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UNH IT Reviews the UNH Computer Purchasing Program
July 10, 2019, by UNH IT Staff
The UNH Computer Purchasing Program was first introduced in January 2019 and provides students, faculty, and staff with educational discounts on computers and tech supplies.
Over the past six months, the UNH community experienced a paradigm shift from a brick-and-mortar computer store to an online shopping experience. With this switch, self-service shopping for UNH department computers has become a mainstay and reliance on direct contact with an off-campus vendor is required. The computer store, its inventory, and staff are missed. In-person conversations regarding computing requirements, on-site hardware repair, central receiving, and the unknown of Lenovo computers is not just about process changes, but a true cultural shift for all of us.
Due to the new paradigm, UNH IT, working with an advisory team from multiple campus departments, has developed appropriate hardware and software standards, performs requirement reviews for non-standard requests, manages vendor...
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New Features and Improvements to Box@UNH
July 9, 2019, by UNH IT Staff
There have been several improvements to Box @ UNH, including new features and updates to its functionality.
Box Feed: Box Feed is a new feature introduced in the Box @ UNH web interface on http://unh.box.com. Box analyzes the files, folders, and collaborators you and your team interacts with the most to show you the most relevant activity on your data. Your feed can be customized to sort data differently, or hide activity that you don’t want to see, or don’t want others to see.
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Security Alert: BlueKeep Campus-Wide Remediation Actions
July 9, 2019, by UNH Information Security Services
Overview
On May 14, 2019, Microsoft announced a zero-day vulnerability impacting some computers with older Microsoft operating systems called BlueKeep along with patches to address the vulnerability. BlueKeep has the potential to be very dangerous as it allows an unauthorized user to connect to and control a vulnerable device, like a desktop or a laptop, without the involvement or knowledge of the device’s user. This capability means that an attack exploiting this vulnerability is “wormable”...
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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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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...
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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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