Keep your Wireless connections working!
Janet, the University's external network infrastructure provider has requested we change the way we provide wireless networking (eduroam) at Lancaster.
To ensure that your University Wi-Fi connection doesn't stop working, you need to update your eduroam login on all devices (laptops, smartphones, tablets, etc).
Follow the instructions on how to change your eduroam login for most popular devices.
Adobe Acrobat Pro - Upgrade
Adobe Acrobat Pro (version X), is now available in all PC Labs, training spaces and on managed and supported PCs. This version
of Adobe Acrobat allows you to create PDF files from within most popular Microsoft Office applications including Microsoft
project and Visio.
Further hints and tips on how to make best use of Adobe Acrobat Pro are available on the Adobe
website.
Live@edu upgrading to Office365
During the week commencing 22nd July 2013 the undergraduate email service, Live@edu, will be upgraded to Microsoft's "Office 365" service. Login will continue
to be via webmail.lancs.ac.uk using WebLogin and your usual University account login details.
If you currently access email using your mobile device then after the upgrade you'll no longer require a separate password and will access your email via
your University account details.
Full details of the changes, including those to Microsoft Skydrive, how they effect you and what you need to do can be found at
www.lancs.ac.uk/iss/services/ugemail/.
FREE PowerPoint Student workshop
22 May, 2:30pm - 4:30pm, Training Suite 1
For further details or to book see the details on the ISS Training pages.
ISS PC Labs
Looking for a PC Lab to finish an assignment or do some exam prep? Did you know you can check for your nearest free PC using the PC Availability feature in
iLancaster? You can check
online from a web browser, or, if you have a smartphone,
download iLancaster to your mobile.
Return, Recycle & Reuse Network Cables
If you no longer need your network cable, return it to your college Porters' Lodge and ISS will put it to good use elsewhere. Just ask your porter
where the network cable box is!
Think before you Click
Social-engineering threats are rapidly growing, and people increasingly use shortened URLs in Twitter or Facebook posts so that it's difficult to see where
the links are taking you.
All too often, we click on the link anyway because we trust the person who has posted them - but are you sure they really know where the links have come
from? Some of the most popular posts can send you to a site that can not be trusted, so here are some tips on how to check out a link before
you click on it:
- For links that look legitimate, hover your cursor over the link and the true, full address should appear at the bottom of the browser window.
If the full address is something like //X5932OwzBulgaria45634.cn or //paypal.gotcha.co.ru, then clicking on it is not a good idea.
- If the link has been shortened to a "bitly" addresses, simply paste the URL into your browser, add a + after it (for example,
//bitly.com/13LRaF4+ and press Enter. Adding the plus sign takes you to the bitly site first, where you'll see a page
for the destination site where you can check out the full address of the link.
- Similarly for "tinyurl" addresses, add "preview" before the address. For example, enter //preview.tinyurl.com/{xxxxx}, and the
uncloaked address will appear at the tinyurl site.
- For snipurl addresses, add "peek" before the shortened address. For example, //peek.http://snipurl.com/26nno88 takes you to the Snipurl
site and displays the full URL, which is https://gap.lancs.ac.uk/policy-info-guide/5-policies-procedures/rules-of-the-university/Pages/default.aspx, the
Rules of the University web page.
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