ITS attracted about 150 UNC-Chapel Hill retirees to a Office 365 migration clinic organized specifically to provide that University population with individualized assistance with setting up their multiple devices for Office 365. Retirees packed the set-up clinic On May 24, … Read more

With the bulk of the Office 365 migrations complete, four of the original eight-member Field Team moved over on June 19 to assist the Service Desk with Fall Rush support. Alexandra Tocchi, Brian Reilly, Rajita Maharjan and Timothy Shelley will … Read more

On Wednesday, March 29, the ITS ConnectCarolina Student Administration team worked with the Admissions Office to release more than 18,000 decisions for first-year applicants. This was an overall increase in first-year applications of nearly 14 percent, so the competition was … Read more

In the fifth post of a Getting to Know series about ITS Middleware Services, the Middleware team shares statistics that enlighten us about the use of Splunk at UNC-Chapel Hill. The group also outlines the ways that it is expanding … Read more

In this Q&A, ITS Middleware Services Manager Patrick Casey talks about Splunk–what it is, why ITS uses it and where UNC-Chapel Hill is headed in its use of the system. This Q&A is the fourth post in a Getting to … Read more

In this third post within our Getting to Know series about ITS Middleware Services, learn about important changes to Middleware’s Carolina CloudApps platform. The series launched with Middleware Services Manager Patrick Casey, in a Q&A, explaining what Middleware is, why … Read more

In the second post of a Getting to Know series about ITS Middleware Services, the Middleware team highlights eight of the group’s key service offerings, in the chart below. The series launched with Middleware Services Manager Patrick Casey, in a … Read more

In this Q&A, ITS Middleware Services Manager Patrick Casey explains what Middleware is, why the team has been growing and what the group is working on. This Q&A is the first of five posts in a Getting to Know series … Read more

If something’s weird and it doesn’t look good, who are you going to call? Well, if it’s IT weird, hopefully, you’re going to call 919-962-HELP. That’s true around the clock and around the calendar at UNC-Chapel Hill, including Christmas week. … Read more

On Thursday, October 27, Verizon Business will conduct maintenance on the University’s phone system, specifically to the two trunks that route traffic to and from all VoIP (Voice-over-Internet Protocol) phones on campus. The scheduled maintenance will occur sometime between 12:01 … Read more

What happens when two UNC universities with shared resources decide to both implement eduroam–and confuse your wireless configuration while they’re at it? In this case, staff of UNC-Chapel Hill Information Technology Services and at UNC-Asheville worked together to implement a … Read more

UNC-Chapel Hill Information Technology Services has continued its journey into server and storage virtualization with a next-generation virtualization infrastructure. ITS accomplished this by: 1. Realigning staff to better support the work load 2. Adopting automation strategies to create efficiencies 3. … Read more