When can go-live happen

Due to the nature of go-live and the resources required, we cannot field requests for migration until approximately 2 weeks after CMS version 1.1 is launched.

You may submit your request to go live through the ITS Help Desk at any time, but please understand that it will not be completed until some time beginning approximately 2 weeks after CMS version 1.1 launch.

Request - what to include

When submitting your request, you must include

• site's current URL
• URL for the live site (e.g. www.ndsu.edu/its)
• an indication of whether we can migrate the site during business hours. Due to the coordination required between multiple working groups, a slight outage can occur when migration occurs
  • during business hours there is a potential for up to 15 minutes of time when the site will be unavailable
  • during a standard outage period (Thursdays 5-7AM or Sundays 8-12AM) there is a potential for the site to be unavailable for anywhere from 15 minutes up to several hours. There is also a minimum lead time of 3 business days to schedule outages so your request would need to be submitted sufficiently in advance to schedule the outage
• The preferred time window/date for migration (if applicable). Note that we cannot guarantee this date but will make our best efforts to coordinate the migration during the time window of your choice. If you care strongly that it occur at a specific time, please provide instruction on what action we should take (or not take) if a situation occurs that prevents us from migrating at your chosen time--for example, should we abort and re-schedule or may we continue with migration once the situation is resolved?

After go-live

After your site is live under www.ndsu.edu, changes include

• The login URL for authoring content will be the "workspaces" login as indicated for "All www.ndsu.edu sites"
• The fileadmin path that previously included your site's virtual host name will not change yet. As we are able we will try to coordinate the shortening from site.ndsu.edu to just "site." It will require changing any links to files or inserted images in your content, which is why we won't make this change during the initial go live
• A redirect is installed so that people who visit your site at site.ndsu.edu will be automatically redirected to www.ndsu.edu/site
  • You should update any Web references to the old URL and should not print it in any publications. Instead you should use the new www.ndsu.edu/site
  • The redirect will be available for approximately 1 year. After the expiration, the entire domain site.ndsu.edu will be removed and visitors will see a "Server not found" error if they attempt to connect to your site using the site.ndsu.edu address
• The selectable templates and other www.ndsu.edu only features are available