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Dr. Hoit's Office
Open Letter to Staff: UF Exchange Project Underway
The UF Exchange Project was initiated in order to offer a high-quality,
standard, low-cost service to interested units. The University currently
operates over 150 registered independent e-mail services at an estimated
annual cost of over $3 million. The quality of these services varies
across campus and basic services such as secure e-mail, calendaring and
mobile messaging are not available to the majority of faculty and staff.
Complete Story at right.
Academic Technology
BlackBoard Vista 4 Conversion
The Vista learning management system is undergoing a major
upgrade from Vista 3 to Vista 4. The new system launch date is
now scheduled for Summer B 2007.
Collaborative Software by Elluminate
After a committee spent months considering hundreds of criteria, they
chose a collaborative software solution for UF which will be making
its debut soon.
Active Directory
Windows Vista at UF: Greetings from Vista
TAP!
In recent news, UF was informed that the
consumer product "Vista Ultimate Edition" is included in our campus
agreement. This version of Vista is appropriate for use in
controlling televisions and media installations. As a consumer
product, "Ultimate" is not eligible for extended support and has
individual license keys per copy. It is not intended for broad use.
GatorLink E-mail Service Enhancements
We are in the process of making changes to the GatorLink e-mail
service and to GatorMail, our web-based e-mail client that many of you use
to access your GatorLink mailbox. These changes are a direct result of
responses to the Student Government (SG) Webmail Survey many of you
responded to Fall semester. We'd like to thank the SG Webmail Committee
for working with us to help us improve the GatorLink email service.
Wall-Plate Services & Implementation Project
You've probably heard about this by now. Wall-plate service is a
centrally-funded, Office of Information Technology initiative. CNS
will
soon begin a 3-year project to upgrade 18,000 ports on the UF main campus.
The question you might be asking yourself is, "What exactly is Wall-Plate
Service?"
Read on.
For more CNS news,
please see our newsletter,
/Update.
Cyber Self-Defense Class Offered June 7
UF Security Team-member John Sawyer will be
presenting his popular "Cyber Self-Defense" class on June 7th.
This session is designed to raise awareness of faculty and staff
on topics including safe Web browsing, principle of least privilege,
encrypting and backing up files, e-mail safety, and wireless security. The
class is very interactive with discussion topics that get the participants
thinking about how to protect their personal and work computers both at
home and in the office.
As IT
professionals, you may not need this course; but please consider
recommending it to your colleagues who may benefit from it. The class is
FREE to all UF faculty and staff, and will be held Thursday, June 7, 9:00
a.m. to 10:30 a.m., in the Human Resource Services Building, Room 120.
Register at the HRS Training & Organizational Development page
(http://www.hr.ufl.edu/training). The coursenumber is GET199.
Data Security Guidelines
A set of draft Data Security guidelines is currently
available for review and comment by the UF IT community. We anticipate
these guidelines to be enacted as official UF policy by the CIO sometime
during this summer. Interested parties are invited to read them and send
questions or comments to
UF Information Security Manager
Kathy Bergsma.
Did You Know...? Security Policy Tip
Did You Know
that "Changes to IT resources must be planned, documented and announced
to the appropriate audience. The planning must consider the impact on
confidentiality, integrity, availability, recoverability and
auditability."
Welcome Jim Hranicky Jim Hranicky is a Gator from way back. The newest
addition to the UF Security team earned his Bachelor of Science degree right
here in 1994, and has been honing his skills here ever since.
IT Training
Windows Vista &
Office 2007 Courses Now Available On-Line
UF faculty, staff, and students now have access to FREE on-line, self-paced training on the newest version of Microsoft Windows ("Vista") and the popular MS Office suite ("Office 2007").
"NETg" now "SkillSoft": Users Encouraged to Move to New Server
During May, the NETg division of Thomson, Inc. was purchased by Skillsoft. While this will mean some changes to the on-line training offerings familiar to the UF community, we are happy to tell you that not only is UF's on-line training still "Open For Business," but an expanded suite of offerings is now available.
Web Administration
Collaborations Yield Success
Web Administration has been busy collaborating with a variety of groups around
campus on a number of projects, including:
Also, UF and the Web Admin group recently bid
farewell to
Mark Trammell as he takes up new challenges.
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