Project Portfolio

This project will create a new user interface for managing email addresses and aliases. This interface will let campus users choose which UNC-based email address they want as their primary. When a person creates an email address or alias, the interface will prevent them from duplicating an existing Onyen-based email address or previously-claimed alias. This change is a step towards having a single authoritative source for all email tenants and remediates the persistent confusion among users and aliases.  The project is also necessary for an initiative that will improve synching of directory information between UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC Healthcare.

MidPoint will be used as a back-end registry for email accounts and aliases.

• Phase 1 includes a midPoint connector to Office 365/Azure to collect information on existing email accounts and aliases for the unc.edu tenant.
• Future phases will address other tenants such as Kenan Flagler, Computer Science, etc.

The project’s purpose is to determine the policy for deprovisioning WebAuthn registrations when people lose affiliation with the University, and then implement a technical solution to perform deprovisioning according to that policy. The policy will also identify how often WebAuthn registrations will expire.  Project implementation will allow the Carolina Key project to roll out to the entirety of campus. If we do not complete this project, Carolina Key will remain in a pilot phase, and there will need to be manual deprovisioning of pilot participants. The project team will present an initial requirements document at a kick-off meeting scheduled in early May 2022

WebAuthn is a web-based API that allows websites to update their login pages to add FIDO-based authentication on supported browsers and platforms, and midPoint is a software system used by the University to connect systems that hold digital records like ConnectCarolina and the University Directory. MidPoint uses triggers to remind the systems to update user information and access. Provisioning and deprovisioning are processes for creating, updating and deleting user accounts in multiple applications and systems

Enterprise Applications began an initiative in January 2022 to solicit feedback from campus users, central offices, Access Request Coordinators (ARCs), and others to understand the pain points experienced in the current Access Request Process and Tool. Analysis of the feedback informed our next steps to focus on two major areas of effort during 2022 and 2023:

1) Short-term adjustments to current environment – There are several items that will provide some immediate benefit for the current solution. We are in the process of solidifying a plan for this effort.
2) Long-term holistic re-engineering – We identified several significant improvements that would best be served by a system rewrite. Included in this effort would be significant automation and use of known data elements that are not presently leveraged.

Replace the existing campus wireless services contracts (Neutral Hosting) with a new set of wireless provider (Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T) service contracts and implement new campus 5G services.  We expect to support a seamless transition away from the current service contract after we establish the contracts and new funding model.  The project includes new 5G services, and new positions (people and roles) to manage the services on campus so we can provide reliable outdoor and indoor cellular coverage and capacity across the UNC-Chapel Hill campus.