By Simon Alexander IS&T is providing a new service to let staff and students use their personal settings on different PCs around the University. This will improve the teaching and learning experience because application presets will be retained between sessions so staff and students won’t need to re-configure them each time they log in. For …
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Keep your personal settings and shortcuts on different University PCs
October 14th, 2014 | Posted by in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)New 2014 Managed Desktop being installed on staff PCs
September 17th, 2014 | Posted by in IT preparations for teaching | Uncategorized - (0 Comments)By Simon Alexander Today (Wednesday 17 September), we have started rolling out the new software for the 2014/15 academic year to staff PCs. We do this in phases, bringing machines up to date with a series of ‘patches’ (six in all) to make sure that staff who have personal settings and software installed can have …
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Deployment of software for start of teaching
September 3rd, 2014 | Posted by in IT preparations for teaching | IT projects - (0 Comments)How we’re progressing with the deployment of software for the new academic year.
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New 4K digital projector for The Void
September 1st, 2014 | Posted by in IT improvements | IT preparations for teaching - (0 Comments)
Our new 4K cinema projector is a major advance in digital for the University in its history of film projection
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Following the move of Aline Hayes to be IT Director at Sheffield City Council, two new interim appointments were made recently in IS&T.
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Balancing Act – how we protect IT Services in the Start of Year period
August 13th, 2014 | Posted by in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)We have a IT change restriction period between 5 August and 6 October to protect University services.
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New Remote Desktop now live – and available from mobile devices
August 1st, 2014 | Posted by in IT improvements | IT preparations for teaching - (0 Comments)
by Simon Alexander The new Staff Remote Desktop is now live for all staff to use when off campus.The new service has the same software and settings as the Windows 7 Managed Desktop and is available from multiple devices, including PCs, Apple Macs, iPads, iPhones and Android devices. When you first use it, please make …
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A clean slate – resetting your printing balance to zero
July 31st, 2014 | Posted by in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)
by James Griffiths From 1 August, the desktop icon which shows the cost of your printing will revert to £0.00. After that, the balance will continue to run (in minus figures) as you print so you will be able to see exactly what the cost is as you go along. Some types of printer are …
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Help us slim down the costs of printing
July 29th, 2014 | Posted by in Sustainability - (0 Comments)
We are piloting a piece of software called Adobe LeanPrint within the University. This helps to save paper and ink for the printing you do. It’s a simple piece of software to use and automatically optimises each document to make savings without compromising readability. Settings are adjustable so you can decide how strong you want the paper …
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The Managed Desktop 2014 image is now available
July 16th, 2014 | Posted by in IT preparations for teaching - (0 Comments)
by Simon Alexander, Networks and Infrastructure IS&T have made the 2014 Managed Desktop image available so that it can be installed on new workstations and the existing labs when they are re-imaged. The major update for 2014/15 is the use of Internet Explorer 11, which is the latest version of Microsoft’s web browser. The lab workstations …
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