We hope to make this a fully reliable service on a supported machine sometime soon. Even though like this page it's only a work in progress, we'd enjoy hearing what you think could be added to make your jobs easier. In addition to traditional places like Microsoft Technet and their security pages , or Novell's support site, there are local networked copies of these two knowledge bases available to you as a sysadmin. If you need help with creating a new web site, finding a place to host it or someone to construct it for you, the ACS Instructional Web Development Center at iwdc.ucsd.edu x23315 can provide help. The provide both course web support as well as recharge web hosting for departmetns and affiliated projects.
Electronic mail is often something that the department sysadmin needs to deal with.
And there is a concept of having a campus wide unique identity. Larger departments do some of the work by doing the mailupd work themselves. There are several parts of making a remote user appear to be part of the campus network while they are on the road or at home. These range from creating or updating the network password that relates to their campus email address. There are many aspects of Academic Computing Services that may be of help to you.