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    As part of ongoing efforts to improve and strengthen the university’s security posture by proactively addressing out of date technologies, the campus directory website was sunsetted on Thursday, April 10, 2025.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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Goodbye, SharePoint. Hello, Sitefinity!

Feb 13, 2018

The transition to Sitefinity as our new website content management system (CMS) continues to move forward in 2018. Three sites have been launched since Sitefinity went live last year – Office of Information Technology (OIT), University Communications and @Web (the university’s CMS resource site designed to help new users learn and migrate to Sitefinity). Each school, college, department and business unit will move to the new CMS during transition phases scheduled over the next two years.

There are 17 campus units involved in the current phase of the CMS transition. Web managers can start preparing for the move to Sitefinity by studying the training information at the @Web learning site. This learning site, launched in December, offers new users step-by-step instructions for how to use Sitefinity to build pages and add content using widgets. The site will continue to be enhanced as additional information and new features become available. 

To prepare for your website transition:

  • Request to transition your site to Sitefinity.
  • Request a content inventory spreadsheet to review each of your pages and data about traffic on those pages (email request to: websitehelp@ucdenver.edu).
  • Identify your site goals and target audiences.
  • Start organizing, cleaning up your content and meeting with your subject matter experts – it’s what ends up taking the longest in the CMS transition process.
    • Once your unit is in transition, GatherContent (a tool for collaborative content creation and workflow) will be made available at no cost to help organize your work as you gather content and run it through subject matter expert approvals.

Involve all stakeholders in this initial content inventory and planning process and be open to feedback both internally and externally to help improve usability on your new site.

The CMS transition team, made up of staff from the Office of Information Technology and University Communications, looks forward to working with each school and department as we move from SharePoint to Sitefinity throughout the entire university. Until it comes time for the CMS transition team to start working with you, keep up to date with the latest news on @Web.

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