Outdated e-mail addresses to be deleted July 1
Years ago, official e-mail addresses at K-State ended in
@ksuvm.ksu.edu and @ksu.ksu.edu.
In recent years, these outdated forms of K-Staters' e-mail addresses have mostly been used by spam mailers.
On July 1, these e-mail addresses will be deleted to avoid excessive spam.
Other forms of obsolete K-State addresses will be deleted as well,
such as @abc.ksu.ksu.edu and so forth.
This change does not affect @ksu.edu, @k-state.edu, and
departmental (@dept.ksu.edu) e-mail addresses.
Faculty who have older e-mail addresses referenced in professional journals can
request that these be kept, with mail forwarded to their official K-State e-mail address.
To request this, send e-mail to
aliashelp@ksu.edu and specify your
eID and the addresses you want retained.
—J. Bell, Computing and Network Services
Summer IT projects at K-State
K-Staters leaving for the summer should notice several IT changes when
they get back in August.
One big milestone is the July 1 deadline for removing academic, research, and personal use
from K-State's IBM mainframe (also known as KSUVM to long-time K-Staters).
This will reserve the IBM platform for administrative computing only. (See the
Sept. 30, 2003
news article for details.)
Other K-State IT projects in the works this summer include:
- Central e-mail enhancement project
- Spam-filtering on the central e-mail system
- K-State Online upgrade to version 5.0
- K-State Enterprise Portal
- Encompass bridge for K-State Libraries
- LASER project
- Enterprise Project Management
- Online student services (re-design of websites)
- Revamp of eID policies and eProfile webpage
- Universal design documentation for mediated courses
- Cable TV and broadband cable modem service to Jardine
Upgrades of applications/hardware include:
- University computing labs
- Remedy Help Desk Solution
- HRIS Upgrade to PeopleSoft HCM 8.8 sp1
- Financial Aid Federal Regulatory Update Project 2004/05
- RETORIC Project - Phase 1
- DARS Web
- Edify to Version 8.0 and to Windows 2000
- CatPack upgrade to version 8.0
Projects that will be in the planning stage include:
- Network Operations Center
- Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Reports (ETDR)
- IBM decommissioning
- KATS/Edify decommissioning
- Oracle Financials for Facilities decommissioning
This is just the short list of ongoing projects. K-State IT staff
will be busy working to improve systems, functionality, web interfaces,
and more over the summer months.
Training will also be provided on IT security, K-State Online, and the
LASER project.
Stay tuned for updates on these projects.
—the editors, InfoTech Tuesday
Central e-mail to have new look and features this fall
K-State has begun educating the campus about upcoming changes to the
central e-mail system. The first notice about the project appeared in a
May 4 article in InfoTech
Tuesday. A mass e-mail was sent to K-Staters today to
inform them about the project and that central e-mail will have new
features and a new look when classes resume this fall. The committee will
provide updates about the project throughout the summer and fall.
—Marketing Committee, K-State E-Mail Enhancement Project
Free CD with Sasser patches still available
Last week, the Information Technology Assistance Center handed out more than
230 CDs with removal tools for the Sasser worm and others. The free CD includes:
Sasser removal tool
Symantec AntiVirus 8.1
Norton AntiVirus Update file
Internet Explorer 6.0 Service Pack 1
K-State's recommended security tool pack (includes SpyBot 1.2, DCOMbobulator, etc.)
More CDs are available to K-Staters. Stop by 313 Hale Library to pick up a copy.
—A. Cobb, Information Technology Assistance Center
"Cool Rules" PowerPoint online
from VPAST/CITAC lecture
The April 20 VPAST/CITAC lecture "Cool Rules!" presented by Bert Biles,
Vicki Clegg, and Dennis Franz is available online via iTAC's
Resources page.
The link is at the bottom of the "Resources for Faculty" section.
—the editors, InfoTech Tuesday
| Cool IT tool: Sort the
Windows Start menu |
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By default, Windows adds newly installed programs to the bottom of the
Start menu. If you'd rather alphabetize them by name,
click Start, All Programs, then
right-click anywhere in the Programs menu and select "Sort by Name".
—from TechBytes "Cool Tools"
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| Website worth watching |
World Press Freedom Day
World Press Freedom Day was May 3. To understand the
"freedom of the press" issue that is confronting K-State,
it may be helpful to review the
Constitution of the U.S. and First Amendment rights.
Check out these websites:
Send site suggestions to TellTuesday@ksu.edu.
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