HEPiX Spring 2021 online Workshop

Building up and migrating to a FOSS-focused e-mail service at CERN

15 Mar 2021, 18:35

25m

Online workshop

End-User IT Services & Operating Systems End-User IT Services & Operating Systems

Speaker

Vincent Brillault (CERN)

Description

This talk is an update on CERN's project to build up a new e-mail service at CERN, focused on Free and Open Source Software, and to migrate all of its users. As presented in HEPiX Autumn 2019, CERN has been working on migrating out of Microsoft Exchange since Spring 2018. However in early Spring 2020, in the middle of the migration to its first pilot, CERN had to stop and redesign a new solution. After shortly explaining the reasons of this change, this talk will focus on the design of the newly adopted solution, presenting the new architecture and implementation in detail. Then the migration process, from both the previous pilot and production services, will be discussed. This talk will conclude on some early results, both in term of infrastructure and usability.

Presentation materials

Building up and migrating to a FOSS-focused e-mail service at CERN.pdf

Recording

Slides (codimd)