Scott Lloyd manages the Campus Help Desk and Operators team in the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) organization. The busy 12-person desk – five full-time staff and seven part-time student employees — answered approximately 50,000 calls and 10,000 emails in 2020.
Starting Tuesday, June 1, 2021, UIT will begin to gradually migrate all University of Utah and University of Utah Health faculty and staff UMail accounts from Microsoft Exchange Server (hosted on campus) to Microsoft Exchange Online (hosted online by Microsoft infrastructure).
UIT is pleased to announce that John Penrose has been named the associate director for UIT’s Project Management Office (PMO). He replaces Jill Brinton, who is in the process of transitioning to retirement.
Swain, who has served as interim associate director since December 2020, brings more than 11 years of leadership experience and 15 years of experience in international education to the position.
IT leaders are issuing a final reminder that the University of Utah’s extended Oracle Java subscription license expired on Friday, May 22, 2021, and will not be renewed. System administrators who haven’t yet identified and migrated tools and systems that rely on Oracle Java must immediately address this issue.
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