This website provides news and updates about the Workspace Migration project where we will go from using a Microsoft environment provided by the University of Leeds (@leeds.ac.uk) and our own Google workspace (@luu.org.uk) to a Microsoft environment dedicated to LUU (@luu.ac.uk) run with help by an IT provider called Littlefish.
Our current IT setup, with responsibilities split between the university and our internal Digital Services team, and with two workspaces - university Microsoft and LUU Google - is not effective for resilience and sustainable IT operations.
We do not have a stable base to develop for the future and there are numerous operational risk and user experience, cybersecurity and efficiency challenges in our current setup.
After scoping staff questions in 2023 - remember the Coffee & Cakes sessions? See Staff Feedback - we tendered for support in 2024 - choosing Littlefish - and were successful in receiving funding from the university to make the switch in 2024/25.
After establishing some of the preparation work at the end of 2024, the project will begin at the start of March 2025.