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Starting September 15, 2020, the University of Utah will roll out the second phase of its security upgrades, which will require all campus faculty, staff, and affiliates to use two-factor authentication (2FA) for UMail and all Microsoft Office 365 applications, including Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams.

A portal to help students purchase and manage software from the university's Office of Software Licensing (OSL) is now available via Campus Information Services (CIS). Plus, we have a list of all the computer labs open on campus this semester.

The Enterprise Web Advisory Council (EWAC) met on August 13. The next Teaching and Learning Portfolio (TLP) meeting is August 31. The Strategic Information Technology Committee (SITC) will meet again September 8. EWAC will reconvene September 10. The IT Architecture and New Technology Committee (ANTC) will meet again on September 28.

UIT staff recognized for their excellent work.

The Fiber Team in UIT Communications Infrastructure manages more than 38 million feet of fiber-optic cables that wind around the University of Utah. That's approximately 7,200 miles, roughly the distance from Salt Lake City to Hong Kong.

Due to a recent security incident, all University of Utah students, faculty, and staff who are not University of Utah Health employees or Epic users will be required to change their uNID passwords by Wednesday, August 5, 2020 — unless you changed your password after Sunday, July 19, 2020.

New and returning members of the U community who are unable to access UMail from your mobile device (smartphone, tablet), desktop computer, or laptop should refer to our online help articles for instructions.

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey recently released a comprehensive analysis of the largest 3D map of the universe ever created, in part with data processed at UIT's Center for High Performance Computing. The new results include detailed measurements of more than 2 million galaxies and quasars covering 11 billion years of cosmic time.

RedPrint — administered by Managed Print Services (MPS), and supported by UIT and the U’s IT governance committees — allows users to control when and where their jobs are released, and helps MPS and its clients gain visibility into their print environments in order to make better decisions.

With greater emphasis on remote learning as the University of Utah prepares for fall semester, Teaching & Learning Technologies (TLT) is in the process of outfitting approximately 120 general access classrooms with video capture systems.