Beginning on December 28th, UMKC faculty and staff email boxes will be migrated to Microsoft Exchange 2010. We’ve put together some important information you need to know about the migration.
Continue reading ‘Exchange 2010 Upgrade for Faculty and Staff Mailboxes Starts December 28th’ »
Information Services has received notice that several UMKC students have taken fraudulent checks to local banks in relation to an email scam.
Continue reading ‘Warning! Email Scam Targeting UMKC Students’ »
Over the last few months, Information Services has made significant improvements to student computer lab spaces on campus, as well as to the Remote Labs environment. Continue reading ‘IS Lab Updates’ »
Students who are new to the online course environment may not be prepared for the differences between a face-to-face course and a class that is completely online. To assist students in making this transition as smooth as possible, staff of Information Access have created the UMKC Online Readiness Tool. Continue reading ‘IA Support for Student Online Learning Success’ »
Coming soon – Exchange 2010!
The University system is currently in the process of upgrading the Exchange email system to Microsoft Exchange 2010. Continue reading ‘Exchange 2010 Upgrade Coming Soon (Faculty and Staff Email)’ »
Some on-campus computers are displaying Microsoft Forefront virus warnings today, Thursday, July 21st. These warnings are legitimate, but are false-positives, due to a new virus definition file that detects an innocuous file as a potentially harmful one. Clicking “Clean Computer” on the message is recommended.
If you have questions about the legitimacy of any virus warning message, other computer pop-up or email, please contact the UMKC IS Call Center for assistance.
MyHR, a key tool available for university faculty and staff, will be upgraded with new features and functionality from 6pm on Thursday, June 30th through 8am on Tuesday, July 5th. During the upgrade period, MyHR will not be available. What does the upgrade mean for you?
In response to feedback from students, we’ve developed a one-stop resource for all things related to Outlook Live at UMKC. Continue reading ‘Introducing the new Outlook Live for Students site’ »
Recent estimates report there are over 50 million blogs on the Web, and that number is growing every day. Sifting through so much information to get at what’s important to you can be overwhelming, but as the Web evolves, so do the tools and services used to access content.
The old way of accessing information required visitors go to each site one at a time and look for new content. If that site doesn’t have any new content, visitors have wasted time and may not go back again.
This is where RSS feeds come into play. Continue reading ‘New Information Services RSS Feeds’ »
Remote collaboration is becoming more and more popular, but if you’ve ever tried to send a colleague a large attachment via email, you may have encountered a size limit issue. Email attachments sent through Exchange are limited to 50MB, while the student Outlook Live system limits attachments to 25MB.
To alleviate this problem, UMKC Information Services has made available the Digital Dropbox. UMKC’s Digital Dropbox is an online tool that allows users to share files easily without the size restriction of an email system. It even allows for contacts outside the UMKC system to retrieve files shared by UMKC associates.
Visit the Digital Dropbox Web page to learn more about this exciting collaboration tool!
