfm?Action=NEWQuestion&gid=1586

 

a.       Group 1: Wednesday November 5^th 8:00pm to Thursday November 6^th  8:00am.

b.      Group 2: Thursday November 6^th 8:00pm to Friday November 7^th  8:00am.

 

3.      Major features that will continue to work and with improvements:

 

·        A new Exchange mailbox will be created for you automatically

·        Your current ND email address will continue to work.  NO incoming emails will be lost during the conversion period.

·        Outlook, Entourage, and Mac Mail will all work the way it has in the past.  Please contact MCoB IT Help Desk for further assistance if you are using any other clients.

·        A new and faster webmail at https://owa.nd.edu/  (Please DO NOT use WEBMAIL.ND.EDU after the conversion!)

·        Your default eMail quota will be increased from 500MB to 1GB.

 

4.      Things that WILL NOT work:

 

·        Any existing email forwarding needs to be reconfigured.  Please send us the following information:

o   Your NetID, ND email address, and forwarding email address.

·        Current Vacation Auto-Reply/Auto-Responses will have to be reconfigured.  Please visit http://oit.nd.edu/exchange/autoreply.shtml for instructions after the conversion is completed.

·        Any existing eMail filters have to be re-created after the conversion is completed.

·        Thunderbird eMail users, please visit http://oit.nd.edu/exchange/tbird_imap.shtml for instructions on how to reconfigure your email client after the conversion is completed.

 

Post-Migration Phase:

 

·        You will be receiving an Exchange Post-Migration Message directly from OIT after your conversion is completed.

·        Please Re-Start your computer after the conversion is completed.

·        Log in to the new Exchange Webmail at: https://owa.nd.edu/ and test your email.

·        Please DO NOT use WEBMAIL.ND.EDU after the conversion!

·        When you launch Outlook for the 1st time after the conversion, it may take a little longer to display your email messages depending on the size of your mail boxes.

·         For any other questions, please contact Mendoza IT help desk at 631-7896 or eMail cobahelp@nd.edu.

·         Mendoza IT and University OIT will be here to assist you throughout the entire process.

·        Please visit: http://oit.nd.edu/exchange/ for more information.

SAS license on your computer may expire at the end of September 2008. You can launch SAS and check whether your license is going to expire. If you see the warning messages about license expiration in the SAS log session, please refer to the instructions at the link below to renew your license. Otherwise, the new license has already been installed with SAS on your computer.

http://mcobit.business.nd.edu/research/software/SASLicenseRenewal_2009.cfm

Please contact the MCOB IT Research (1-9448) with any questions.