August 12, 1999 10:24 a.m.
 
Hello everyone,
 
  Here are a few changes currently happening within GEMS of which all
interested parties should be made aware:
 
New Ministry: Social Development and Economic Security
 
The recent cabinet shuffle has resulted in the creation of a new ministry:
Social Development and Economic Security. This ministry is comprised of
staff who were within:
 
*   the former Ministry of Human Resources, and
 
*   the Skills Division (formerly within the Ministry of Advanced
    Education, Training and Technology).
 
Ministry of Human Resources joins Social Development and Economic Security
 
    As a result of this re-organization within government, the orgcode "MHR"
is now being re-assigned to "SDES".  You will notice this change has been
made in the GEMS directories for Exchange mailboxes.  Subsequently, over the
next few weeks all directory entries for those individuals affected,
including (the former MHR) Office Vision users, will be updated to reflect
this change.
 
Group from Ministry of Advanced Education, Training and Technology (Skills
Division) also joining Social Development and Economic Security
 
There are approximately 470 people who formerly worked with for the Ministry
of Education, Training and Technology (Skills Division) that are now also
part of the new ministry SDES.  Their company name and display name will
also be updated in their Exchange mailboxes to reflect this change on
Monday, Aug.16th.
 
Please Note:
 
  Both of the above changes do not affect distribution lists or personal
address lists within Exchange, but will affect such lists in MSMail and
cc:Mail.  For those systems, please ask your users to update their lists
when these changes are made in the directories.
 
Legal Services Society
 
Further to our previous communication, sent June 23rd, the Legal Services
Society has now completed the migration of their users from cc:Mail to their
own Exchange server. Their new addresses are in the form
First.Last@lss.bc.ca and will not be shown in GEMS. Their old addresses, in
the form First_Last@ho.lss.gov.bc.ca, will be removed from the GEMS
directory this Friday, August 13th. Please ask your users to update
nicknames to reflect the new address for Legal Services Society people.
 
If you have any questions about these announcements, please contact GEMSHelp
at 387-6777 or reply to this e-mail.
EOB1
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