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Project Update December 2011

December 14, 2011

…of using ConnectCarolina’s Campus Solutions as its student services administrative system. There has been continued improvement to Campus Solutions, with the following functionality added in the past year: Grading Advisor Center Tar Heel Tracker (degree audit) GPA Calculator Course Request Approval system Online ordering of transcripts Academic early warning Class Roster with Pictures report Summer School Admissions Interfaces for the Common Appl…

Duo Universal Prompt Readiness Project

December 22, 2023

…e changes will vary based on the application. Impacted applications include: Duo Registration/ Device Registration/Onyen Sign up (onyen.unc.edu) Virtual Private Network (VPN) ConnectCarolina (Human Resources and Student Administration) Self-Service (selfservice.unc.edu) Citrix What’s Next: Over the next several months, additional project website updates and emails will provide more information and details….

Operational Excellence Reserve Capacity Phase

August 30, 2022

…pecific types of students. For example, there may be reserved seats for first-year students, transfer students, or seniors who need the class to complete their major field of study. Individual departments determine reserved seats, and to date, students haven’t been able to see details on those reserves. During the registration period for Spring 2023 classes, students will see the number of open and reserved seats available for a class before they…

Securing sensitive, University-owned information on Secure NAS

May 27, 2014

…cords, as defined by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) Customer record information, as defined by the Gramm Leach Bliley Act (GLBA) Confidential personnel information, as defined by the State Personnel Act Information that is deemed to be confidential in accordance with the North Carolina Public Records Act Note: SecNAS should NOT be used to store merchant-related payment card information, as defined by the Payment Card Industr…

Secure Research Space (SRW)

October 24, 2022

…ill be cloud-based, focusing on out-of-the-box solutions that meet current customer requirements while being flexible and scalable to accommodate future research and compliance needs. How does this impact our UNC community? Faculty, Staff, Student Researchers UNC Researchers will have access to new, secure, and compliant environments to conduct research and collaborate both within the UNC community and with external researchers. When is this happe…

Atlassian Cloud Migration (Confluence and Jira)

April 14, 2023

…e doing it? Atlassian the company that makes Confluence and Jira is ending support for their on-premises service. As of February 2024, they will no longer offer technical support, security updates, or bug fixes for critical vulnerabilities. Switching to Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AAD) will enable people to still login into our Confluence/Jira Products even if there’s a problem with our campus services. How does it impact our UNC Community?…

Carolina Key Passwordless Login

September 14, 2021

…mpaign to encourage adoption this summer and the beginning of the fall semester. Milestones Phase 3 – Released to employees. ITS launched Carolina Key for ITS employees in early 2023. ITS enabled faculty and staff to register for Carolina Key. Completed April 2023. Phase 2 – Incorporated feedback from the pilot and enabled students (including employees who are students) to register for Carolina Key. Completed November 2022. Phase 1 – Conducted a s…

Service Account Migration

December 6, 2023

…e support for the legacy Kerberos system is fading, and it’s becoming difficult to maintain. By switching to AD, we can ensure a more sustainable and efficient management of user credentials. How does this impact our UNC community? This change should be transparent to most faculty, staff and students. Service account owners, of about 200 applications, will have to make configuration changes and password updates to their accounts to move to AD. Whe…

UNC Guest Network Remediation

May 2, 2024

…ts of the University. How does this impact our UNC community? UNC faculty, staff and students currently using the UNC Guest Networks will lose the ability to access University applications. They will be able to access these applications by connecting to Eduroam or the UNC PSK Network. When is this happening? The change is expected post-Spring 2024, after traffic patterns match expected network use and user support cases are resolved. Where can I f…

Remedy Decommissioning

September 23, 2021

…edy applications to other supported ServiceNow applications or application platforms. This project needs to be completed by mid-October at the latest to prevent renewal of the Unix Support contract for another year….

Password Reset Using Duo 2-Step Verification

September 24, 2021

…security model is no longer considered safe enough by the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), the NIH (National Institutes of Health), REFEDS (the Research and Education FEDerations group), and the University’s own Information Security Office. Current guidance says that resetting a credential needs to require strong proof of identity, such as two-factor authentication or confirmation that the person resetting the password has pr…

F5 Recommendations

September 27, 2021

…lled by the customer. January 2022 Load balancing is the process of distributing tasks across network resources, with the aim of making their overall processing more efficient. UNC-Chapel Hill uses load balancing technology provided by F5, Inc. The University’s current F5 infrastructure has a storage resource constraint that makes patching challenging, and it is running at capacity, which limits our ability to take on new F5 projects. This project…