Outlook Licensing Errors

The S&T IT Department is aware that some customers are having difficulties using Outlook. The errors appear when starting/opening Outlook and indicate licensing issues. We are collaborating with all UM System IT teams to determine the best solution. An update will be provided when the issue is resolved….

S&T Planned Wireless Network Outage

S&T Wireless Network Services will experience a 15 minute outage during the maintenance window on Monday January 4, 2021 10:00 PM through Tuesday January 5, 2021 6:00 AM.  The wireless network outage is due to a wireless controller upgrade. …

Microsoft Office Icons & Shortcuts

The M365 Apps update from Friday night, December 11, may cause your previous Microsoft Office icons and shortcuts to disappear. Because the 2016 version of these software products had security vulnerabilities, it had to be uninstalled. The removal of the older products may have also removed the icons and shortcuts from your computer. Instructions (with…

Coming Fall 2021 – One Canvas for all campuses

Beginning with the Fall 2021 semester, all faculty, staff and students on the S&T, MU, UMKC, and UMSL campuses will use the same Canvas instance. Consolidating into one Canvas supports cross-campus enrollment and collaborative teaching by providing a single point of access for all users. Moving to one Canvas system also removes redundancy in academic…

Kaltura to Panopto Changeover

On June 1, 2021 Kaltura will no longer be available for use, but don’t worry – your video content will be moved for you. Since Kaltura and Panopto have developed to have very similar feature sets over the past few years, we will be consolidating all video streaming and lecture capabilities onto Panopto to streamline…

New calling features in Microsoft Teams

All University employees received an email this evening (11/19) that indicates you now have new calling features in Microsoft Teams. This email is legitimate and is a result of a license upgrade with Microsoft. You do not need to report the email as phishing or be concerned….

Phishing email hits S&T

A phishing email using impersonation was circulated to Missouri S&T email addresses today (Wednesday, November 18). The subject line reads “#Cellphone number” and the email appears to be from gmail.com using various usernames. Do not respond or click the link within. Please delete the email as this phishing attempt has been reported to IT Security….