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 Busy
Summer Leads to Improved Services for New School Year
Let me take this opportunity to welcome
all new faculty, staff and students to Miami as we begin
another academic year. At the same time, I welcome all
of our returning Miami family. As a way of sharing what
is happening in Information Technology Services, let
me point you to our IT Services Annual Report (http://www.muohio.edu/itreport).
This document serves several purposes. It summarizes
last year’s accomplishments, presents the IT Strategic
Plan and the upcoming year’s tactical goals, introduces
the new organizational units and their respective leaders,
and provides an appendix of some technical details and
statistics about IT at Miami.
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|  Introducing
New Members of the IT Leadership Team
We are pleased to introduce the three newest members
of the Information Technology Leadership Team: John
Goerke, Nate Johnson, and Richard Knowles.
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IT Services Announces New Site-licensed
Software - FullShot 8
 FullShot
8, the complete image capture, annotation, and screen
printing program for Windows users, is now available to
faculty, staff and students in the Oxford, Hamilton and
Middletown campuses.
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Summer/Fall 2004 Classroom Technology
Upgrades
This summer has been a busy one for IT Services-Classroom
Services. Over 62 classrooms in 17 different academic
buildings, some in conjunction with the Richard T. Farmer
School of Business, have been or are in the process of
being upgraded with new presentation and electronic equipment.
Another 13 rooms have had reallocated equipment installed.
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ResNet Technology Improvements
Multiple efforts have taken place in the last several
months that directly benefit the network users in the
residence halls.
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Web-based Computer Skills Training Courses Soon to be
Available to Students
As of October 1, 2004, students will be able to use
the VTC web-based training system that provides 200+
courses on computer topics like Mac OS X, FileMaker
Pro, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, PHP and mySQL,
to name a few.
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E-Mail and Calendar Study Underway
As a result of the development of the first IT Services
Strategic Plan this past spring, a “tactical project”
has been undertaken by the division to investigate the
“next generation” of e-mail and calendaring
for the university. This study will result in a recommendation
being forwarded to the Vice President for Information
Technology in the spring of 2005.
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Microsoft Contract Renewal Extends
Availability of Microsoft Software
 Last
minute contract negotiations resulted in Miami signing
a new Microsoft contract this past July that will continue
to provide Microsoft software for all university owned
computers.
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Update on Mac Access to SkillPort and Other SkillPort
Updates
Efforts to Provide Mac Access to SkillPort
Unsuccessful
After this summer's upgrade to SkillPort 6.0, IT Services
again evaluated the possibility of making SkillPort
available via Metaframe for Mac users. What we found
is that SkillPort does not interact well within the
Metaframe environment, so we are not able to host the
SkillPort application on the Metaframe servers. So for
the foreseeable future, SkillPort access will continue
to be limited to Windows users.
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Did you know?
Technology tidbits for Miami faculty, staff and students...
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Banner and BannerWeb Unavailable Sept. 30 - Oct. 4 for
Banner 6 Upgrade
Banner and BannerWeb will be unavailable
to students, faculty and staff from Thursday, Sept.
30 at 10 pm until Monday, Oct. 4 at 7 am. This outage
period will allow IT Services to update the Banner system
from SCT Banner 5 to Banner 6. Banner is the primary
administrative software for Miami University. This upgrade
is a maintenance upgrade resulting in few changes that
will impact the clients.
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 What
You Need to Know About
Windows XP Service Pack 2
Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) is the latest release
of Microsoft’s popular desktop operating system.
SP2 is a significant update with the majority of the new
features focusing on security. In this article we will
explain some of the new features and how to interact with
the improvements.
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Faculty Update: AREA 351 Now
"Advanced Learning Technologies"
AREA 351 has recently undergone a name change to Advanced
Learning Technologies. While our name has changed, our
mission remains the same - faculty are encouraged to contact
Advanced
Learning Technologies with any questions they may
have concerning integrating technology into their teaching.
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New Services Available at the
Print Center
 Expanding
its services to meet the needs and demands of the university
community, the Print Center announces the introduction
of wide format printing along with a variety of new and
improved finishing options.
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Ongoing Implementation
of Network Protection Services
Multiple computer-virus events last year – from
the Blaster to MyDoom -- prompted IT Services to explore
technologies to protect the network and the computers
attached to it.
An alarmingly high number of computers on campus are
infected with some virus or another. In many cases,
these viruses launch attacks on the network and can
cause serious disruptions to service. To address this
growing problem, IT Services conducted a study last
year and established a team to begin implementing solutions.
A few of those solutions are already in place and more
are on the way.
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 New
Apple Subscription Plan for Macintosh Operating System
Upgrades
Apple is offering a new program to higher education to
help us stay current with Apple software. AMP (Apple Maintenance
Program) was designed to provide operating system software
for all university owned Machintosh computers. The AMP
program will begin after the current Technology Assurance
Program (TAP) software license contract expires on September
27, 2004.
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Numbers Help Tell the Story
Curious about the role of technology
in the day-to-day functioning of Miami? Here are some
numbers that help tell the story - this issue highlights
the computing & telecommunications infrastructure
supported by the Computing & Communications Systems
unit of IT Services.
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