Entries from October 2014 ↓

This morning at approximately 10:30, there was a hard drive failure on our campus home and shared directory storage system. During this time, many customers may have lost connection to their home and shared directories. As of roughly 10:55, all services have been restored. If you are unable to connect to your home (x) or shared (s) drives, please reboot your computer. If you still have issues connecting, please call the helpdesk at x7741.

The following maintenance activities will take place tonight, Thursday October 30:

Employee and Tec Classrooms will receive an update to Java 7 update 71 beginning at 9:00 PM. Users are encouraged to log off but leave their computers on when leaving work today. This will assist the installation of this patch and minimize any user impact.

Beginning at 9:00 PM and lasting roughly 2 hours, ALL Banner services will be down as we install an update to the Student module. Forms, Self-Service Banner, Banner printing and all other Banner services will be unavailable during this time. Also at 9:00 PM, various updates will be installed on Banner middle-tier servers.

At 9:30 PM, we will be updating the campus storage cluster which will result in a brief outage to campus home and shared directory services.

Finally, beginning at 9:00, there will be very short outages to our employee email server as we make a configuration change. This only affects those users who have not yet migrated to Gmail.

Computing Services thanks you for your patience and understanding as we perform these critical maintenance activities. As always, if you have any questions, please call the ASU Computing Services Helpdesk at 7741 or contact us via email at computingservices@adams.edu

Thank you!

Computing Services

We are now well into National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Remember, you can always check the Stay Safe Online NCSAM website for more information and tips!

www.staysafeonline.org/ncsam

Cyber security is all about keeping your information safe, including your financial and personal information. In addition to keeping it secure, its important to keep it backed up!

Ever lost your phone or tablet? Ever accidently washed a flash drive, that just happened to have an important copy of a paper?

A backup is a second copy of all your important files – for example, your family photos, home videos, documents and emails.
Instead of storing it all in one place (like your computer), you keep another copy of everything somewhere safe.

All students have free storage space on our Adams State file server, which is backed up by Computing Services every night. In addition to being accessible in the student labs, you can access your files anywhere via a web browser.

Check out our how-to on how to use it:

http://goo.gl/6OSOG6

You can also store multiple copies of your files on Google Drive. All ASU students get 30 GB on their student Google Drive free.

For more information on backups, check out World Backup Day’s website:

http://www.worldbackupday.com/

If you would like more information on any of our services please let us know!

ASU Computing Services
computingservices@adams.edu
719-587-7741

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NCSAM, now in its 11th year, was create to help everyone have the resources to stay safe and secure online.

Cyber security awareness is needed now more than ever! There have been many data breaches in the news recently, credit cards exposed at Target and Home Depot to the Heartbleed and Shellshock vulnerabilities.

So what can you do to protect yourself and our university online? An excellent first step in protecting your privacy is selecting strong passwords. It is important that passwords be long and strong instead of short and sweet, with a combination of numbers, special characters, and lower/uppercase letters.

With all of these requirements, how do you pick a strong password that is easy to remember? Check out this quick video to find out how!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RCsHJfHL_4

Or, check out our how-to for more tips and tricks on choosing and remembering good passwords, including a secure way to store them! (hint, its not on a sticky note)

http://howto.adams.edu/index.php/Password_Tips

Just as important as choosing a strong password is  using unique passwords for EVERY site you visit. That way even if a site does get compromised, that password can’t be used to access your bank, credit cards, or social media sites.

IMPORTANT

It is a violation of ASU policy to share your password with anyone. This includes signing into a computer with your ASU account and allowing someone else to use your workstation. All employees, including work studies, should use their own account.

If you need an account for training or an event Computing Services is happy to set one up for you!

For more tips visit www.staysafeonline.org.

ASU Computing Services

computingservices@adams.edu

719-587-7741

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The following maintenance activities will take place tonight, Thursday October 2nd:

Employee and Tec Classrooms will receive updates to Adobe Reader, Thunderbird, and firefox beginning at 9:00 PM. Users are encouraged to log off but leave their computers on when leaving work today. This will assist the installation of these security patches and minimize any user impact.

Also at 9:00 PM, various updates will be installed on Banner middle-tier servers. Customer impact should be very low, with the potential for 5-10 minute outages as the servers reboot.

After 10:00 PM, there will be brief maintenance done on TEC Classrooms. Customer impact should be minimal.

Computing Services thanks you for your patience and understanding as we perform these critical maintenance activities. As always, if you have any questions, please call the ASU Computing Services Helpdesk at 7741 or contact us via email at computingservices@adams.edu

Thank you!

Computing Services