IT Newsletter September 2021

Service Updates Phishing Email Simulations With the rise in ransomware, which commonly uses phishing campaigns to gain unauthorized access to people’s computers, it has become especially important that we all become experts at accurately identifying phishing attempt e-mails. Some examples of recent ransomware attacks include: Howard University Cancels Classes after Ransomware Attack Hackers use Colonial pipeline ransomware news for phishing attack The transition to Microsoft…

Leave Your Computer on this Weekend for Updates

Windows updates are planned between  2 a.m. and 6 a.m. Saturday, September 18. Please leave your computer connected to the S&T network and powered on over the weekend. Save your documents and close all applications because your computer will reboot during the update….

S&T Connect outages

The S&T Connect (Starfish) messaging and advising systems have been experiencing outages and data losses. For all services (including scheduling appointments and data entry), please use a workaround until services are restored. Faculty and staff who work with students are encouraged to accept phone calls, emails and walk-ins until services are restored….

Brief Campus-Wide Network Outage

We experienced a brief campus-wide network outage. Our engineers are working with MOREnet in investigating the issue. At the moment all network services are restored and are stable….

Unplanned Panopto Maintenance Outage tonight, August 27

As part of the Panopto migration effort by the Office of eLearning, there will be an unplanned maintenance outage this evening, Friday, August 27. This may involve all or some instances of Canvas at various times. Updates about this outage will be provided on your dashboard when logged into Canvas….

IT Services Outage

We have experienced an outage with several IT Services. The services should be recovered shortly as technicians are monitoring the issue….

AppsAnywhere updates planned tonight

Older versions of the AppsAnywhere program must be updated by S&T’s information technology staff before the start of the semester. Please save your work and leave your computer on this evening (Tuesday, Aug. 17) for a necessary update to AppsAnywhere at 7 p.m. If your computer has an older version of AppsAnywhere, the update will…

Significant upgrades to UM System core inter-campus network

Beginning on Monday, August 16, at 10 p.m., the network infrastructure team will work with MOREnet to upgrade the core inter-campus network. Although the work is expected to cause minimal interruption to network services, users may experience brief interruptions during the maintenance window. These upgrades are significant and required by all UM System campuses….

IT Newsletter 8-12

Service Updates AppsAnywhere Updates AppsAnywhere updates will take place Friday, August 13, between 7:00am and 8:00am. External Email Tagging Banner Added to your Email As of August 5th, a banner called email tagging was added to the top of email messages that originate outside of our organization. This is a part of the University of…