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UIT staff recognized for their excellent work.

Carter, whose early work with and deep knowledge of Oracle systems led him to a career in UIT's University Support Services, says he follows the management principles from "Leaders Eat Last."

In order to create a central, more user-friendly, and easy-to-manage virtual private network (VPN) service, the university and U of U Health decided to partner on a project to replace the Cisco AnyConnect VPN client with the Palo Alto GlobalProtect VPN client.

DocuSign, a cloud-based service that enables users to send, manage, and record electronic signatures on digital documents, is now available at no cost for non-hospital staff and faculty. Student eligibility is under consideration.

The Heber City native and University of Utah alumna, who once aspired to be an architect, intended only to minor in music but found her true calling instead.

The University of Utah is in the early stages of a multiyear project with two complementary and overlapping objectives: to redesign the general ledger chart of accounts and reduce finance customizations in the U’s instance of PeopleSoft.

During a recent U town hall, CIO Steve Hess addressed the IT security issues that come with telecommuting, including concerns about data privacy and work on personal devices. He urged employees (and students) to review and follow university IT regulations.

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.