Modeled after last year's successful campus-wide secure computing awareness campaign, Yale ITS is gearing up for another round of Cyber Security Awareness events to be held throughout the month of October, National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Read more. »
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As another academic year begins at Yale, I welcome our new and returning students, and members of faculty and staff. As you use IT resources, please remember that Yale's network is essentially an extension of the Internet with all the opportunities and risks that entails. This note summarizes a few critical technology issues of importance to the Yale community. Please take a moment to review them... Read more. »
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As you arrive on campus, you may notice that there are new wireless networks available. In addition to the “yale wireless” network that you are likely familiar with, you will now notice “YaleSecure” and “YaleGuest” networks. Read More »
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The most important part of any computer is the data that resides on it. The documents, images, spreadsheets, databases, and other material are often the result of years of effort that would be nearly impossible to reconstruct if lost. Disk storage has grown incredibly over the last two years on personal computers and individuals can now squirrel away terabytes of data without worrying much about managing the number of files on their machines. The capacity seems endless. Read More »
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Apple's Snow Leopard: Doesn't yet work with some key applications
by Philip Rinehart, Manager, Managed Desktop Program, ITS Client Support
On August 28, Apple released its new operating system, Snow Leopard. At this time ITS does not recommend upgrading to Snow Leopard if you use any of the following key Yale applications. When these incompatibilities are addressed, we expect to fully support Snow Leopard. Read more. »
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Microsoft Windows 7: Be prepared
by Philip Rinehart, Manager, Managed Desktop Program, ITS Client Support
In October 2009, Microsoft is expected to release Windows 7, its next generation operating system. ITS is committed to fully supporting this updates in a timely manner. Planning is underway to analyze, document and provide support on a personal use level in the coming months. Read more. »
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Upgrading Office: Microsoft Office 2007 & 2008
by Jeff Capuano, Director, Support Technologies, ITS Client Support
ITS is pleased to announce plans for the staged deployment of Microsoft Office 2007 for Windows and Office 2008 for Mac during the 2010 fiscal year. This means that we will approach departments, one at a time and upgrade everyone in the department at once. We expect this process to last throughout the fiscal year. Read more. »
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