This email is a reminder that student (UG and TPG) email accounts will be moving from the SquirrelMail system to Outlook Web App THIS WEEK. The changeover date is Wed 30th January. On Wed 30th, there may be some delays in incoming email arriving in your new OWA inbox as we transfer routing between […]
Category: IT News
Thistle Chambers: interruption to network services – now Friday 25 January
**UPDATE** We apologise that the advertised work to the Thistle Chambers network did not happen yesterday. Our service provider has subsequently informed us that the necessary work will take place today, Friday 25 January, between 13:00 and 17:00. Information Services has been advised by our service provider that it will be necessary to interrupt […]
Succeed training for Instructors
eLD will be running training sessions for staff who will be building and running courses in Succeed (instructors) over the next couple of weeks. This training is an introduction to Succeed for staff who have not used the system previously (or have made little use) Four Succeed training sessions have been arranged on the […]
Interruption to network connectivity in multiple locations, Tuesday 29th January
In order to carry out a number of maintenance tasks on an essential piece of network equipment, there will be a brief disruption to all network services, shortly after 07:30 on Tuesday 29th January. It is expected to last for approximately 5 minutes. During the outage, users in the following locations will be unable to […]
Warning about “phishing”
There seems to be an increase in “phishing” attempts as we approach the holiday period. This is where an attempt is made to capture your network username and password by sending a fake email as in the example below. Please be very careful not to open up a link contained in an email and enter […]
Staff – get ready for winter: set up your PC for working from home
Now that the snowy weather is upon us, you may have the opportunity to work from home. Remote desktop allows you to access your work PC from your home computer so that you can have access to all of the software you need to do your job. A bit of forward planning is required […]
Module Registration opens 3rd December 9am – please do not login to the portal unless essential
We are approaching one of the many busy times for the student system with Student Module Registration opening at 9.00am on Monday 3rd December. A number of technical measures have been put in place to help process student requests as quickly as possible. However, as a precaution, we would be grateful if staff could […]
Go live date for new student email system set
Further to our previous posting about the new student email system, Outlook Web App (part of Microsoft’s cloud based Office365 offering), we are pleased to confirm that the new system will go live during the winter vacation on 30 January 2013. We now have a pilot group of c60 students live on the system […]
Staff: donate your old desktop printer to charity
SEND YOUR OLD DESKTOP PRINTER TO CHARITY BEFORE IT RUNS OUT OF TONER/INK Now that the staff print system has been successfully rolled out across the university, you may have been wondering what to do with your old desktop printer. The Staff Print Project Board has agreed to a one-time drive of collecting printers […]
Open User Forum (Stirling Campus) – Monday 26th November 2012
There will be an Information Services Open User Forum on Monday 26th November at 11.00, Cottrell 2A13, Stirling Campus. Please note the change of time for this meeting to 11.00. All are welcome. Library representatives in Academic Schools and Administrative Departments, along with Students’ Union representatives are especially encouraged to attend. Professor David […]