Welcome to uWaterloo Connect IT! This blog will provide a collaborative environment for university community members to help shape the future of IT at Waterloo.
SharePoint is a highly configurable, collaborative platform used substantially among many organizations. At the University of Waterloo, it is predominantly used as a document management and storage system. While it boasts vast permission and security options, one of its weakest links is management of those permissions as it only displays its hierarchy security structure in flat-view files. It also has no bulk management tool, no retired user cleanup, and no active directory (AD) group enumeration.
The Fall 2018 issue of the IST Newsletter is now available. Inside you'll learn about the campus network upgrade project, finphishing, improvements to Quest, a new Research Ethics system, and more!
And the winner is...
The Summer 2018 issue of the IST Newsletter is now available.Inside you'll learn about Office 365, password tips, learning environment retreats, two-factor authentication and more!
And the winner is...
Meet Lynda
Lynda.com is a leading online learning platform that helps anyone learn business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals.
Since 2014, Waterloo staff, faculty, and graduate students have reaped the benefits of these online courses. And now, as the result of a province-wide agreement negotiated by eCampusOntario and the Provincial Government, all Waterloo students have free, unlimited access to Lynda.com.
The Winter 2018 issue of the IST Newsletter is now available. Read about Workday; a highly successful student and Portal team initiative; whole-disk encryption; digital learning technology in the classroom; Lynda.com; and more!
And the winner is...
Congratulations to Murray Zink, who won a $25 Starbucks gift card for subscribing to the IST Newsletter.
This past December, IST hosted the 15th annual WatITis conference (pronounced “What – it – is” for those still wondering). Over 250 IT staff from all over campus attended the conference, which had an array of sessions ranging from Microsoft Office 365 to Advanced Design Implementation and Developer Workflow.
Our keynote this year was Assistant Computer Science Professor, Gregor Richards, who enthusiastically discussed the history, current status and future of programming languages at the University of Waterloo.
Tell us a bit about yourself.
My name is Andrew McAlorum, and I’m the new Director of Client Services in IST.
In collaboration with campus partners in the Dana Porter Library and New Residence Building, IST has opened two new service desks. Conveniently located, the service desks offer help with wireless connection issues (Eduroam), WatIAM administration, virus removal, anti-virus installation, general inquiries, and more.
Dana Porter (DP) Library Service Desk
This fall has seen a large increase in unsolicited commercial email (UCE), better known as spam, being sent to members of the University of Waterloo community.
We're used to seeing spam for products like pharmaceuticals sent by mysterious and secretive organizations overseas. A notable difference with the current spam surges is that many of the messages are coming from real companies with offices in Canada. They are offering things like student housing or textbooks, and appear to be legitimate enterprises.
Work-Integrated Learning Community Support and Research Portal
In this final post of a three-part series (read part one and part two), I will describe our experience using co-op, as well as the concept of developing a ‘co-op culture’ in a workplace.
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