Announcements
General
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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 t
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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
News agencies are reporting on a widespread data breach due to a software vulnerability in a third-party file transfer company affecting many organizations across various industries, including education, government, healthcare, and financial services. At this time, we are not aware of
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DotCIO is pleased to announce rolling out new applications in your Microsoft 365 account starting on Tuesday 03/28/2023. The roll-out is seamless and should be available on all accounts by 03/29/2023.
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Multimedia Services is pleased to announce that automated captioning is now provided for all video that is uploaded or recorded to Mediasite.
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With Exchange Online having a 100gb quota, individuals who have email archives are encouraged to move this data into their Exchange Online email. This will provide more efficient access to these emails as well as providing seamless access across multiple devices.
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Box is a cloud file sharing service offered to all students, faculty and staff free of charge.
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Box is a cloud file sharing service that Rensselaer offers to all active students, faculty and staff.Box Overview and Registering for an RPI Box Account
