Identity Management Maintenance

May 20-23rd, 2025

As part of ongoing efforts to improve user experience and enhance IT security, the Identity Management team will be migrating a key system to the cloud from May 20 to 23. There is no impact expected for existing university users, though new student and employee accounts assigned during this time will be created after this maintenance window. ISS and OIT are working with multiple departments and vendors campuswide to implement this migration quickly and effectively. Please contact the OIT Service Desk at 303-724-4357 if you encounter any issues.

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  • Microsoft Teams Calling Project

    Apr 24, 2025
    The campus is transitioning from the current phone system (Cisco) to Microsoft Teams Calling. The cloud-based Microsoft Teams Calling will streamline communication for you, allowing you to make and receive calls directly within the Teams app from your computer, a mobile device, or a physical phone handset. This means you can stay connected and take important calls whether you're at your desk, hybrid or on the go.  OIT is excited to implement this change to meet the new business goals and needs of our evolving campus. Microsoft Teams Calling offers multiple communication modalities while passing on lower operating costs to the end user. Our team will be working with each department to discover your unique needs prior to any migration. We have split 180 departments and units into several groups, starting with a volunteer pilot group for rigorous testing prior to transitioning other departments or units. This phased approach allows OIT to work directly with each group and learn about each department and unit’s needs to ensure you are getting the best service.
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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    As part of ongoing efforts to improve and strengthen the university’s security posture by proactively addressing out of date technologies, the campus directory website was sunsetted on Thursday, April 10, 2025.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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New Web Search Tool is Live!

Jan 20, 2022

The OIT Web Services and Web Development & Operations teams are excited to announce the successful implementation of a new enterprise-level web search solution that was released on January 14, 2022. The new tool delivers features that improve the university website experience for all staff, faculty, and students. 

This solution, utilizing Azure Cognitive Search, provides an improved back-end and front-end site search experience for web site visitors. In this first iteration, Sitefinity content is indexed to present search results in a relevant, intuitive manner. Following is an overview of what the experience will look like for those looking for content on university webpages as well as changes to the back-end for school and department web professionals.  

Overview of what the front-end / user-experience will be:

  • There will be no major user experience (UX) or user interface (UI) changes.
  • Visitors to department, college, and school webpages will:  
    • Search by clicking on the search icon and typing in their search term.  
    • After pressing enter, they will be sent to a page that lists all of the relevant search results.  By default, the search results will be rendered at a global level (across all indexed domains) and will be shown by relevance. 
    • Be able to narrow down their search results using filters (sidebar on desktop, top bar on mobile web). 

Overview of changes to the back-end for school and department web professionals:

  • New and improved search algorithm to better yield relevant search results.
  • Built on Azure Cognitive Search, replacing former solution, SearchBlox.
  • New technology will allow for flexibility and customizations in future iterations and development efforts.
  • Priority features for inclusion in next iterations:
    • Content indexed will include not only Sitefinity pages, but also documents.
    • Indexing of external domains, relevant domains, such as clas.ucdenver.edu, business.ucdenver.edu, online.cu.edu, and cu.edu.  

This is a project that has been underway for several months, so we are so thrilled to see it coming to fruition. We hope faculty, staff, and students are as excited about this new solution as we are! 

To learn more about our work, report a bug, or provide feedback, please submit a ticket to us via our @web site or send us an email.

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