Username = R Number in classrooms and labs

6 08 2012

 

Just a reminder – starting today, if you are logging into a classroom or lab computer:

username = Royal ID/R number (e.g, R12345678)

password = my.scranton password

 

Office desktops and laptop computers are not affected by this change. See last week’s post for details.

 


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IT Matters Spring 2011

5 04 2011

The latest edition of IT Matters came out today and is available for download.  A few faculty-relevant highlights:

  • Security Manager Tony Maszeroski explains what the Identity and Access Management (IAM) initiative is all about.  The IAM initiative is the reason behind a lot of the smaller changes you’ll see happening on campus – e.g., your R number becoming your user ID, etc.
  • University of Scranton faculty and staff can get serious discounts on Microsoft Software like Office 2010 and a Windows 7 upgrade if they need the software on their home computers for work-related purposes.  Check out http://www.journeyed.com/select/go/CAUSCRANTON for pricing – just know that you’ll have to fax or email a copy of your Royal ID in order to complete your order.
  • There will be some major outages this summer from 7/28/11 through 8/2/11 as we go through an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) upgrade to a new operating system.  More details when we get closer to the migration date.
  • Three rooms in the Unified Science Center will have lecture capture capability.  If you’re interested in lecture capture, let TAG know – we need your input!
  • Deployment of Microsoft Forefront as a replacement for McAfee continues.  All campus PCs should be switched over by the end of May.  All faculty should get two warning emails with instructions in the week before their computer is scheduled for Forefront deployment.
  • Should funding be secured, campus wireless will be upgraded within the next six to ten months, starting with the dorms and followed by academic and administrative spaces.

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Note: Post updated 4/5 at 3pm with a clarification on campus wireless from Network Infrastructure.


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IT Update: What it Means for Faculty

8 02 2011

All faculty and staff got an email from CIO Jerry DeSanto this morning, and  I thought it might be helpful to try to pull out and discuss what’s specifically relevant to faculty.  Here’s my take, though IR staff and administration are welcome to comment or clarify.

Jerry mentioned that IR has three priority projects:

1. “Converting the platform on which our enterprise resource planning system (Banner) runs on from VMS to Linux.” This change doesn’t have much of a direct impact on faculty, other than that it’s a major upgrade to the University’s infrastructure.

2. “Implementing phase one of an Identity Access and Management (IAM) system.” The main impact of this change on faculty will be that we’ll soon be asked to use our R numbers as our user IDs.  We’ve discussed this previously on the TAG site, but as a quick reminder, the main reason IR gave us as to why this change is coming is so that each user will have a unique, immutable ID. And this needs to happen before we can move to Microsoft Live @ Edu.

3. “Establishing Active Directory domains for devices and individuals.” Active Directory is a Microsoft service that will sync your Windows account –  you’ll be able to access synced files from any computer on campus.

Jerry points out in the last paragraph of his email that a main impact these three projects will have on faculty is that they’re taking up quite a bit of time and energy on IR’s side – which means that we might need to be patient when we have special requests that require IR staff time.

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