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    As part of ongoing efforts to improve and strengthen the university’s security posture by proactively addressing out of date technologies, the campus directory website was sunsetted on Thursday, April 10, 2025.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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Multi-factor authentication and virtual desktops

Jul 31, 2019
The CU Secure project team is working on the next phase of multi-factor authentication (MFA), focused on improving security on our virtual desktop (VDI) system. MFA was implemented earlier this year with the new campus GlobalProtect VPN service to better manage the security of both personal information and university systems and data. 

In the fall, OIT will employ MFA in conjunction with VMWare Horizon, the software that operates our virtual desktop service. There will be no changes to the university virtual desktop client and MFA will not be needed if you are using VDI on campus. However, if you are working off-campus, the new process will prompt you to authenticate with our MFA application Duo before accessing your virtual desktop. 

Preparing for this change when using VDI is simple – if you’ve performed these steps for VPN MFA, you’re already done! You need to:
1. Install the Duo app on your preferred device (we highly recommend doing this on your smartphone). 
2. Register for Duo from your laptop or desktop computer.

Visit our CU Secure special project page for more information about multi-factor authentication and better security for our critical systems at the university. For additional assistance with the new processes, you can access the printable pdf instructions for MFA or watch this short video about Duo created by CU Productions. 
 
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