MFCF service page for staff

MFCF services for staff

Time requirements for MFCF service:

https://uwaterloo.ca/math-faculty-computing-facility/time-requirements-mfcf-service

List of services

Accounts

  • Accounts request form for new accounts and extensions, 48 hours notice
  • Have an on-boarding and off-boarding procedure (inform of us arrivals and departures for staff, faculty, grads and post docs)

Email

  • Automatic with HR status
  • Visitors do not get UW email accounts

Printing

  • MFCF will handle access to printers through request tracker (RT)
  • Repairs and hardware problems call CSR 519-570-0066

Connect from home with VPN

  • Shared drives and remote connections to windows.math

Mac minis

  • Keep track once a term of which grad is using which Mac mini
  • Work with MFCF to determine yearly budget

Equipment moves

  • Submit RT 
  • To be done by MFCF but keep track of who is moving, where and with which computer
  • Equipment moves with the person because they have admin perms on a particular machine

File storage – contact MFCF

  • Being migrated from S: shared drives to SharePoint for shared files
    • Math-SharedDrives for role-based shared files
    • math-dept SharePoint sites are for department wide access-      
  • Your manager should let you know which process is being used. MFCF can confirm and give instructions.
  • OneDrive for personal storage, but will goes away once you leave campus

Events and PhD Thesis support

  • RT is submitted by MGO, MFCF will assign a dept rep to create the Teams and coordinate the event with the committee members
  • MFCF on hands for technical trouble-shooting only
  • Equipment should be borrowed through ITMS

Grad orientation sessions

Equipment rollover

  • New staff and Faculty Admin positions, purchases are the responsibility of the department
  • Six-year replacement is on the DOM rollover program, initiated by MFCF

Adobe licenses

  • Use campus license for Acrobat Pro (choose School or Company at login)
  • Use VIP license from W Store for Creative Cloud and through MFCF for other Adobe products (choose Personal at login)

Anything else: RT https://rt.uwaterloo.ca/SelfService/Forms/MFCF/