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Email upgrade October 2005: The faculty/staff e-mail hardware replacement took place on Saturday October 1, 2005. details 10/25/05
Secure
Protocol communication
Please visit http://www.barnard.edu/at/SecureProtocols.html for information on configuring your client applications for secure protocols.
On October 31st, 2005 all insecure protocols will be discontinued, and secure client configurations will be required to access all server applications
If you have any questions, please call the helpdesk at x4-7172. 07/30/05 Please
be advised that eBear, Barnard's web-based online community, will be
unavailable on Saturday, August 6th from 8:30AM to 8:30PM due to
required system maintenance. This downtime will NOT disrupt access to
Barnard e-mail or the Internet 07/25/05
again 07/29/05 The
Barnard College network will be down on Saturday, July 30, from 12 noon
until 6:00 pm. During this time, you will not have access to: email, the
Internet, files stored on Athena, Colleague or Benefactor. 07/22/05 Faculty/staff
e-mail will be unavailable for 6 hours on Saturday July 23 from
11:00AM until 5:00PM for a necessary software upgrade 07/16/05
(and again on July 19) Please be advised that faculty/staff e-mail will be unavailable for 1 hour on Tuesday July 19, from 5:30PM until 6:30PM due to preparatory maintenance for upgrades scheduled on July 23rd, 2005. During this time, there will be no access to your e-mail. Be sure to sign off and exit your email program before 5:30PM. Incoming e-mail will be queued and delivered properly once the system is back on-line. No e-mail will be lost by this process. If you have any questions, please call the Helpdesk at x4-7172. 7/08/05 To Graduated students (This e-mail did NOT go out to 2005 graduates. ) Sent:
Friday, July 08, 2005 In transitioning to a new e-mail system, the Management Information & Network Services department at Barnard College is cleaning up accounts on its student servers. These are accounts of graduated students and they will be terminated on October 31, 2005. Your account has been identified as one of these accounts. If you have any questions, please call the Barnard College Helpdesk at 212-854-7172. Permanent email "forwarding" is available for all Barnard Alumnae. See the Alumnae Online site <http://www.barnard.edu/alum/benefits/index.html for more information 6/29/05 To ACC list
There will be a total MIS outage the weekend of August 6th-7th 2005. It will start the morning of the 6th and probably continue up to Sunday night. <snip> Also, at the same time, we will be shutting down access to any insecure protocols attempting to get to the MIS box.
Alan 6/29/05 To Faculty and staff From:
tsobczak@barnard.edu
06/24/05 To: Incoming students
From:
<help@barnard.edu> Subject: Secure Computing
Welcome to Barnard,
If
you are reading this, then you have successfully activated your Barnard
email account. You should also have activated your Columbia UNI.
If you haven't, go to Columbia's myUNI page: http://www.columbia.edu/acis/tools/index.html 6/22/05
To Community
Barnard College is committed to providing a safe, usable computer environment for all its students, faculty and administrators. One component of our safe computing policy is Anti-Virus scanning of all incoming and outgoing e-mail messages. The software successfully scans e-mail attachments, detects viruses, and removes the infected attachment from the e-mail message. In conjunction with the existing filtering at the server level, we are instituting two additional practices:
(1) Following common practice and recommended security guidelines, Barnard College will block the transmission of the following file extensions through our e-mail systems: ade adp app bas bat chm cmd com cpl crt csh dll exe fxp hlp hta ini ins isp js jse ksh lib lnk mda mdb mde mdt mdw msc msi msp mst ocx ops pcd pif prg reg scr sct shb shs sys vb vbe vbs wsc wsf wsh xsl
These extensions were chosen because of their susceptibility to virus infection and the ease with which Windows will execute these files. (2) In order to ease the burden on the e-mail servers and user mailboxes, Barnard College will discard all incoming messages that are found to be infected or have met the system's threshold criteria for spam. Messages whose content has been deleted through the filtering process will no longer appear in your Inbox. To maximize your protection against virus infection, be sure to install Symantec (Norton) Anti-Virus on your machine, available for free download from Columbia at www.columbia.edu/acis/software/nav/, and keep it up-to-date.
Further information about this policy is available at www.barnard.edu/mins. Additional information about protecting your computer from viruses can be found at www.barnard.edu/at/virus.html. If you have any questions, please call the Helpdesk at x4-7172.
6/21/05
To Community
The
core router for the College's campus network requires a necessary upgrade. Thank you for your patience and cooperation. 6/17/05 To Faculty and staff
From:
tsobczak@barnard.edu
Please be advised that over the course of the next few months, improvements will be made to the Barnard College e-mail system. Student e-mail services have already been upgraded and the faculty/staff e-mail services are next on the schedule.
Faculty/staff e-mail will be unavailable for 1 hour on Tuesday July 19, from 5:30PM until 6:30PM for necessary maintenance and for 6 hours on Saturday July 23 from 11:00AM until 5:00PM for a software upgrade.
The faculty/staff e-mail hardware replacement is scheduled for Saturday October 1, 2005. E-mail will be unavailable for 24 hours, from 12 Midnight until 11:59PM. During this time incoming e-mail will be queued and delivered properly once the system is back on-line. No e-mail will be lost in this process.
If you have any questions, please call the Helpdesk at x4-7172. 5/25/05
To Students
5/23/05
To all graduated Barnard students with inactive accounts (not used
since January 1st) To:
Students
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