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Replacing the Responsible Use Policy
Posted by Kevin Murphy in News, Sensitive Information, Service Catalog on April 6, 2012
The Tufts Responsible Use Policy will be replaced by the Information Stewardship policy on May 7th, 2012. The Information Stewardship Policy (ISP) outlines the actions all members of the Tufts community are expected to follow when working with institutional data and systems. To read more information about this policy, please visit the Information Stewardship & [...]
Tufts Guest Wireless Now Available
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Network & Connectivity, News, Service Catalog, Wireless Internet Access on April 4, 2012
Tufts University has expanded the existing wireless network to guests. The guest wireless service will allow visitors and guest to gain access to Tufts wireless service without advanced registration and/or delay for activation. The Tufts-Guest wireless network is provided for visitors and short-term guests and has limited access to the Internet and internal Tufts resources. [...]
Desktop videoconferencing upgrade
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Installation & Configuration, News, Service Catalog, Software, Videoconferencing on March 28, 2012
Cisco systems, which provides desktop videoconferencing services to Tufts University has upgraded their Movi client and changed the name. The new product is now named Cisco Jabber. The new Cisco Jabber client promises collaboration across multiple devices, including Windows, Apple, and Android. Alongside the currently available desktop clients for Windows and Apple, there are apps [...]
Facilities Service Request System
Posted by Kevin Murphy in News, Service Catalog, Teaching, Learning & Research on March 27, 2012
On Monday, March 26, 2012, the Facilities Services Department will no longer require paper Interdepartmental Requisition (IDRs). We will be replacing the paper form of the IDRs with the electronic Online Service Requests. The Online Service Request form functions both as a maintenance work request and an event set-up request. A unique computer-generated number allows [...]