Author Archives: Teena Ham

Access to network files on server Dixie will not be available on Thursday, August 13, 2009 from 9:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. due to maintenance.  Thank you for your cooperation during this maintenance outage.
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Planned Monthly System Maintenance Outage Notice for Sunday, August 9, 2009.  The Admin System (Wando and Cooper) will be unavailable starting at 9 a.m. until noon for planned system maintenance.   The following applications will have an interruption to normal service during this time:  SIS, HRS, FRS Access  - Including Connx, SAS and Eprint interfaces  - Faculty, Student and [...]
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Below is an actual phishing email.  Note, the IT department will never ask for your username or password via email. Do not respond. Just delete. On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 3:49:37 EST "Webmail Support Team" wrote: Attn Student/Staff, This mail is to inform all our university Student/Staff that we will be upgrading our Webmail site. Due to this [...]
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“Magic” changes in the IT Helpdesk

“Magic” changes in the IT Helpdesk               June 16, 2009 was the first day that our IT Helpdesk team began working with the new management system, BMC Service Desk Express.  Another exciting element is that Service Desk Express is actively building a knowledge base for future use to solve existing product resolution and documents as well [...]
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Outlook 2007 Mailbox Help

Outlook 2007   How to make a new folder for your Outlook Inbox (If you have more than one Mailbox, make sure you select the mailbox where you want that folder located.)                                      ·        Select the desired Inbox ·        Click on the down arrow by the word “new” and then folder   ·        Type in the desired name of the new folder [...]
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Conficker Virus Alert

Since November, the computer worm, Conflicker has been spreading across the Internet and has now infected over 9 million PCs.  If infected, attackers can take complete control of your PC.  Macs are not vulerable.  For more information visit:  http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/viruses/worms/conficker.mspx
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Power Saving Tips

Power Saving Tips Save power & money: check the sleep setting on your computer. Even LCD monitors use power and when they are sitting idle they can be set to power down automatically. Here’s how you do it: On Windows XP computers: Right click anywhere on your wallpaper and choose “properties” from the pop-up menu that appears. Click “Screen Saver” [...]
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How big is too big?

Do you want to send an email with attachments?  Most email systems have a 10MB size limitation on email.  To ensure that the email will arrive safely, keep it under 10MB.
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New Email Filtering System!

Effective immediately, we are replacing the College’s overwhelmed email filtering system with a new solution named BorderWare Security Platform. This system will handle all in and outbound email filtering for the campus. This change has been hastened by ongoing serious problems with the reliability and efficiency of our previous solution. The College receives more than [...]
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Make things a little easier sometimes!

  KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS   Aside from increasing productivity, using keyboard shortcuts can make your life a lot easier so you don’t have to jump back and forth between the keyboard and mouse.         Here are 5 shortcuts!   CTRL + C Copies the highlighted text for insertion at another point in your document. CTRL + V Pastes the most recently copied text at the point [...]
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