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FINAL PHASE: MOVE TO ONE ACCOUNT
For those of you with double InternetIDs and e-mail accounts (one for your staff status and one for your student status), the final phase of combining InternetIDs will begin soon. People with double InternetIDs will be notified via e-mail about how to combine them. This final phase of notifications and combining will take place over the next 6 weeks. More information will soon be available on-line on the OIT Help page: http://www.umn.edu/adcs/help/

CRITICAL SERVER IDENTIFICATION
OIT Security would like to thank all who have been coordinating the critical server identification for their departments! If you still need to identify critical servers, here's the link: http://www.umn.edu/oit/security/criticalserv.shtml

FILEMAKER DATABASE SECURITY NOTICE
A security flaw was recently discovered within all versions of FileMaker. A shared, multi-user FileMaker Pro database will send the entire password list to any computer that attempts to access the database; there is reason to believe that it may be relatively easy for a knowledgeable hacker to decipher the password list. More details and solutions from OIT security at: http://www.umn.edu/oit/security/filemakernotice.shtml

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911 SERVICE AT THE U
911 services at the University TC campus will be upgraded in June to meet national compliance standards. The integration with metro 911 will reduce confusion and provide more accurate dispatch information. Pay phones and off campus services (Centrex lines with the 627 telephone numbers) will now be included in the E911 information.

UPDATE: APPLETALK AND IPX ABATEMENT
AppleTalk and IPX abatements progress throughout campus. The project is looking for an early completion by August 2003 in preparation for the New Generation Network to begin in September. 180 interfaces have now been removed. 457 IPX and 387 Appletalk interfaces remain active. More details available at: http://www.umn.edu/oit/appleipx/

WIRELESS PHONES AND CORDLESS SETS
Wireless telephones and Cordless sets are under examination for future introduction to the TC campus. Voice Over IP telephone service is being tested, but the high cost of $500+ per set makes it a distance reality at this time. Cordless sets will be available for single line sets soon. Look for information about them in an upcoming edition of OIT's Information Technology Newsletter.

MAY 15 DEADLINE: ENHANCED VOICE MAIL SERVICE
Enhanced Voice Mail service testing has concluded. Free change orders will be accepted through May 15 only. More at: http://www.umn.edu/nts/

MAY 15 DEADLINE: TELEPHONE UPGRADE REPLACEMENTS
Missed telephone replacements for the Telephone System Upgrade have now been completed. Standard replacement charges will apply to any replaced after May 15, 2003. If you still have an old STE with TAP which may have been missed call, 1-HELP by May 15.

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ONLINE HIPPA TRAINING SUCCEEDS
To comply with new federal rules governing protection of private medical information, the U was required to train nearly 19,000 staff, students, and volunteers and to complete this training by April 14. In 8 weeks, we delivered 45,678 training courses and trained over 95% of our workforce online. This successful effort would have been difficult to achieve without taking advantage of the online instructional infrastructure that OIT provides . . . [MORE] HIPPA and JAWS' role

SUMMER COMPUTER TRAINING
Summer camp is a great way to spend some intensive time learning new technology skills. Attend a camp on web design and development, or a camp designed to help faculty implement chosen teaching strategies with WebCT or produce media-rich learning activities. If summer camp isn't for you, short courses will also continue to be available, including accelerated courses for those who are quick learners. See http://www.umn.edu/uttc

NEW SAS COURSES
New SAS courses will be offered this summer based on training materials from SAS Institute. The courses include material useful for SAS Base Programming Certification. For details on these and other statistics courses, see http://www.umn.edu/uttc. SAS software is available through the ADCS Software License Program at http://www.umn.edu/software

SHORT COURSE SCHEDULE ONLINE
The Summer 2003 short course schedule is online. In person, mail, and fax registration begins May 7. An Acrobat PDF version of the schedule will be available soon. To access course categories and schedules, registration forms, and payment information, see http://www.umn.edu/uttc

MICROSOFT LICENSES FOR DEPARTMENTAL PURCHASES
ADCS is now licensing, to departments, a wide array of Microsoft products at incredible prices. We have a complete listing of products and prices online, and you can also place your Microsoft License order online and charge it to your CUFS number. Purchasing a license entitles you to . . . [MORE]

11 TEL GRANT WINNERS
Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) grant winners announced eleven projects will be funded through the 2002-03 TEL Grant Program administered by the TEL Council and managed through ADCS and the Digital Media Center, Office of Information Technology. See http://dmc.umn.edu/grants/2002/awards02.shtml

RESULTS AVAILABLE: FACULTY TECHNOLOGY SURVEY
In the spring of 2002 staff members from the Digital Media Center, Office of Information Technology and four colleges surveyed faculty members to determine the impact educational technology is having in these colleges. Read a report about the results (in PDF format) at http://dmc.umn.edu/surveys/faculty/faculty-survey-2002.pdf

05/08/03: TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY FORUM
Associate Professor Doug Ernie and Digital Media Center Information Technology Design Specialist Lance Cunningham will lead a discussion about The UNITE Program: Teaching Engineers with Technology at the May 8 forum meeting. See http://dmc.umn.edu/forum/forum.shtml#5

NEW TECHNOLOGY-ENHANCED LEARNING SHORT COURSES
Instructors who want to teach with technology can take new or redesigned ADCS/DMC courses this summer: Designing Course Web Sites: Implementing Teaching Strategies with WebCT; Designing Learning Objects: Producing Media-Rich Learning Activities; and Creating Course Web Sites: Building an Online Learning Community. See http://training.micro.umn.edu/ShortCourses/ClassList.cfm#16

DELL COMPUTER SYSTEMS: AGGREGATED VOLUME DISCOUNT
Because of budget cuts, ADCS/OIT and the Purchasing Department have been looking for a way to cut costs of technology purchases. We discovered one way is aggregated purchasing. Based on configurations created by CLA and ADCS, ADCS/OIT has been able to make a deal with Dell for department, faculty, staff, and student purchases through Techmart . . . [MORE]

REMINDER: SOFTWARE SALES AT UCS
University Computer Services now provides onsite software sales for U of M students, faculty, staff, and departments at the UCS location. This operation continues the service formerly provided by the Computer Bookstore retail operation. For more information visit the UCS website at http://www.umn.edu/ucs