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UNCG ITS Joins the Internet2 NET+ Box Advisory Board
Over 150 universities with enterprise-wide Box deployments (all students, faculty, and staff) participate in the Internet2 NET+ Box program. Stewardship of the program is handled by a higher education Advisory Board of eight campuses: UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Notre Dame and now UNCG. Representing UNCG Information Technology Services (ITS) on the [Read More]
New Features in Box Notes
Box recently announced an improved version of Box Notes. With Box Notes, it’s easy to create meeting notes, share status updates and plan projects together — instantly available on all your devices. New features Inbox: Inbox lets you see which Box Notes have been recently edited by collaborators. They will be indicated with a blue [Read More]
Planned Downtime for Authentication (Login) Services – Affects Gmail, Canvas, and More | Thursday, March 16 | 5:00am – 7:30am
Who: Students, faculty and staff who log into applications connected to Shibboleth (UNCG’s Single sign-on) authentication services (see list of services below). What: Planned downtime of Shibboleth authentication services. Affected services affected include: Google Apps (e.g. Gmail, Hangouts, Calendar, Drive) Canvas Box Office 365 SpartanCard Online WebEx Qualtrics When: Thursday, March 16, 5:00 a.m. – 7:30 [Read More]
UPDATE (Resolved): AWS Problem Affecting UNCG Services
UPDATE:2/28/17, 8:50PM EST All services are operational at this time. Notifications in Canvas may be delayed as its systems clear messages that accumulated during the outage. ITS apologizes for any inconvenience caused by this issue and will continue to monitor the situation. If you have questions or continue to experience problems, please contact 6-TECH at [Read More]
Box Updates: New Optional App “Box Notes Desktop”
Box has released “Box Notes Desktop,” a new app for Mac and Windows, which allows users to access all of their Box Notes from their desktop. Some users may have received an email from Box about the new app, or may be prompted to download it when logging in to Box via http://box.uncg.edu. Box Notes [Read More]
