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Coming soon: Microsoft sensitivity labels, a new tool to help protect university data

Illustration of files, locks, and documents superimposed on a blue-tinted image of a computer keyboard.

To strengthen the protection of university information and make responsible data handling easier, UIT is preparing to roll out Microsoft 365 sensitivity labels. The new feature will help students, faculty, and staff classify and safeguard documents and emails with greater consistency and less effort.

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IT staff for Liberal Arts and Sciences tour 102 Tower

From left: Steven Jeffs, David Nelson, Josh Shupe, Joe Deviny, Tyler Chmelik, Brendan McDonnell, Eric Martinez, Shawn Laughlin, and Ben Holt.

The tour, intended as a formal welcome, provided LAS IT staff an opportunity to connect with UIT leadership and colleagues, and familiarize themselves with UIT facilities and operations.

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Utah wildfire camera network supports management efforts, U research

UEN has installed a wildfire monitoring camera as a test case at Frisco Peak.

A team at the Utah Education Network (UEN) is building a wildfire monitoring network across Utah to enhance wildfire detection, management, modeling, and safeguards through rapid response and research using live video feeds and artificial intelligence (AI).

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Microsoft SQL Server 2016 support ends on July 14

Glowing database server stack in urban skyline symbolizing cloud computing infrastructure, data warehousing, and scalable IT operations.

UIT strongly recommends taking steps now to upgrade to a SQL Server version newer than 2016 to ensure continued IT security updates, U policy compliance, and vendor support.

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IT governance roundup

Park Building.

The Architecture and New Technology Committee, Strategic Information Technology Committee, and Teaching and Learning Portfolio met in March.

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Employee Feature: From quartz to queries -- Carrie Felton finds patterns in minerals and Salesforce

Carrie Felton

Carrie Felton has “always been drawn to systems and structures and patterns.” The affinity shows up everywhere — in her day job designing Salesforce solutions, in the genealogical database she built to track the lineage of her extended family of 200, and in the geometric lattices of her rock and gem collection.

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Last Updated: 2/20/26