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  • New Integrated Microsoft 365 Directory

    Apr 15, 2025
    As part of ongoing efforts to improve and strengthen the university’s security posture by proactively addressing out of date technologies, the campus directory website was sunsetted on Thursday, April 10, 2025. For a new directory tool, our IdM modernization and improvement project has updated individual name search functionality within the university's Microsoft 365 suite. This offers a better user experience, more reliable data, and more appropriately meets IT security and compliance Standards. It is immediately available for directory use to university faculty, staff, students and researchers.
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  • North Classroom Data Center Testing

    Jul 26, 2023
    OIT, in collaboration with the IT Leaders of our schools and colleges, will be simulating a data center outage to test, verify and remediate our planned failover capabilities. Planned failover testing of the North Classroom Data Center is on Sunday, July 30th. This is an estimated 8-hour testing window from 7:00 am to 3:00 pm to evaluate system backup processes and remediate any issues that present. To test these processes, we will be simulating a network outage, but no power or devices will actually be turned off.
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Microsoft Trainings

Sep 20, 2022

OIT has partnered with Microsoft to offer Monday Lunch and Learn virtual trainings. These webinars are free to attend for all current students, staff, and faculty. Trainings launched on September 19th and will be running through November 14th, 2022. These free webinars are intended to provide both introductory and advanced training on Microsoft Office applications including OneDrive, Teams, and Forms.

These webinars will help individuals understand how to fully utilize Microsoft Office applications for diverse team environments. The trainings are developed and hosted by Microsoft educators who are the most knowledgeable about what these applications are capable of. Attending a live webinar allows for the opportunity to ask the experts your questions and get best practices for using these programs at the university.

To attend a webinar, please register beforehand. If you are unable to attend a live session, the webinars will be recorded and made available on the OIT website afterward.

If you are encountering a difficulty while trying to register on your phone, please use a computer to sign up.

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