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Did someone send you a shared folder in Box and you’re not able to open this, or you are receiving an error “Invalid Login Credentials”? This could be that you are not registered for a Box account.

What is Box?

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Did you know that you can gather information you need very easily by creating a fillable PDF form in Word? 

Examples of PDF fillable forms:

Course Drop form:

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Email spoofing is a technique used in spam and phishing attacks to trick email recipients into thinking a message came from a person or entity that they either know or can trust.  In these spoofing attacks, the sender forges email accounts with a display name of an individual the…

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DotCIO has acquired a Globus file transfer service subscription for use by all active RPI students, faculty, and staff. Globus provides a secure, unified interface to your research data.

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For the upcoming academic year DotCIO will once again be offering Adobe Creative Cloud licensing for faculty and staff work use at a significant discount.  These licenses will be $110 per user per year as opposed to the normal rate of ~$250 per user per year.  The license term is from…

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DotCIO will be offering Rensselaer students an option to purchase Adobe Creative Cloud through Rensselaer at a significant discount over Adobe’s normal student pricing.  Pricing is as posted and subject to change at any time.  Currently licenses purchased through Rensselaer will cost $…

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Last year, the Rensselaer Mediasite instance moved to the cloud, and, as a part of that move, the URL changed for all Mediasite video links. While the old links will still work, they may be slower as the cloud site works to perform a redirect before serving the video.
 

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Do you need to know if someone can attend a gathering, or ask a group about their availability for a monthly meeting, or make a food selection? This can easily be done using Polls in Microsoft Outlook or Teams!

Security Alert

As announced on July 7, RPI was notified by the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) that student data at the NSC was affected by a significant…

Security Alert

RPI has been notified by the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) that student data at the NSC was affected by a significant cybersecurity event involving the MOVEit Transfer tool used by the NSC.  The scope and extent of this cyber-trespass is still under investigation.

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