ITS Communications Corner Announcements

Flash (USB) Drive Problem Status: We Believe Rolling Back the Version of SEP (Symantec End Point) Addresses the Problem

The Problem: Occasionally, when you open a Microsoft Office file (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc.) from a USB key drive (or any drive with the FAT32 file system), modify the file, and then attempt to save the file, an error message will appear and the original file will be lost. This problem has been reported at other institutions as well as at UNI.

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ITS Educational Technology will sponsor a session on Virtual Worlds at noon, Wednesday, Nov. 19, in StudioIT, Room 134, ITTC. Dan Power and Susan Wurtz, from the College of Business Administration, will talk about the current and potential uses of virtual worlds for educational, business and social interactions, using Second Life to illustrate. Bring your lunch and join the fun.

Our ITS Ed Tech newsletter Fall edition:
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If you need additional assistance please contact the Computer Consulting Center (CCC) at (319) 273-5555. The CCC is located in Room 36 ITTC Building (formerly known as the East Gym). Consultants are available to provide hands-on assistance daily Monday through Friday during University Business Hours.

The Blackboard/WebCT learning management and electronic portfolio system will be shutdown Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at 6:00 a.m. to diagnose the Chat service and apply settings changes to the application servers. The system will be available by 7:00 a.m.

If you need additional assistance please contact the Computer Consulting Center (CCC) at (319) 273-5555. The CCC is located in Room 36 ITTC Building (formerly known as the East Gym). Consultants are available to provide hands-on assistance daily Monday through Friday during University Business Hours.

There will be a planned power outage in the Curris Business Building on Saturday, November 29, 2008, beginning midnight Friday and continuing until 8:00a.m. Saturday morning for phase II improvements to the Curris Data Center infrastructure. Prior to the loss of electrical power, systems will be shutdown in an orderly fashion beginning as early at 9:00p.m., Friday night.

This outage will affect only the Curris Data Center. All of the Services housed in the Curris Data Center including Email, MEMFIS, WebCT, MyUNIverse, ITS File & Print services, SIS applications and wireless internet connections will be unavailable during this time frame.

Additionally, applications for A&F, Marketing & Public Relations, CNS, ESS, DOR, and Advancement not specifically mentioned will be affected as well.

Campus access to the internet will be maintained during this outage.

During this time all services will be unavailable. Services will return once maintenance is complete - this may be earlier than the 8:00a.m. deadline.

If you need additional assistance please contact the Computer Consulting Center (CCC) at (319) 273-5555. The CCC is located in Room 36 ITTC Building (formerly known as the East Gym). Consultants are available to provide hands-on assistance daily Monday through Friday during University Business Hours.