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Webmasters explore content management systems

The next Webmasters meeting will feature presentations on the content management systems Joomla, Wordpress and Drupal. The meeting will be held on Thursday, Aug. 7, at 2 p.m. in ITS Manning 2400.

Jonathan Pletzke, an experienced technical leader, project manager and author, will present on Joomla and Wordpress. Judy Hallman, a retired campus webmaster and former Tier 2 analyst in the ITS Response Center, will focus on Drupal.
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"Toy Stories" topic for August IAIG meeting

The topic of the August Instructional Applications Interest Group (IAIG) meeting is “Toy Stories.” If you have a piece of technology you can’t live without or a device that makes work life easier, bring your “toy” to room 328, Health Sciences Library on Thursday, Aug. 7 at 11:30 a.m. Share your experiences and recommendations!
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ResNET ahead of the game

Three ITS employees recently attended the 15^th annual Residential Networking (ResNet) Symposium at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Chris Williams, ResNET program director, Jeremy Buenviaje, ResNET assistant program director and Paul Kamen, ResNET web applications developer, spent three days networking with their counterparts who represented over 100 colleges and universities from throughout the United States and Canada.
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Oracle calendar upgrade to take place this weekend

The UNC Oracle calendar upgrade has been rescheduled for this weekend. Access to the calendar will be unavailable beginning today at 5 p.m. until the evening of Sunday, July 27. During this time, all access to the calendar server via Oracle desktop client, Microsoft Outlook connector, Web interface, smartphones and PDA’s via SyncML or desktop conduit will be unavailable.

The UNC campus calendar server (also known as schedule.unc.edu, webcal.unc.edu, calendar.unc.edu, and syncml.unc.edu) will be upgraded during this period to maintain support from the vendor, Oracle.

To ensure that they have any calendar data needed during the upgrade, users should print their events from the calendar, save an off-line copy of their agenda or synch their PDA with the calendar prior to 5 p.m. today.
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ITS on the move!

ITS is growing - and on the move! Due to the temporary demand for additional space resulting from the ERP student system implementation, several location changes are underway.

Moves that will alleviate the current shortfall are as follows:

• On July 25, Desktop Infrastructure, Infrastructure Management and Enterprise Storage Management will move from ITS Manning to ITS Franklin.
• Also on July 25, the Carolina Computing Initiative (CCI) staff currently at ITS Franklin will join their colleagues already at ITS Manning.
• The Learning Space Design group has relocated from ITS Manning to the Porthole building.
• The Identity Management group has moved from ITS Franklin to ITS Manning.
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