That video game console you covet is out of stock everywhere, the grocery shelf normally packed with canned cat food is bare, and the cost of that bike light in your Amazon shopping cart shot up overnight. Supply chain woes … Read more
Over the next several months, ITS will replace aging hardware that stores data for more than 70 departments on campus and serves as a backup destination for the bulk of ITS data. For this project, ITS will need to move … Read more
Carolina is marking two decades of requiring undergraduates to have laptops. Since UNC-Chapel Hill instituted that requirement in 2000, ITS’ Carolina Computing Initiative (CCI) has been helping students access laptops that meet University standards. The CCI program launched three years … Read more
ITS Identity Management is releasing an updated version of its Improvadmin platform in mid-January, which includes migrating the code to a modern Java stack. Improvadmin is an interface used by the ITS Service Desk, Information Security Office and Identity Management … Read more
Educational Technologies will upgrade the Sakai learning management system to version 20 on December 3. This is after final grades are due to avoid disrupting classes for the Fall semester, given the system will be offline as the upgrade is applied. The … Read more
Last spring, ITS Identity Management (IdM) started an effort to provision and deprovision University systems within midPoint. Now, the team is extending the use of midPoint to tackle three new projects. The projects include the deprovisioning of Microsoft OneDrive and … Read more
After more than two decades, the ITS Software Acquisition group has changed its name to Software Distribution. Software Distribution Manager Greg Neville has been with the group for 20 years. Kimberly Middleton, Site License Coordinator for Software Distribution, has been … Read more
Following the UNC System directive to suspend in-person, non-essential services to help stop the spread of COVID-19, the Computer Repair Center is closed and unable to perform any hardware repairs. Protecting the health, safety and well-being of our campus community … Read more
ITS Infrastructure & Operations implemented a new approach to monitor data access speeds for its clients by using Raspberry Pi single-board computers. Infrastructure & Operations’ new approach is to run scripts on Raspberry Pi computers. These scripts keep track of … Read more
The newest addition to the Alert Carolina Emergency Notification System is now available for desktop and laptop Windows and Mac OS computers on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. Alert Carolina is now offering the Alertus Desktop Notification client to campus as … Read more
The Carolina Computing Initiative (CCI) program found that an overwhelming majority of respondents were satisfied — either “extremely” or “somewhat” — with the selection and quality of offered computer models, the software pre-load and the CCI program overall. CCI, a … Read more
ITS Communication Technologies has begun upgrading the University’s networking core to provide better redundancy, more flexibility and much higher bandwidth. ITS selected Cisco System as the vendor for the upgraded core routers in May, and started the upgrade in July. … Read more
