Office of Information Technology

OIT provides entertainment television programming for students in their dorm rooms. The cable service contains a wide range of programming options including a free-of-charge, very basic tier of service.

Provides television programming in academic and administrative buildings on campus, including public lounges in the Frist Campus center and other common spaces on campus. In offices, classrooms and auditoria, instructional support is the main purpose.

The CampusCGI Facility provides a set of custom services that enable members of the University community to develop, test, and run CGI [Common Gateway Interface] programs from a central, OIT-supported Unix server. As a result, staff, faculty, and students do not need to run their own web servers to make their CGI programs available on the Internet.

• Provide functional stewardship for all the Bio/Demographic needs of business offices across campus that use PeopleSoft HCM/CS. Work with the PeopleSoft technical team to enhance functionality, resolve issues, patch or upgrade the product.
• Resolve Bio/Demographic data related issues within PeopleSoft HCM/CS. 
• Provide ongoing support to resolve duplicate data in PeopleSoft, both by specific request from Business offices (HR, Development, Registrar, Admissions, etc) and by analysis of current data in PeopleSoft Campus Community.
• Provide ongoing support for PAI (Permanent Address Information) analysis and remediation for incoming classes and their parents in a timely manner.
• Provide support for address validation for any group using QAS products, both batch and interactive.

OIT maintains computers that are generally accessible. The public can use these Kiosk machines to search the Princeton web site as well as to read Princeton e-mail and to gain access to the University benefits site. Users also obtain limited access to non-Princeton domain web sites such as NJ Transit, weather, the PU Credit Union.

Campus Receivables (aka. Loans and Receivables)  - This system is a fat Client-based Java Application that handles 9 different receivable systems (Student Accounts, Mortgages, Princeton Parent Loans, Employee Parent Loans, Monthly Payment Plan, Unique Loans, Summer Room Rentals, Outside Loans, Outside Scholarships), with a Client Database and an Internal Work Flow System. 
 

Color Printing

All color printing is charged on a per page basis. There is no reduction in price for customers who supply their own paper (we are charging for the ink, not the paper). Due to the danger of unsuitable transparency material melting and permanently damaging the printer, we do not allow our customers to supply their own transparencies.

Optical Media

CDR & envelope (700 MB) $0.75 ea.

DVD-R & envelope (4.7 GB) $1.50 ea.

CDR Mass Duplication Session Surcharge (unless you do it yourself) $10.00 per session
+ media

DVD-R Mass Duplication Session Surcharge $20.00 per session
+ media

CDR/DVD-R Optical Media Printer Surcharge $2.00 per disc

TDK 60 minute Mini-DV Tape $5.00 ea.

The Central File Share provides access over the network from the campus or via VPN to home directories (H: drive), departmental shares (M: drive) and many other central file stores. The service is supported by redundant systems with both on-line and encrypted off-site backups. Users receive 5GB of quota space in home directories while departments are allocated 50GB of quota space. Users and departments can use additional quota as needed for a monthly charge. Departments can also request dedicated space on the Central File Share servers: both replicated, high-speed storage and lower cost, lower-performance storage is available

Media Services maintains stationary audiovisual support systems for use by Princeton classes and provides hands-on training on all aspects of those systems. Media Services also performs equipment maintenance, repairs and alignments.

To request this service, contact Media Services at 258-3196, fax 258-1228, or send e-mail to media@princeton.edu.
 

OIT offers 20 Dell computers and also 20 Apple Macintosh I-Books along with necessary networking, mice, power and other cables to create a portable classroom for those who need a training or classroom facility but are unable to reserve one of the PC equipped rooms.

Color printing for academic purposes only for students, staff, faculty.

Princeton University provides access to the Internet network through contracts with commercial Internet Service Providers

SSH is an Internet protocol that is used to connect securely to a remote system. To "SSH" is to establish a command line session with a remote computer, such as the arizona and hats Linux clusters at Princeton. Unix and Linux operating systems come with a built-in program that uses this protocol. SSH clients are also available for Windows systems.

The Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) is available on all public Linux/Unix servers (hats, arizona, sixtyfour, lxiv) and can be used to transmit files securely both to and from these systems from both on and off campus.

There are a range of systems that can be used to store digital content.  OIT's Digital Repository Architect can help you choose the most appropriate systems and services for storing, managing, preserving, and providing others with access to your documents, research datasets, or multi-media files.

The Corporate Direct Deposit Web application provides a Web interface and corresponding database, distinct from the PeopleSoft database that allows vendors, using a Princeton LDAP userid and password, to register and manage their bank account information. This registered bank account information is used, via an interface, to update the PeopleSoft system that is in turn used to pay vendors via direct deposit. Along with the vendor user interface, an administrative interface allows Princeton University Treasurer Office staff to manage vendor access to the application.

Blackboard is a learning management system that provides course web pages for all Princeton courses. The pages allow document sharing, assignments, grading, course-specific communication, and other tools for collaborative work among faculty and students in a course.

Assistance with the creation of administrative and/or departmental accounts for use of the network resources and access to the Internet.

OIT provides and maintains e-mail distribution lists "Listserv". Any member of the Princeton community may establish an e-mail mailing list, as long as it supports research, administration, or other recognized University activities.

Special Interest Users Groups at Princeton University

Princeton Linux Users Group

Princeton UNIX Group

Princeton Macintosh Users Group

Princeton Student Macintosh Users Group

Web-Database Application Group

EndNote

Roxen User Meetings

Listservs are automatically created for each course at Princeton, based on information in Blackboard. With these lists, faculty and staff can contact course participants without using internal Blackboard mailing tools.

Part of OIT Administrative Information Services' CDI group, DAS addresses the need for professionally developed web applications that cannot be implemented by Princeton staff, yet which fall below the enterprise level systems deployed by AIS. DAS focuses on applications that have departmental rather than University scope, and which are intended to solve immediate information gathering and dissemination needs. Typically, these are small-scale applications that can be developed in days or weeks.

The "SendMePDF" print service converts word processing files (or other files printable on a PostScript printer) into PDF files.

Professors can present a short, personal introduction to their courses, thereby increasing interest and aiding students in their course selection process. Students can view the videos on the relevant department's web sites or on Blackboard. The Broadcast Center is responsible for filming, editing, and encoding the videos.

From our current list of offerings of desktop and business applications, OIT Training can provide customized training for work groups tailored to meet their specific needs.