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The AV Equipment and Support service is now available to request as a part of a room reservation in the EMS Room Scheduling System Web App to make event reservations easier! Learn more...

The Wi-Fi upgrades taking place on the CU Anschutz and CU Denver campuses will prepare the university for future growth in technology. You’ll see our work in progress street signs in front of buildings where work is occurring!

Learn new Microsoft skills, expand your knowledge of applications, or simply elevate your day-to-day work. These lunchtime, instructor-led courses are free for staff, faculty and students.

October was Cybersecurity Awareness Month and the Office of Information Technology (OIT) and the Office of Security and Compliance (OSC) partnered with security and compliance departments across the university to deliver a month of cybersecurity content. This included webinars, news articles, and sharing best practices information. Each week during the month of October featured a cybersecurity threat prevention tool and explained why they are helpful. While Cybersecurity Awareness Month is over, cybersecurity is a conversation and practice that is relevant every day. Visit the OIT website for more information, FAQs, and resources so that you can take measures to keep your information safe.

OIT has been reworking our tools and services and we have more to offer than ever before. You might be familiar with the standard tools provided by the university such as Microsoft Office, Zoom, and Canvas, but are you aware of these other programs that you can access for free or at a discounted rate? Here are some software programs available for faculty, staff, and students that you might not be aware of. For a complete list of the software available to university faculty, staff, students, and healthcare professionals, visit our website.

The Office of Information Technology is recruiting new team members. As we are growing and expanding both on the Anschutz Medical Campus and the Denver campus, we have several open positions we are currently hiring for. OIT is looking for diverse team members to join us at both campuses, so if you or someone you know is looking to join an innovative team, review our open positions and see if one is a good fit.

OIT Statuspage is an email and phone messaging system to alert students, staff, and faculty of any system outages. You can customize your notification options by choosing what messages and notifications you receive so that you are only contacted with information relevant to you.

Training sessions are led by a Microsoft learning consultant and are free of charge for all current faculty, staff, and students. Register for one or more sessions in the series!

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month - join us for activities throughout the month including the Cybersecurity Threat Prevention and Awareness Round Table at noon on Thursday, October 6.

Students, faculty, and staff can sign up for the OIT Statuspage service alerts including a choice of services via email or text.

Be sure that your university password is current; and, applications, operating systems, and software are all up to date as we prepare for the fall semester!

Software and applications are available for free or at a discounted rate for the university community. Visit the OIT software webpage for a full list of searchable software such as Microsoft 365 products, Adobe Creative Cloud, and BioRender.

Deployment of the new antivirus security solution - Microsoft Defender for Endpoint - for Windows operating systems managed by the university will begin on Monday, June 20. If you are logged into your system, you will be prompted to restart your computer once the update to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is installed.

Work continues on enhancing security protocols because of the rise in cyberattacks against members of our university community. Phase 2 begins Wednesday, June 1, and limits the number of external bulk email senders to help stop phishing attacks.

Microsoft Outlook online meeting features changes. Read more about adding or disabling Microsoft Teams on Outlook invites.

OIT will be going live next month with a new communication tool for informing the university community about emergency technology outages. Once the new Statuspage is implemented, you will be able to click on the Systems Status battery or the All Systems Alerts button to link to the Statuspage for more details about an outage.

As part of the CU Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus Adobe Creative Campus program, students have free access to Adobe Creative Cloud and faculty and staff have access to to a license for only $45 per year. Adobe Creative Cloud has all the heavy hitters for graphic design, video editing, web development, and image editing plus, new cutting-edge programs for animation, 3D design, and augmented reality—more than 30 tools available for desktop, mobile devices, and the web.

OIT is excited to announce the successful implementation of a new enterprise-level web search solution. The new tool delivers features that improve the university website experience for all staff, faculty, and students.

Universities and businesses around the world were impacted last month by what is being dubbed the most significant cybersecurity vulnerability of the last decade involving Log4j software. CU security teams and system administrators partnered together to mitigate risk and remediate this security problem - allowing students, faculty, and staff the ability to continue learning, teaching, and working.

The temporary restrictions placed on CU online systems during the Log4j global security threat have been lifted and standard access restored beginning Friday, January 7, 2022, at noon. With new safeguards and enhanced monitoring in place, the university is able to safely return to standard operations and restore normal access across all systems. To our knowledge, university data was not compromised.