On Tuesday 23rd February (during the Reading Week), Information Services will be undertaking an upgrade to the servers that host student network file store (home folders). The upgrade will make the service more resilient and will be undertaken between 6-7:30 on Tuesday morning to inconvenience as few people as possible. All existing files will […]
Category: IT News
IT security – how savvy are you ?
Are you super secure or are there a few areas which need tightened? Information Services have prepared a short IT security quiz in Succeed for staff to take. It should take under 10 minutes to complete with 14 multiple choice/true or false answers. The purpose of the exercise is to discover the general level […]
New semester: new technology – introducing Box for students
Undergraduate and taught postgraduate students at all our campuses now have access to Box, our cloud storage tool which was launched on Monday 18th January 2016. Box offers our students an unlimited cloud based option for storing documents. Using Box makes it very easy to share documents and work collaborative on group projects. To find […]
New Outlook feature – online archives
As part of the New technologies Project, Information Services is introducing an online archive service for email which will provide up to 100GB of archive storage for each member of staff. This enhancement will provide an improved service for archiving your Outlook content, and deliver the ability to access your archived information from any location […]
Office 365 services now restored
Further to our earlier blog posting, Office 365 services have now been restored. Information Services.
Office 365 Service Loss
Microsoft are advising customers in West and North Europe of an interruption to their online services (Office 365) caused by a failure of the login service (for up to date status of the fault see https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/status/). The problem, which started at 0900 today, will affect the ability of students to log in to […]
New public Wi-Fi service for Stirling Campus visitors
Information Services is pleased to announce the launch of a new, free Wi-Fi service for visitors to the campus as part of the New Technologies Project. From Wednesday 25th November the service will be available to any visitors you receive on campus, who are not affiliated with an academic institution with access to eduroam. […]
Cloud computing launch at Stirling – introducing Box
From 20th October 2015, all staff and research students at the University of Stirling have access to Box, our new cloud computing tool. Box brings many benefits including unlimited storage, easier methods to collaborate on documents, and anytime, anywhere, any device access to materials. Departmental introduction sessions are being arranged for October and November. For […]
Improved internet connectivity at Stirling
As of 1st October at 08:00, the University’s Wi-Fi service has been routed over our new and enhanced JANET circuits. Some of you may have noticed an improved service, depending on the device and external web service you are using. The main benefit of this latest step is to provide up to ten times the […]
Stirling becomes a Point of Presence on the JANET network
Information Services is delighted to report that, with significant assistance from JISC, the University has successfully become a Point of Presence on the JANET superfast network. This provides the opportunity for ten times the previous bandwidth plus the long desired resilience of diverse connectivity. This is a significant milestone for the University and opens […]