Placing Institutional Orders from Apple
Due to recent changes to the Apple Online Store for Educational Institutions, state sales tax will now be charged for institutional orders placed from personal AppleID accounts. In order to avoid this sales tax charge, faculty and staff placing business orders will need to fill out a form to request access to the new online […]
Product Review: Solid-State Drives
Hard disk drive technology has matured over the years, with drives spinning faster, achieving greater data transfer rates, improving at error checking, and attaining tremendous storage capacities. Those gains, however, have come at the cost of increasing disk fragility. Older SCSI and ATA drives could pretty much be counted on to safely store data for […]
Mailing List Service Migrates to Google Groups
On July 25, Information Technology (IT) completed the migration of our mailing list service to Google Groups. Google Groups is Google’s version of a mailing list service. Some of the advantages of Google Groups include a web interface for self-service group management, web-based archive mail review and support for email attachments up to 25 MB. […]
IT Maintenance Announcements – August 2012
A brief list of the IT maintenance events along with the impacted systems and services.
Request Your UM Transcript From a Mobile Device
Transcript requests have recently been added to the mobile-friendly version of the myOleMiss portal. Students can conveniently request official and unofficial transcripts on their mobile devices by visiting myOleMiss and selecting the request a transcript link in the list of mobile friendly myOleMiss services available to them. This service is consistent with the transcript request […]
Solve the Email Quota Problem with Personal Folders in Microsoft Outlook
The need for centralized electronic data storage continues to increase at corporations and educational institutions nationwide. At the University of Mississippi, Information Technology (IT) provides 500 MB of storage space for each UM Mail (Exchange) account on our central Exchange server. Understandably for some employees, more email storage space is needed. One solution is to […]
IT Maintenance Announcements – July 2012
A brief list of the IT maintenance events along with the impacted systems and services.
Blackboard Becomes More Mobile with Recent Upgrades
If you haven’t noticed by now, the Blackboard Learning Management System recently received several product enhancements with the release of a new version of Blackboard Mobile Learn and a system upgrade to version 9.1 SP7. Blackboard Mobile Learn gives students and instructors access to their course content on a variety of mobile devices, including the […]
Avoid Lines at Starbucks: Check the Live Cam
Need to know if Starbucks is busy during the time you’d like to visit them for that favorite cup of coffee, food, snack, etc.? If so, then be sure to visit the Starbucks live cam at olemiss.edu/livecam to monitor the Starbucks traffic so you can “run in” to make a purchase. You can see the other […]
IT Maintenance Announcements – June 2012
A brief list of the IT maintenance events along with the impacted systems and services.