News


University of North Texas System & UNT Appoint New Chief Information Officer

Monday, September 30, 2019

Chris McCoy HeadshotChris McCoy, Vice Chancellor for Finance & Administration at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, has been named Chief Information Officer for the University of North Texas System and its flagship University of North Texas. McCoy, who has 30+ years of information technology experience in higher education, starts his new role on October 28 and will be based in Denton.

Data Center Updates

Friday, July 12, 2019

 

The ITSS Enterprise System team has officially begun the infrastructure hardware refresh.This consists of 3 major projects: migrating to the new hyper converged infrastructure for the virtual environment; updating the hardware within the file storage service; and updating the hardware in the data protection environment.

Cloud Voice Phase One is Complete!

Friday, May 10, 2019

For the past several years, the UNT System has been piloting Voice over IP telephony based on Microsoft Skype for Business. In the fall of 2017, ITSS acquired licenses for Microsoft’s A5 suite of applications for Office 365. These licenses gave us the opportunity to take a leading role amongst higher education institutions by moving our telephony services off traditional copper lines to the cloud.