OIT training is now taking place in the new training facilities at 701 Carnegie, on Canal Pointe Boulevard.
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With this easy online tool, you can request and sponsor a Princeton University "guest account" for people not directly affiliated with the University.
Many OIT departments are consolidating the location of operations with the move to their new home at 701 Carnegie Center. Staff moves begin Monday, November 2.
The Office of Information Technology is pleased to announce the launch of the new OIT website. The website has new navigation and search tools to complement the tried-and-true features of the current site.
The Library, OIT, and students partner to implement a print quota system for all students, which has taken effect October 15, 2009.
Princeton is using the Kindle DX electronic reader to pilot the use of an e-reader in a small number of classes during the Fall term of 2009.
OIT is pleased to offer the Business Technology Certificate Program (BTCP), a valuable development opportunity for administrative and support staff.
On October 15, Class of 2009 student netIDs will be terminated and will no longer have access to campus computing resources, including Princeton e-mail and files stored on OIT servers. Accounts of graduated graduate students will be closed on October 1, as previously announced.
Please set your online security profile with PUaccess. It is required in order to process our benefit election information.
As was announced in July, students logging in to SCORE will have to have an online security profile before they can proceed with registration/course selection.
The 2009-10 edition of the policies governing appropriate use of University information technology resources and Internet access has been posted online.
The TV studio at the Woodrow Wilson School has moved to the Broadcast Center in the Lewis Science Library.
On Friday, June 26, 2009, support for Symantec AntiVirus at Princeton was discontinued. If your computer is still using Symantec, it will no longer receive updated Symantec virus definitions from Princeton. If you do not take action now and change your antivirus software, your computer will not be protected.
On or about June 28th, if Symantec was still installed on your computer, you began receiving Windows notifications that your virus definitions are out of date. If you try to manually
Students, if you're planning to buy a new computer before coming to campus, consider the Student Computer Initiative (SCI) program.
During Reunions weekend, OIT provides Internet connectivity to all visitorson campus using wireless networking services. OIT Visitor Wireless requiresno registration and is free of charge.
Please see Computing facilities available during Reunions for the following:
Configuration settings for your laptop computer
Campus map with wireless availability
Public computer facility locations
Digital Student Suitcase: Tools to help graduating students pack their files and prepare for leaving campus
A suite of tools is available to help graduating students pack their IT property (such as e-mail messages, H: drive files, and Blog entries) and remove their computers from the Princeton domain.
For details, see: www.princeton.edu/suitcase.
OIT is proud to announce the launch of CAS (Central Authentication Service) -- a single sign-on authentication mechanism for Princeton web administrators to easily create login capabilities to their sites.
CAS authenticates using a Princeton University netID and password, and if an online site or application is CAS-enabled, you are guaranteed that your credentials are not being collected or gathered for malicious reasons. Online sites will automatically re-direct you to the CAS web page t
Internet Explorer 8 was released on March 19, 2009, by Microsoft and will be the default browser for the upcoming release of the new Windows 7 operating system.
Due to reported incompatibilities with University applications, OIT is recommending that users not upgrade to Internet Explorer version 8 at this time.
There are many options available to you on the market for e-mail, calendaring, and browser applications. For a comparison, please see this comparison chart of desktop applicati
The University has negotiated a campus-wide site license for McAfee VirusScan to replace Symantec AntiVirus on all faculty, staff and student computers.
You can download and install McAfee from www.princeton.edu/antivirus on your own. This new software will provide the University community a pro-active means of battling computer viruses and is free to all faculty, staff, and students. The full transition to McAfee is expected to take a few months; support for Symantec AntiVirus will conti
The P-Synch Change Password Service was updated on Monday, March 9, to improve its interface and functionality.
The Change Password Service has been streamlined so that when customers activate or change their University password, all related passwords (LDAP, Windows, P-Synch) are reset simultaneously, allowing users to easily update all passwords. The easy-to-remember web address for this service is: www.princeton.edu/changepassword. Helpful hints for selecting a secure password can
