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    As part of ongoing efforts to improve and strengthen the university’s security posture by proactively addressing out of date technologies, the campus directory website was sunsetted on Thursday, April 10, 2025.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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Microsoft Teams chat-based hub currently in pilot

Feb 13, 2018

The university is currently testing Microsoft Teams, the chat-centered collaborative workspace launched last spring in Office 365. Microsoft Teams is a cloud-based app that helps teams work together more efficiently and easily from any device and any location with an internet connection. Teams encourages members to connect with each other through conversation threads in channels (instead of email) and quick access to shared documents through tabs (instead of file folders). Users also may conduct quick virtual meetings with individuals and small groups and move from one collaboration tool to another with ease.

This is a workspace that is both interactive and highly collaborative, making it a great tool for higher education. Scott DeMers, web application administrator and developer for the Constituent Services team in the Office of Information Technology (OIT), has delved deeply into usage of the pilot to test its capabilities. “Teams has unparalleled document collaboration capabilities,” says DeMers. “Faculty, staff and students can manage all their digital assets – files, images and video – in one place and collaborate as you create them.” The integration of applications used every day allows faculty the ability to create teams to collaborate with students as well as with colleagues on interdisciplinary research projects.

Pilot testing incorporates looking at best practices for how Microsoft Teams can help make groups more productive, the best ways for pulling in content from other apps, safely connecting with third-party storage options (including Dropbox, SharePoint or Google Docs) and adding other third-party apps to the conversation with YouTube, Trello, and Twitter, to name a few. Members of the Technology Support Community (TSC) are currently testing Microsoft Teams through the end of February. 
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