Passport is one such utility that is being considered for a redesign. This program was developed internally and is used to distribute user accounts across the network. It worked well several years ago, but maintaining multiple domains with multiple administrative divisions in those domains has stretched the program to its limits. To accommodate the growth in responsibilities, the System group has more than doubled its workforce. Five years ago, there were three full-time Systems staff members.
Today there are seven full-time and fifteen student employees.
Backup Operations and PC-Systems now fall within the Systems group domain. Also, there now is a full-time employee who supports printing systems, and one that supports account administration. Regardless of the task, Systems strives toward optimizing delivery and quality of service to make the computing environment one of the most efficient and useful possible for the user community.