Information Systems recommends that EMU outsource email and calendar systems to either Google Apps for Education or Microsoft Office 365 for Education. Both systems provide more space, more capabilities and more opportunities for collaboration. We’re interested in faculty, staff and students’ opinions on this recommendation and on the choice of Google or Microsoft.
Faculty/Staff
Sophos Anti-Virus: issues from false virus detection
Update 21 Sept 3:30pm: We have released a modified version of Sophos’ clean-up utility for students and home users: Sophos Fix . You do not need to run this on EMU-owned computers. Download the file and unzip it then right-click ‘Sophos Fix.cmd’ and ‘Run as Administrator’. Please send questions or comments to the Information Systems Helpdesk… Read more »
End of EMU Technology Era – Novell Shut Down May 29
Next week marks the end of a technology era at EMU, with the final shutdown of our Novell servers. Novell was the first networking system deployed at EMU in about 1994. For the better part of the last two years Information Systems has been planning and then implementing our migration from the Novell networking system… Read more »
Phishing: Another Reminder – NEVER Give Away Your EMU Password!
With several EMU email accounts having recently been compromised because the EMU mailbox owners were tricked into giving away their passwords, I feel I need to, again, remind the campus community that you should never, never, never give away your EMU password. Did I mention NEVER? Email messages are being sent to @emu.edu email addresses… Read more »
Broadcast Email Messages: Effective Tool or Spamming Ourselves?
Broadcast email messages are those sent to everyone, all-students and non-students @emu.edu. Any EMU employee can send to these email addresses. Info Systems receives unsolicited feedback periodically from the campus community that is often critical of the number and kinds of broadcast messages sent. I offer the following comments for the campus community to consider: SGA… Read more »
Internet Bandwidth: A Costly Resource – Please Use Wisely
EMU relies heavily on its Internet connection for a wide spectrum of resources and functionality. As of December 2011, the campus uses a 45mbps metropolitan Ethernet connection which costs about $50,000 each year. This is a relatively low amount of bandwidth for an institution our size because, for a number of reasons, Internet bandwidth in… Read more »
Status Update – Microsoft Migration Project
In 1995 EMU implemented its first campus-wide network using the Novell networking system. At the time it was the most popular networking system in operation, particularly on college campuses. Over time, Microsoft networking systems improved and by 2000 Microsoft became the predominant system used in commercial environments and colleges and universities also began migrating to… Read more »
Moving employee Z-drive data to Microsoft Royals domain
On Friday evening (08/19/2011), Information Systems will be moving files currently located on the Faculty/Staff Novell server (FS) to our Microsoft Royals domain servers. This will change what happens when employees log into the network during and after the moving is performed. We want to make EMU employees aware of the following details: Date/time for… Read more »
Moving Student data to Microsoft Royals domain
Information Systems will be moving files on the student Novell server (ST) to our Microsoft Royals domain servers. This will change what happens when students and (some) employees log into the network during and after the moving is performed. We want to make students, faculty and staff aware of the following details: Date/time for the… Read more »
Safe Internet Use: 101
Criminals continue to develop increasingly clever ways to trick computer users into exposing their personal/confidential information, submitting their username and/or password, unknowingly downloading malicious programs onto their computers or falling for a money fraud scam. This is yet another reminder for users to exercise caution, be skeptical and when in doubt, “don’t do it” –… Read more »