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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    As part of ongoing efforts to improve and strengthen the university’s security posture by proactively addressing out of date technologies, the campus directory website was sunsetted on Thursday, April 10, 2025.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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Sign Up for Emergency Technology Alerts on Statuspage

Mimi Cohen Dell Sep 20, 2022

New software for emergency technology outage alerts

Visit cu-anschutz-denver-oit.statuspage.io to subscribe!

In August, OIT rolled out a new software for emergency technology outages. OIT Statuspage is an email and phone messaging system to alert students, staff, and faculty of any system outages. When you sign up, be sure to click both the envelope tab for email notifications and the phone icon tab for text messages. Statuspage allows you to customize your notification options so when you subscribe you can choose what messages and notifications you receive so that you are only contacted with information relevant to you.

To sign up:

  • Go to OIT Statuspage (cu-anschutz-denver-oit.statuspage.io), click Subscribe to Updates and select the email and phone icons, then enter your information.
    • Subscribe to individual services (called components), depending on your needs and campus affiliation.
    • Not sure what some of the services mean to you? Click the question mark after the name of the service for a brief description.
    • Email notifications will be sent when OIT creates, updates, and resolves an incident.
    • Text messages are only sent to notify subscribers that there is an incident and a second text when the incident is resolved (only 2 texts).
  • View updates directly from the OIT Statuspage including information about past performance by clicking the Incident History link located at the bottom of the page; you can even filter your preferred services (components) such as potential outage information about Canvas, as an example.
  • The new Statuspage is also an embedded link in the System Status section on the OIT webpage;  click on the text next to the system status battery and you will be routed to the OIT Statuspage.

As a reminder, underneath the System Status battery, there is a Planned System Alerts button to access information about planned maintenance work. This section is updated following the bi-weekly change advisory board meetings, giving you advance notice of any potential interruption of service that may affect your work. OIT also provides updates for service alerts, special initiatives, and helpful technology insights via our Twitter alerts at twitter.com/CUAnschutzOIT and twitter.com/CUDenverOIT. Follow us!


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