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SmartAuth for WebCat Coming this Fall
April 25, 2019, by UNH IT Staff
SmartAuth Registration begins May 1, 2019. Required use to log into Webcat begins August 12, 2019. SmartAuth is USNH’s multi-factor authentication service that acts as an additional layer of protection for your digital identity. Improving the security of your digital identity provides more protection for UNH data, systems, and services.
Multi-factor authentication, which is also called 2-step verification, basically means you need to verify your identity using more than one method. Today, when you log in to Webcat using your UNH username and password, you are providing verification via one method. With SmartAuth in place, you will need to provide your username and password, and then use another verification method to confirm your identity, which can include using an app on your phone to get a code or press a button or receiving a passcode via a phone call.
Most people are already using multi-factor authentication for electronic banking, email, or social...
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Unplugged: Seacoast Digital Fast Kicks Off This Weekend
April 25, 2019, by UNH IT Staff
Do screens rule your life? Recent studies point to the links between excessive screen time and obesity, irregular sleep, behavioral problems, and impaired social skills (source: https://www.health.state.mn.us/people/tvviewing/index.html). We all romanticize for the days of holing up in a lakeside cabin to enjoy birdsongs, fresh air, and dense novels. But is pulling the plug on laptops, televisions, and mobile devices really the key to a happier, healthier life...
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Lean and Six Sigma Courses Count Towards MPA
April 25, 2019, by UNH IT Staff
The Carsey School of Public Policy offers a Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree program at UNH. This program offers students to acquire the skills necessary to excel in nonprofit and government management, including “the tools of leadership, program evaluation, budgets, planning, personnel, collective bargaining, and policy analysis.”
Recently, the Carsey School announced it will allow those who acquired a Lean Green and Lean Black Belt Certification through UNH or the State of New...
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The Eyes Have It: Pomy App for Mac OS and Windows
April 17, 2019, by UNH IT Staff
The average computer user blinks seven times a minute, the normal rate is twenty times per minute. This can cause Digital Eye Strain (DES).
As anyone who spends their days peering into a computer screen for 6-8 hours can attest, the struggle to keep your eyes from feeling strained and bleary is real. In fact, at the end of most days, it feels like we stared directly into a solar eclipse for an extended time, and find ourselves venturing to our cars in a catatonic, hypnotized state. ...
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UNH IT Introduces New Antivirus for Macs
March 18, 2019, by UNH IT Staff
UNH introduces ESET - antivirus for institutionally-owned Macs.
On March 8, UNH IT rolled out a new antivirus for institutionally-owned Macs called ESET. The previous vendor – Microsoft – discontinued use and development of their System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) 2012 (effective March 2019) and partnered with ESET to provide the new antivirus program to be an equivalent of SCEP. According to its website, ESET provides comprehensive Endpoint Protection for macOS with low system...
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New Report Phish Feature in Outlook Allows for Easy Reporting on Malicious Emails
March 18, 2019, by UNH IT Staff
Phishing is a scam by which an Internet user is duped (as by a deceptive e-mail message) into revealing personal or confidential information which the scammer can use illicitly. (Source: Merriam-Webster)
UNH IT is currently migrating all faculty and staff over to Exchange Online, a process that will finish in Fall 2019. Once migrated, many new features will appear in Outlook. Chief among them, Report Phish makes it super easy to report malicious emails. This function is available for...
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SEED Program Announces 2019 Collection Dates
February 18, 2019, by UNH IT Staff
The Safe Electronic Equipment Disposal (SEED) program provides for the disposal of University equipment containing data storage including computers, mobile devices, portable drives, and hard drives. The UNH recycling vendor is certified in data protection and wiping to meet the requirements of USNH policy so that the device owner need not wipe prior to equipment disposal.
All scheduled collections are on Tuesday. Requests to add equipment to a SEED collection must be submitted the previous...
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Xtender Upgrade Provides New Features and Functionality
February 14, 2019, by UNH IT Staff
Xtender Upgrade Provides New Features and Functionality
Xtender is getting a facelift! Over the next several months, UNH IT will upgrade ApplicationXtender (AX) from version 7 to version 16.3, as vendor support for the current version is ending. The latest version of AX is browser-independent (users are no longer tied to Internet Explorer), mobile-friendly (works on phones and tablets using the UNH VPN), and provides many modern features, which are listed below. Please check the Xtender Upgrade...
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UNH Establishes Digital Strategy
February 14, 2019, by UNH IT Staff
On January 23, 2019, the Digital Governance Steering Committee approved a digital strategy for the university. The strategy sets out guiding principles and performance objectives that will help prioritize digital initiatives and measure their success.
The next steps will be for the Digital Governance Team to work with the broader university community to define what digital success means for the organization.
Guiding principles for the UNH Digital Strategy.
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Apple Introduces Screen Time Feature for iOS Devices
February 1, 2019, by UNH IT Staff
American adults spend an average of 11 hours a day looking at a screen.
We’ve always been fascinated by screens ever since the advent of television. Over the years, they’ve varied greatly in size, but portable devices forever changed the amount of time we spend endlessly gazing into an electronic abyss, interacting with media, commenting on social media posts, and writing and responding to texts, emails, and instant messages.
According to Marketwatch.com, American adults spend more...
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Happening Now: Faculty/Staff Exchange Online Migration
February 1, 2019, by UNH IT Staff
Exchange Online provides faculty and staff with 100GB quota.
Since November 2018, UNH IT has been migrating all UNH faculty and staff email mailboxes to Exchange Online, an effort that will continue into fall semester until all 6500 faculty/staff mailboxes are moved.
The migration to Exchange Online will increase mailbox quotas to 100GB, and provides for easier collaboration between faculty, staff, and students, as everyone will be in the same email environment. In addition, this move...
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