Infrastructure Shared Services (servers) provides storage, backups, messaging and collaboration, and directory services for colleges and departments on the Coral Gables Campus. The Shared Services group provides storage and backups for servers managed by IT as well as other departments. Shared Services provides email services to students and employees (Coral Gables) as well as IM/video (MSLync) services. It also offers Directory Services used for the management of resource, such as servers, workstations, users and applications authentication/authorization.