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For Faculty, For Staff, For Students, Service Outages
| by Jamie Carroll and Paul Dicovitsky
We are investigating issues with the Pulse Secure VPN this morning, which provides remote access to services like MiddFiles and Remote Desktop.
Read more.
For Faculty, For Staff, For Students, Scheduled Maintenance
| by Paul Dicovitsky
Middfiles will be unavailable during the upgrade.
Read more about impacted services.
For Faculty, For Staff, For Students, Service Outages
| by Paul Dicovitsky and Lisa Terrier
ITS is working closely with facilities to resolve matters as swiftly as possible and most services should be back up and stable at this time.
Learn more.
For Alumni, For Faculty, For Staff, For Students
| by Chris Norris
Beware SMS/TXT messages regarding “Parcel Sorting Center”, “Package deliveries”, “Amazon gifts”, etc.
Learn more about these known scams.
For Faculty, For Staff, For Students, Scheduled Maintenance, Service Improvements
| by Paul Dicovitsky
Printing services will be offline for about 90 minutes during ITS’ 6:00-8:00 am (ET) maintenance window.
Read full details.
For Faculty, For Staff, For Students
| by Adam Franco and Ian McBride
We are happy to announce that the Course Hub has gained a new feature: profiles for users with the ability to record your name pronunciation in both audio and text. Further , this feature will present name pronunciation and preferred pronouns to instructors in the Course Hub’s class-rosters. Likewise, instructor name pronunciation will be shown to students on course-overview pages.
As previously announced, we have now switched WordPress ( and ) over to using encrypted https:// connections for all browsing.
For Faculty, For Staff, Service Improvements
| by Adam Franco and Ian McBride
For Faculty, For Staff, For Students, Scheduled Maintenance, Service Improvements
| by Adam Franco and Ian McBride
WordPress change announcement: In the coming week we will change to use encrypted HTTPS for all browsing rather than letting sites be browsed under both HTTPS and unencrypted HTTP connections. This change will improve security for all users and is a prerequisite for an improved single-sign-on process.
All URLs will be automatically redirected to HTTPS version and the impact on the vast majority of sites should should be minimal. That said, with over 5,000 sites in the system there are likely cases where some browsers will block the inclusion of some content has been hard-coded to load using an HTTP URL. In these cases, the resolution is to update the embedded content to use https:// URLs instead of http:// URLs. Because of the scale of content in this system it is not possible for us to exhaustively audit all sites and pages. Users can test their own sites by navigating to the site and changing the address in their browser’s URL bar from … to … Please report any issues found or questions .
For MiddPoints, For Faculty, For Staff
| by Chris Norris
Everyone needs to be enrolled in the Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium’s (GMHEC) Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) in order to access our new Human Resources services on Oracle, which includes time entry and benefits.
Read more to learn how to enroll.
For MiddPoints, For Faculty, For Staff, For Students
| by Cynthia "Pij" Slater
There’s never been a better time to explore LinkedIn Learning’s offerings and add some new skills to your work, school, or personal “toolkit.”
Read on for some timely course suggestions.
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