The University’s eduroam wireless connection should reach a milestone this week. A month ago UNC-Secure users outnumbered eduroam users two to one. As of last week, it was a 50-50 split, even as the overall number of wireless users jumped … Read more
Want to keep up throughout the day with issues, happenings and news related to and of interest to UNC-Chapel Hill Information Technology Services? Twitter is a good place for that, and a good source for that information are the Twitter … Read more
UNC-Chapel Hill Information Technology Services has named the department’s recipients of the 2015 Star Heels Awards. Administered by Benefits Services in the Office of Human Resources, the Star Heels Award Program recognizes and rewards excellent employees. Award recipients receive a … Read more
The beta enrollment model for eduroam migrates to the production enrollment model for the entire campus on Monday, August 3, starting at 5:30 p.m. and finishing by 8 p.m., at the latest. Following this migration, you will configure a system … Read more
On Friday, July 31, at 5:30 p.m., ITS Communication Technologies will conduct a service-continuity test. The purpose of this test is to ensure appropriate redundancy measures are in place for critical campus IT architecture. The importance of continuity testing ITS … Read more
ITS Communication Technologies changed another 961 phone lines to the Voice-over-Internet Protocol system on Friday, July 24. That brings the number of phone lines converted over from the legacy AT&T Centrex phone system to 17,000-plus of the 20,000 in the … Read more
Do you feel confident and comfortable with the system you’re using to manage your work and personal passwords? That assumes you even have a system. With data breaches in the news practically every day, using a password management system is … Read more
With support from the University’s Division of Finance and Administration and through major orchestration, precision and collaboration, Information Technology Services moved 155 F&A servers from across campus into ITS data centers, enabling the closure of seven F&A data centers. The … Read more
Change is always difficult, and the consolidation last fall of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Finance, Human Resources and Payroll functions with the existing Student Administration system in ConnectCarolina was one of the biggest technology changes the University has ever experienced. Help Desk … Read more
The Teaching & Learning group within Information Technology Services continues to make Sakai, the University’s open-source collaboration and learning-management system, more valuable to the campus community. Sakai is one of the most-used ITS services on campus, and more users are … Read more
While still a work in progress, ConnectCarolina continues to improve steadily. In May, the ConnectCarolina team, a collaborative group made up of ITS staff members and representatives from UNC-Chapel Hill’s Finance & Administration department, announced the newest updates made to … Read more
ITS has created a simpler, more secure process for University system administrators to request free SSL certificates. Starting June 30, campus system administrators can use a self-service site to request their SSL (Secure Socket Layer) certificates for establishing an encrypted … Read more
