Page 1350 - Week 04 - Thursday, 8 May 2014
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The vast majority of desktops have been migrated from XP to Windows 7, with over a thousand business applications tested successfully with the current Standard Operating Environment.
The following directorates have a small portion of their desktop fleet running Windows XP:
• Community Services Directorate - HomeNet
• Health Directorate – The key systems within Health is the Winscribe application and Orthoview where a number of PC’s have a dependency on these applications, both of these have projects underway to migrate to Windows 7 compliant versions. A small number of other applications have implication for less than 10 users each.
• Commerce and Works Directorate – MYOB HR21 (Rators) and Atlas PDF Reports.
• Justice and Community Safety Directorate – Joist, Promadis, Traffic Camera Office (TCO) and a small number of peripheral devices that have a dependency on Windows XP operating system. All of these with the exception of TCO have been transitioned to Win7 or action plans are in place for transition or alternate support.
• Territory and Municipal Services Directorate – Navision; Linenweb.
• Environment and Sustainable Development Directorate – epalm which is used to publish documents for the processing of lease conveyancing enquiries; one PC connected to an OCE scanner (for building plans and related documents); and the document store for the Mitchell office.
• Canberra Institute of Technology – no remaining application incompatibilities.
2) When exactly will updates take place on the areas still using XP and to what systems?
Shared Services ICT is continuing to work with directorates to upgrade from XP to Windows 7. Upgrade timeframes are driven by the time required to upgrade or replace the application systems that are not compatible with the Windows 7 platform, listed in answer (1) above.
The ACT Government has an extended support arrangement in place with Microsoft to ensure that we will continue to receive security patches for Windows XP, thereby mitigating the security risks arising due to the general availability of support for Windows XP having ceased.
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