News

Information Systems & Technology (IST) will begin work this year to refresh the University’s core network equipment. Current network technology is nearing end-of-life, providing an opportune time to review the current environment and institute changes that will improve performance and allow for the optimization of the core network components as future demand requires.

We will be testing the University’s campus-wide emergency communication system around 1:30 p.m. on February 7.

New version of Microsoft Teams to be enabled February 20, 2024. Microsoft is retiring the classic version of Teams on March 31, 2024. 

WatIAM (Sailpoint IdentityIQ) is being upgraded from version 8.1 to version 8.2. 

The initiatives profiled in our 2023 Annual Report represent important work that IST has undertaken on behalf of the campus community to strengthen our campus cybersecurity defences, enrich the educational technologies used for teaching and learning, and to modernize information systems used to serve our campus community.

Blackbaud CRM has been selected (via a request for proposal (RFP)) to provide a constituent relationship management solution (CRM).

The Fall 2022 issue of the IST Newsletter is now available.

Quest will be unavailable for scheduled maintenance.

WatIAM has been proactively shut down, as IST staff troubleshoot an error.