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WebSurveyor Data To Be Removed by June 15, 2008

The WebSurveyor application will cease to work on June 15, 2008. After that point no data can be restored from WebSurveyor.

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Things To Do Before Summer

Are you ready for summer? How about your computer and computing accounts?

Information Technology would like to share some tips to keep your computer and accounts operational over the summer to ensure a successful start next fall.

Please follow the links below for further information:

Take care of your computing accounts: Things to do before summer

Changes to JMU E-mail System

JMU will make changes to the JMU E-mail System on Monday April 14.
Click the following link for information about this change.

Login with your eID and password will be required.

Wireless in Residence Halls

Wireless access has been completed in the lounge areas for Greek Row in the following locations:
Willow
Spruce
Cedar
Magnolia
Delta Gamma
Alpha Phi
Alpha Sigma Alpha
Sigma Kappa
Alpha Sigma Tau

Open Invitation to Labs & Classrooms Technology Advisory Group

The next meeting of the Labs & Classrooms Technology Group (LCTAG) will be held on February 29, 2008 at 9:00 a.m. in Carrier 301. This meeting is open to all faculty and staff that reserve, teach, or support teaching in labs and technology classrooms. Refreshments will be served.

Following is our tentative agenda for the meeting. Please poll your respective departments for additional items that you would like addressed at this meeting and submit them to me. If you are unable to attend please send a representative so that we have the opportunity to hear your perspective on these issues prior to moving forward with plans that may impact your department. This is your opportunity to provide feedback on these issues.

Also, please let us know by February 25 who (and how many) will attend from your respective areas so that we may take this into consideration when we order the refreshments.

Thank you and we look forward to seeing you on February 29.

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Wireless in Residence Halls

Wireless has been completed in Huffman basement study lounge.

Wireless in Residence Halls

Students returned to JMU in January to find internet access in designated Residence Hall lounges. Wireless access was installed in Converse basement TV lounge, Gifford basement TV lounge, Wayland basement study lounge, Hillside TV lounge, Eagle basement study lounge, Logan basement study lounge, Chesapeake Pavilion room and Potomac Pavilion room. Huffman is also in the final stages of completion. Residence Life, Information Technology and Telecommunications are working together to provide access points in the remaining Residence Hall locations by the end of the semester. Wireless signs will be posted in the designated wireless areas.

Graduating? Congratulations!

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Mac OS x Leopard Support Statement

Planning for support of Mac OSX Leopard is under way. JMU Information Technology continues to test and evaluate these programs for compatibility with the university's central applications and systems. Pending this extensive testing, we expect to begin providing support for OSX Leopard effective March 1, 2008. Pending the outcome of further evaluation, support for Boot Camp dual-boot functionality is not expected to be offered March 1.

While we are testing and evaluating this application, our recommendation is that no one installs it unless there is a pressing business or academic need to do so.

Additional information and updates will be provided on our resource pages:

http://www.jmu.edu/computing/helpdesk/selfhelp/leopard

Technology Tutorials Available on a variety of Computer Programs for Faculty, Staff, and Students

Visit http://movies.atomiclearning.com/highed/tutorials to learn about Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007, IE 7, Mac OS X, Safari, Mac Mail and more with Atomic Learning tutorials. More...

Internet Explorer 7 is fully supported

Information Technology recommends IE 7 as the browser for use with Windows. To download, visit http://isapps.jmu.edu/tutorials/browser/index.asp#ie7

JMU Support for Windows Vista

Windows Vista is currently supported on student-owned PCs.
Pending resolution of compatibility issues with mission-critical central and core applications, support for Vista on faculty/staff/JMU-owned PCs has been deferred to January 1, 2008. As IT continues to evaluate and test Vista, our recommendation continues to be that Vista *not* be installed on faculty/staff/JMU-owned computers unless there is a pressing business or academic need to do so.

Supported Versions of Windows Vista (based on timeframe above)

• Windows Vista Business
• Windows Vista Ultimate
• Windows Vista Enterprise (faculty/staff/JMU-owned computers only)
• (Please note there will be no support for "Home" versions of Vista)

Office 2007--Work at Home Licensing *for faculty and staff only*

JMU has a Campus Agreement contract with Microsoft Corporation to provide Microsoft Office (new licenses and upgrades) for use on JMU-owned computers. In addition, our Campus Agreement permits faculty and staff to install Microsoft Office on a personally-owned computer through Microsoft’s “Work at Home” licensing program... More...

PDAs and Smartphones (including Treos)

Visit http://www.jmu.edu/computing/desktop/pda-smartphone/ for further information regarding support and service of hand-held devices.