A New Mac Management Tool for DSA The Division of Student Affairs (DSA) is transitioning from Centrify to Jamf as it’s primary supported Mac management tool. What is happening? Jamf will be enrolled on all OSX and iOS devices allowing us to enhance the level of service provided to Mac [...]
Best Practices for Sanitizing Electronic Devices
Alternate Work Location Resources (Working from Home) Windows 10 Mobile Device Personally Owned Device Collaboration Resources Division of Student Affairs (DSA) employees have many resources available to them from the University and Division to remain productive when working from alternate locations such as from home. Do [...]
Technology Services - Student Affairs regularly updates DSA computers as well as IT infrastructure and services to maintain a secure and dependable environment. DSA Computers (Windows workstations, laptops & tablets) are updated and automatically restarted during standing maintenance windows, which are typically on the fourth weekend of every month on Saturdays and Sundays between [...]
Examples of account compromises are on the rise. Weak passwords are one culprit. Phishing (social engineering) scams are also rampant. Even programs such as key loggers which record the keystrokes you type and then relay the information to a third party who extracts out the resource and credentials are common. In this day and age, [...]
Recently, we helped one of our departments (who shall remain nameless) identify an external vendor to help them with a website design. We were in the middle of an active development cycle and didn't have time to do the project for them. And so we were acting in the capacity of a consultant, whose responsibility [...]
There's a great new service offered by TAMU Libraries. They have digitized the entire collection of Aggieland yearbooks and put them online, in searchable format with a nice browsing interface. Looking through the old yearbooks, reading their editorials and letters, one can get the sense of how our predecessors lived in Aggieland. Browsing the first [...]
Central IT recently launched a new IT site (http://it.tamu.edu/). This is a complete redesign of the old AVPIT suite of sites into a clean, slick, visually appealing, completely responsive website, designed with usability in mind. The communications team really outdid themselves with this one. I especially like the Services "A to Z" link which allows [...]
This is a very intriguing video about the consequences of smarter and more numerous robots. The end of the video, where the author outlines an argument for those industries which will be hit the hardest, is scary.
It seems like a pretty basic question. But we've learned through experience that classifying our work into different categories allows us to plan our time more efficiently and document what we do resulting in greater transparency. So, what is work? Work is defined as anything that expends human resources. In IT, we divide the work [...]