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 »
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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 »
Good-bye Novell, Hello Microsoft
Information Systems is undertaking a major systems change over the next year that will affect many of you at some point. The successive versions of Novell NetWare software that EMU has used since the campus was networked in the 1990’s is being phased out in favor of Microsoft’s Active Directory and related products. We anticipate… Read more »
Information Systems Annual Survey – 2011
Each Spring Information Systems surveys the EMU community to determine the level of customer satisfaction on campus. The survey results are also used to solicit suggestions from users. You can read Information System’s response to the 2011 survey at http://www.emu.edu/is/info/survey/2011.html.
Results of the 24 March emergency notification test
During the March 24, 2011 test of the EMU Emergency Notification System (ENS) we asked you to confirm that you’d received the test message and tell us how you received it. Over 120 of you responded. Many of you confirmed that you’d received the test message multiple ways–through the Via Radio HEARO devices, through a… Read more »
Test of EMU Alerts Systems – 24 MAR 2011
On behalf of the Crisis Management Preparedness Team (CMPT) this coming Thursday Information Systems and Physical Plant personnel will conduct a test of the EMU Alerts systems. Here are the details describing the test: DAY/DATE/TIME OF TEST: Thursday, March 24, 2011, 9:10am SYSTEMS TO BE TESTED: Email message to everyone-urgent@emu.edu Email message to everyone subscribed… Read more »
Phishing Phacts – Fall Semester 2010
Information Systems wants all EMU email account owners to know the following “phishing phacts”. CRIMINALS WANT YOUR EMU USERNAME AND PASSWORD: Email messages are being sent to @emu.edu email addresses nearly every day with very clever messages that attempt to trick employees and students into thinking they need to reply and provide their username and… Read more »
Info Systems Recommends Replacing Blackboard
The market for Learning Management Systems (LMSes) in small higher educational institutions is changing. Proprietary products like Blackboard and Jenzabar’s eRacer are being supplanted by the open source products Moodle and Sakai. Vendors of proprietary LMSes are finding it difficult to compete with the features, flexibility and value provided by open source offerings. Information Systems… Read more »