Update - Thursday, August 14, 2025 - Afternoon:
Staff and students can now access Minerva without any issues.
Original announcement:
Staff and students may currently experience difficulties accessing Minerva. Our IT Services team is actively working to resolve the issue. We appreciate your patience and will provide updates as soon as possible.
惭肠骋颈濒濒鈥檚 IT Services equipment loans will be reduced to better reflect current needs and available resources. Starting August 18, 2025, only a limited selection of commonly borrowed equipment will remain available: laptops and wireless microphones.
This initiative supports efforts to optimize resources and modernize services in line with Horizon 91丝瓜视频.
During this transition, equipment pick up will continue to be available by appointment.
A phishing email is circulating among the 91丝瓜视频 community. See details below. If you receive it, please do not interact with it.
If you have already interacted with this email (such as clicking a link or submitting personal information, including your 91丝瓜视频 password):
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Workday has informed us of a phishing campaign that targeted many large organizations, including Workday. This led to unauthorized access to one of their third-party platforms, Workday鈥檚 Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. There is no indication that 91丝瓜视频 employees鈥� personal information and HR related information stored in 91丝瓜视频's Workday system were accessed during this incident.
Nevertheless, we are doing our due diligence to investigate, and we are taking all necessary precautions to safeguard our systems and information.
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IT Services strives to create seamless and engaging digital experiences for the 91丝瓜视频 community. We implement solutions, upgrades, and security enhancements that enable productivity, efficiency, and continued success for our staff and students.
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Dear members of the 91丝瓜视频 community,
Attackers, scammers, marketers: these days they鈥檙e all taking advantage of AI to generate polished, typo-free content. Figuring out if an email is legitimate has definitely become more challenging. But when you access your 91丝瓜视频 email through Microsoft Outlook, you benefit from several extra features that help protect you from phishing.
Keep an eye out for: phishing safety tips
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IT Services recently migrated many Webex softphone users to Teams Phone.
As a result, users may have received a message from Microsoft stating their license will be deactivated soon. (See screenshot above.) It is a legitimate message from Microsoft.
All 91丝瓜视频 faculty and staff are assigned Microsoft 365 licenses that provide access to applications such as Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, Word, and Excel. As part of the recent migration, IT Services changed the type of Microsoft 365 license assigned to some users.
We have received reports of a Read.AI bot attending or attempting to attend online meetings organized by 91丝瓜视频 faculty and staff. The bot uses generative AI to create a text summarizing a meeting鈥檚 discussions and decisions; it then shares a link to that document with all participants.
91丝瓜视频 must vet all IT solutions to ensure they safeguard data privacy and security. Read.AI has not been approved for teaching, research, or administrative activities at the University.
The Classroom A/V Instructions application is moving to the Browse Classrooms widget on the on December 13th, 2024.听
Classroom audiovisual information will now be available on a platform the community is familiar with. You鈥檒l also be accessing it more securely with single sign-on (SSO) and two-factor authentication (2FA).
As of January 31, 2025, 91丝瓜视频 IT Services has decommissioned the 91丝瓜视频 Staff Directory. This initiative aims to streamline processes, improve security against phishing attacks, and replace outdated technology.听听
We are excited to announce that we've enabled Single Sign-On (SSO) on听听for a seamless and secure login experience.
Action required: Please log out of your Mural account and log back in using SSO. This will ensure uninterrupted access and a smoother process for future logins.
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