The group will be coordinating the campus efforts in evaluating and correcting, whenever possible, Y2K problems. The most important thing for all individuals to do to prepare for the year 2000 date change is to evaluate those critical operations in their area of responsibility and make sure that any potential Y2K problems be evaluated, corrected, and tested well in advance of the last day of 1999. To do this evaluation, it is important that everyone is aware of the issues and corrective measures for Y2K problems. Y2K issues involve many dimensions of the campus from central facilities to the individual desktop. Physical Facilities Facilities Management has been charged with assessing any embedded controls within mission critical systems, which are not Y2K compatible.
Many offices utilize a variety of office equipment.
Generally, HP fax machines are compliant, however some other brands may not be compliant. All leased Canon copying machines are compliant, however, purchased machines should be investigated on an individual basis. Time Clocks Return to Table of Contents Computer Hardware and Software Technology Services began the evaluation of central mission critical hardware and software in 1996 and has been steadily working toward compliance. The following productivity software, including word processors, spreadsheets, and database management systems has been determined to be fully compliant when the underlying hardware and operating systems have also been determined to be compliant. All productivity software outside of this list is considered to be obsolete and should be replaced because their compliance is questionable.