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Microsoft will end support for Windows XP tomorrow, April 8.  (More information can be found on the ITS website.) Many of you have been working with ITS staff to have machines upgraded.  Because we expect that there will be attempts by malicious people to exploit these machines rather quickly, we have been prioritizing this effort and ITS […]

On Saturday, Feb 8 from 6 am to 6 pm, Millennium and any related EPortfolio apps will be offline for system maintenance.

WFS will be down starting at 7 am this Saturday, January 11, 2014, for about 10-12 hours to allow for an upgrade to the Oracle environment.

CryptoLocker Trojan Virus You may hear in the news about the proliferation of this malware on Windows PCs. ITS is actively working on a sitewide solution for Wesleyan domain machines. Also, our antivirus software ESET, is well aware of it. However, because there are so many variants, protection can never be 100% assured. Please be […]

ITS will be performing system maintenance on Saturday, June 29 from 7:00 am to 11:00 am. During that time, EPortfolio will be unavailable.  WFS will continue to be available via the following link:   https://pstux5.wesleyan.edu/psp/PF90PROD/?cmd=login   Additionally, the wireless Guest access and wired connections in the dorms will be interrupted between 7:00 and 8:00 am only.   Access to Wesleyan Google is […]

Our switch work was completed with no issues.  We are now watching hopefully to determine if this solved the problem.  In the process, we did locate a cable that was not working. This resulted in a brief delay of outside email processing of less than 10 minutes.

Wesleyan Google users who would like to use Google Plus including the ability to do hangouts can now do so.  Users can create a Wesleyan-specific Google Plus profile that is independent of any other Google profiles you may have.  Lynda.com offers instruction for to how to use Google Plus for professional purposes.  Using Google Plus does […]

Wesleyan Google users who would like to use Google Plus including the ability to do hangouts can now do so.  Users can create a Wesleyan-specific Google Plus profile that is independent of any other Google profiles you may have.  Lynda.com offers instruction for to how to use Google Plus for professional purposes.  Using Google Plus does […]

EPortfolio will be offline between 6:45 and 7:00 AM on Friday, December 7 AND Friday, December 14 while we prepare our databases for end of year tax updates.  The window will be no more than 15 minutes.

Due to a major security flaw in Windows Operating Systems, we were forced to re-analyze our software update methodology in a very short time. For the best and most reliable results, we have had to change our policy. This means that all Windows OS users will now go directly to Microsoft to obtain its updates […]