Information Technology Services (ITS) is working towards an end-of-the-year conclusion of UNCG’s Microsoft 365 (M365) adoption.

We are sharing this plan with you now to provide time for you to prepare. You will receive more details as we move through each stage of the transition.

Three key points about this plan:

• ITS will transfer data currently stored in UNCG’s Google and Box platforms to M365 solutions, as outlined in the following timeline.
• Faculty, staff, and students with research data will need to prepare for the migration by tagging their data in Box or Google no later than October 31, 2023.  

• UNCG is committed to data integrity and effective data management. The Office of Research and Engagement (ORE) has collaborated closely with ITS to develop a process that ensures research data compliance, security, and operability. To learn more, please see ORE’s instructions on how to tag your data.

• UNCG’s Gmail service will be deactivated, and all email messages within the application will be deleted on December 22, 2023.  

ITS is here to support you in this transition. We understand you may have questions and need assistance. Please reach out to us at 6-TECH.uncg.edu, (336) 256-TECH (8324), or [email protected] so that we can help you successfully transition your data.

There is another great slate of Research and Application webinars scheduled for the Fall 2023 semester. These are 30 or 45 minute webinars about UNCG libraries research and its applications. They’re recorded and available on YouTube after the session through the UNCG Libraries webinars page. Here are the sessions and times being offered this Spring:

• Open Access Funding Updates by Anna Craft on Tuesday August 29th at 11am
• Inside the Closed Stacks: Collections of Distinction in Special Collections and University Archives by Kathelene Smith and Stacey Krim on Friday September 29th at 12pm
• Ferguson and the Case of the Missing Document: Online Federal Depository by Joshua Olsen on Tuesday October 31st at 12pm
• Scoping Reviews by Lea Leininger and Maggie Murphy on Wednesday November 15th at 1pm

You can sign up for these sessions here

. These webinars are also listed on the UNCG workshops page and are tagged as University Libraries, Faculty Professional Development, and Graduate Students. You’ll get a link to the Teams session the morning of the webinar, so be sure to mark your calendars after you sign up.

If you have any questions about these webinars from UNCG Libraries please reach out to Sam Harlow, [email protected].