Using Adobe Acrobat Features Included in Acrobat Standard vs Acrobat Pro Adobe Acrobat is your one-stop shop to view, create, manipulate, print, and manage PDF files. They offer a premium version, Acrobat Pro, however, the features you get with the standard version are more than enough for [...]
Microsoft Power BI Introduction to Power BI Microsoft Power BI is a collection of software services, apps, and connectors that work together to turn your unrelated sources of data into coherent, visually immersive, and interactive insights. Power BI is an interactive software product that can turn [...]
Akarsh Kosanam (center) and Manoj Vuppuluri (right) well into a 24-hour hackathon. Wanted: Wizard skills. Water bottles. Working Internet. Worthy cause. Last month three of the graduate assistant (GA) software developers in Technology Services - Student Affairs participated in TAMUhack 2022, a 24-hour challenge to develop innovative solutions to real-world problems. The student-run [...]
Onboarding Training Path for New DSA Employees Day one gets overwhelming to many employees. They all need a one-stop shop where all their queries are answered. This training document will act as a roadmap for the new employee and unravel the hassle of the first day. Follow [...]
Google Drive Sharing Files Made Easier Google Drive has made collaborating and sharing files as convenient as possible. Need to send files through Microsoft Outlook or Teams? Skip the step of downloading the file, and upload it straight from the Drive. Sharing directly through Google Drive frees [...]
Understand How to Report Phishing Attempts Your Content Goes Here In February 2020, Indian TV journalist Nidhi Razdan announced that she was leaving her 21-year-old job with New Delhi based English TV news channel NDTV 24*7 to be an associate professor at Harvard University, or so she thought. [...]
Microsoft Whiteboard Collaborative Brainstorming and Planning Microsoft Whiteboard is an efficient tool for collaborating during meetings. Whiteboard is used in conjunction with Microsoft Teams to get the most productivity from Teams. Its most basic form, it is used to communicate notes, drawings, and ideas via chat or video [...]
Phone Systems at Texas A&M University Phone Systems The resources given below will help DSA departments plan for their phone needs and stay on supported phone systems. Texas A&M Division of IT actively supports two phone systems that can be found on-campus: Current Cisco VoIP Original Polycom VoIP. The [...]
Managing Distribution Lists for Your Department in MS Outlook We all know how important receiving emails can be to daily business and student interaction. Technology Services - Student Affairs manages more than 500 distribution lists for the Division of Student Affairs. While supervisors can request staff and students be initially added [...]
With the cameras rolling during production of the 1942 classic movie Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart improvised when he delivered his iconic line to Ingrid Bergman, “Here’s looking at you, kid.” Eighty years later there are many more cameras rolling. Much of what they capture is also improvised. A video security system with more than 900 cameras [...]