Andy Fearnley, IT Security Officer You may have seen recent reports about attacks on web sites and malicious software which can run on your computer. It’s clear that we all need to be vigilant about which websites we visit, make sure our passwords and log in details are secure and be on the lookout …
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Author Archives: Jennifer Kennedy
Keeping your home computer safe from viruses and hackers
June 4th, 2014 | Posted by in IT security - (0 Comments)Update on teaching software for 2014/15
June 4th, 2014 | Posted by in IT improvements | IT preparations for teaching | IT projects - (0 Comments)The list of software for teaching rooms is being sent out to subject leaders to check. IS&T needs feedback by Friday 13 June.
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SHU staff – test our new remote desktop service
May 23rd, 2014 | Posted by in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)A pilot Remote Desktop has just been made available to all staff within the University to test. We will be using feedback to understand what support will be needed when this replaces the current supported Remote Desktop later in the year.
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Brush up on your IT skills with Lynda.com
May 12th, 2014 | Posted by in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)Through a campus-wide subscription, all Sheffield Hallam University staff and students now have access to Lynda.com – an online video library with tutorials from experts in IT
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New ways to connect and communicate – updating our telecommunication systems
April 29th, 2014 | Posted by in IT improvements | IT projects | Shaping the University's future | Uncategorized | Unified Comms - (0 Comments)IS&T is updating the University’s telecommunictions systems to give us more control in the ways we communicate and greater flexibility in how we work.
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Preparing teaching rooms for start of year
April 28th, 2014 | Posted by in IT improvements | IT preparations for teaching | Uncategorized - (0 Comments)IS&T has alread started the work involved in preparing the teaching rooms for the start of the academic year.
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See the cost of your printing on your desktop
March 20th, 2014 | Posted by in Uncategorized - (0 Comments) By Pete Middleton Last month, IS&T installed a tool on staff PCs to enable them to see the cost of their printing. From next week, we’re deploying it in a slightly different way so that the information will display on the desktop by default on log in – staff will no longer have to …
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by Nigel Williamson, Head of IT Support, and Simon Alexander, Networks and Infrastructure Students, like all of us, can sometimes be forgetful and USB sticks are very easy to mislay. Until recently, if a student forgot to remove a memory stick from a University PC, it would end up in lost property and we’d have …
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IS&T have been working to speed up log in and start up times on PCs around the University.
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Keeping pace with change – learning lessons from adopting technology
March 5th, 2014 | Posted by in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)by Jonny Feldman, Head of Help Support and Guidance in IS&T The rapid and accelerating pace of technology change poses challenges along with the opportunities for staff and students. Jonny Feldman, Head of Help Support and Guidance in IS&T, thinks we can learn from the way we’ve adopted new technology in the past. He looks …
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