The Office of Information Technology uses a few different tools to help keep your computer up to date. For Windows users, we have a Windows Update Server that silently installs all security updates for most Microsoft products to your computer once a month. These updates include critical security updates for Windows, Office (Word, Powerpoint, Excel, [...]
Tufts has a site license for Red Hat Enterprise Linux which allows the software to be installed on any university-owned system for non-personal staff/faculty use. UIT hosts a Red Hat Network Satellite Server that provides local mirroring of packages and installation media. This server supports both the current version (version 6) and previous version (version [...]
All new PCs purchased by Tufts will have Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit business edition installed on them. Microsoft Windows XP 32-bit SP3 will continue to be supported on older computers until September of 2014. http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy All new Macintosh computers purchased by Tufts will have Snow Leopard OSX 10.6 installed on them. Tufts will continue to [...]
