Starting this week, UIT will begin the university-wide migration of Skype for Business chat and collaboration and voice accounts to Microsoft Teams. UIT’s Account Executives will work directly with departments that depend on Skype for Business for voice services and conference rooms.
FormAssembly, the new cloud service replacing UIT’s current form creation and management tool, will empower Omni CMS users to create and update their forms, and embed them in their websites.
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Microsoft is hosting several first- and second-level Microsoft Teams training sessions for University of Utah community members in advance of the university’s migration from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams this fall.
Starting in May, UIT will begin two major IT infrastructure projects to modernize the university’s communication technology and better meet the needs of those working, learning, and teaching remotely.
Brainware — an optical character recognition software that UIT is helping the university purchase and integrate — is expected to increase access for high school students and college transfers, improve admissions decisions, and help increase student retention.
Included in the University of Utah's campus agreement with Microsoft and integrated with Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Whiteboard lets you create and share digital whiteboards. There is no cost to current U students, staff, and faculty.
Effective January 1, 2021, some Microsoft software is no longer available through the Kivuto OnTheHub web store. Microsoft will continue to provide updates for software previously purchased though the Kivuto web store.
CIO Steve Hess joined President Ruth Watkins on the most recent episode of the “U Rising” podcast to discuss the U’s role in providing a statewide network infrastructure and other digital tools, and the initiative to enhance both last year.
IT-wise, spring semester at the University of Utah began on a quiet note, due in part to UIT’s start-of-semester committee, as well as recent technology upgrades.
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