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A major student housing renovation project in the University of Utah’s West Village continues to progress, with UIT leading critical IT infrastructure efforts. The East and West Villages are geared toward upper division undergraduate students with families and graduate students.

New network devices regularly come online, and old ones exceed their manufacturer-recommended end of life. Life cycle-driven upgrades are critical to the stability, redundancy, and security of the U’s wireless networks.

Cisco AnyConnect virtual private network (VPN) infrastructure will be retired on May 12, 2022. University of Utah and University of Utah Health VPN users must install and start to use the Palo Alto GlobalProtect VPN client before this date.

An initiative is underway to move network nodes from the Park Building to the Williams Building in Research Park, making it the university’s second primary network node after the Eccles Broadcast Center.

This holiday season, the Information Security Office recommends that members of the university community take a few minutes to improve the security of their home networks — especially if someone in their household receives a new tech device as a gift.

When answering calls to your university phone number, please identify your affiliation with the University of Utah or University of Utah Health. Similarly, when recording voicemail greetings, please identify your U affiliation in the message.

Rule 4-004H: Remote Access outlines the requirements and responsibilities that U students, faculty, staff, and affiliates should follow to properly protect the university’s IT resources when connecting off-site to the U’s network for school or work purposes.

By next year, all VPN users are expected to switch to GlobalProtect, which will become the central VPN service for all University of Utah and University of Utah Health staff, faculty, students, and affiliates.

An SMS (text message)-capable phone and access code will soon be required to connect to UGuest, which provides visitors to the University of Utah and University of Utah Health with basic, unencrypted wireless internet access.

Though new wireless access points get a lot of attention, approximately 57 percent of network projects tracked in the 2021 calendar year are actually hardware and software life-cycle upgrades.