California is still migrating all agencies and departments to a single email and business tool system. So far, 56 of 88 state entities have been migrated to Outlook 365.
“To date, 162,701 out of 198,401 mailboxes have been migrated to Office 365," Bryce Brown, spokesman for the California Department of Technology (CDT), wrote in an email to Techwire. The department will be managing the licensing and renewals for email instead of individual departments being responsible for them.
The migration is to be complete by the end of 2017, with about 90 percent hosted on Microsoft’s government cloud. The previous on-premise system, CA.Mail, will go offline Dec. 31, while the off-premise California Email Service (CES) contract expires this month.
CES users have been provided free Microsoft support and transition, while CA.Mail users have brought outside assistance.
Multiple access methods, including mobile, will ease use along with 24-hour support and redundant data center offerings. The new system has multi-layer anti-virus and spam filtering.
“The state and Department of Technology is committed to working with government to define some enterprise standards for technology, and this is one of the first ones out of the gate," CDT chief deputy director Chris Cruz told Techwire in February. "We have a common framework now for how we manage, maintain and secure email."
