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Got two minutes to improve your digital literacy?

Tech Talk, a regular feature in DailyNews from Information Technology Services, will share how-to’s and tips for leveraging ITS-supported software in your day-to-day work. Each Tech Talk will lead with a video of 60 to 150 seconds and provide additional resources if more information is needed.

“Our software programs offer many, many options and features. Plus, they are regularly being updated with new ones,” says Ryan Kenney, executive director of ITS. “We recognize it can be hard to keep up, so want to provide digestible information that is easy to action and incorporate into daily tasks.”

A growing collection of Tech Talks is available on the IT Services’ website at www.uwindsor.ca/its/tech-talk.

Suggestions for Tech Talk topics are welcomed and can be submitted here.

—Ericka Greenham

graphic labelled "Tech Talk"

Got two minutes to improve your digital literacy?

Tech Talk, a regular feature in DailyNews from Information Technology Services, will share how-to’s and tips for leveraging ITS-supported software in your day-to-day work. Each Tech Talk will lead with a video of 60 to 150 seconds and provide additional resources if more information is needed.

“Our software programs offer many, many options and features. Plus, they are regularly being updated with new ones,” says Ryan Kenney, executive director of ITS. “We recognize it can be hard to keep up, so want to provide digestible information that is easy to action and incorporate into daily tasks.”

A growing collection of Tech Talks is available on the IT Services’ website at www.uwindsor.ca/its/tech-talk.

Suggestions for Tech Talk topics are welcomed and can be submitted here.

—Ericka Greenham

Mailbox overflowing with missives

Information Technology Services will be making changes to the University’s email system on Thursday, April 30. No outages are anticipated as part of the upgrades and IT Services expects the email system to be more usable and robust as well as able to handle higher volumes with increased security.

As part of the changes, users who receive daily Spam Digest emails will now need to check their Junk folders in Outlook for any potential missed emails. If you identify any mail that is legitimate, right click on the email, and select Junk -> Not Junk in the menu options.

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More information about junk mail settings can be found in the IT Services Knowledge Base.

Mailbox overflowing with missives

Information Technology Services will be making changes to the University’s email system on Thursday, April 30. No outages are anticipated as part of the upgrades and IT Services expects the email system to be more usable and robust as well as able to handle higher volumes with increased security.

As part of the changes, users who receive daily Spam Digest emails will now need to check their Junk folders in Outlook for any potential missed emails. If you identify any mail that is legitimate, right click on the email, and select Junk -> Not Junk in the menu options.

screen grab indicating location of "Not Junk" command

More information about junk mail settings can be found in the IT Services Knowledge Base.

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An upgrade to campus firewalls may disable all on-campus systems including the Blackboard learning management system, the UWinsite systems, VPN connections, and VIP for two early-morning hours Monday, April 27 — from 6 to 8 a.m.

IT Services expects systems will be operational before 8 a.m. If, however, you continue to experience any problems, contact the IT Service Desk at 519-253-3000, ext. 4440.