Archived News

Check out TechNews for March 2009! Read about Google Search Appliance (GSA), the LabStats application, Ken Fansler and the Williams Technology Award, the BlackBerry Enterprise Server run by Systems Support, and more!

Changes to the "isunet" wireless network are scheduled for February 20, 2009. If you use Windows Vista or Windows XP to access "isunet" you must update your computer or you will be unable to connect.

Check out new articles on TechNews, including a new audio podcast interview about computer and network security here at Illinois State University. Read about the Unified Communications pilot project and more!

Some quizzes in Blackboard require the use of Respondus LockDown Browser. Read the Overview and Download Respondus LockDown Browser for Windows and Mac OS X.

Students, faculty, and staff now each have 1GB of space on Datastore! Over the holiday break, the Datastore server underwent a major upgrade. It has new hardware, a new operating system and a new file system. The name has changed from Datastore01 to Datastore, but the old network paths still work. Get the details.

Beginning January 1, the mainframe will allow only secure connections. If you use the mainframe, download and install one of these secure clients: QWS3270 Secure for Windows or tn3270 for Mac.

Firefox users are once again experiencing problems with WebVPN. After logging in to WebVPN in Firefox, you see a blank, white page. To deal with this problem, refer to these work-around instructions.

The campus WINS server addresses change on Friday, November 14. If you are a technical support staff member or a system administrator that makes use of static addressing, you need to manually change your WINS addresses. Computers configured for DHCP will obtain these changes automatically.

Read about what's happening with technology and campus technical support at Illinois State University.

The 12.1.4 update for Office 2008 on Mac OS X fixes a previously reported problem with Entourage 2008 and meeting invites.