The OneIT Web Hosting Project is crossing the finish line in migrating 650 websites to the cloud hosting provider Acquia. With this key milestone, the team will soon be ready to close out the project.
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Thursday, September 15, 2016
The IAM project shut down its first active directory (AD) forest, Engineering’s CCAD AD forest. After the completion of this sub-project, central campus will be down to a single domain (not including UIHC). Decreasing the number of domains reduces colleges’ IT overhead and standardizes user accounts with the rest of campus.
Thursday, September 15, 2016
The Data Centers and Servers team decommissioned its 18th server room, freeing up 1,300 square feet for offices and labs for the Physics and Astronomy Department and reducing mechanical and electrical expenses.
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
OneIT leaders held a retreat over the summer to discuss and test a proposed governance process. Here's a recap of where we are at with governance.
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Great progress has been made in the migration of hundreds of UI websites to the cloud website hosting provider Acquia. Information Technology Services has moved 350 sites it hosted on on-premises servers for various campus units (Drupal sites on the SiteNow service), and should have the remaining 150 done this week. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences finished migrating its 64 sites, and Nursing and Admissions completed their migrations. The Graduate College is finishing up and the College of Dentistry is next.
Tuesday, August 09, 2016
In partnership with campus units, the End User Support (EUS) project team continues to make good headway in implementation of its three sub-projects. Several units have or are in the process of transitioning to the centralized model for desktop support, device management, or help desk services.
Tuesday, August 09, 2016
The ITS Extended Technical Support (ETS) workgroup provides desktop support to users across campus. The group has seen significant growth in the past year through the OneIT End User Support initiative, enabling a new organizational structure to improve services for campus.
Monday, July 25, 2016
KCRG-TV9 featured Drupal Digital Signage in a recent weekend newscast, noting how the new campus-wide service saves time and money. View KCRG story
Wednesday, June 08, 2016
Campus units using the Drupal Digital Signage Service have enthusiastically embraced a new, efficient way to power digital signs: small, reliable, and easy-to-maintain Intel Compute Sticks.
Wednesday, June 08, 2016
The OneIT Website Hosting Project initially focused on consolidating the number of Drupal instances across campus into a central service entity, but the team expanded its project scope after discovering that more savings could be had by moving web-hosting services to a cloud provider.