Systems Maintenance this Sunday, February 21st

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During our regular maintenance window this Sunday, February 21st from 6 am – 10 am we have the following activities scheduled:

One of the Vermont DNS/DHCP servers will be taken offline briefly to be relocated within the data center. No service outage is planned.
Starting at 6:30am the Vermont wireless controllers will be patched to the latest vendor recommended level. There will be two brief (up to 5 minutes each) wireless service interruptions between 6:30am and 7:30am.
Middfiles will be patched and rebooted. There will be up to 30 minutes of Middfiles related service interruption starting at 8am.

We appreciate your patience as we continuously strive to keep our systems functioning optimally.

Regards,
Billy

Billy Sneed
ITS – Central Systems & Network Services
Middlebury College

@MiddInfoSec – New Phishing Threat

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Information Security has become aware of a new phishing threat with a subject line of “ITS Help-desk”. Please see below for the full content of this attack. Note this email is a hoax and should be deleted from your email. Do not reply to this message and do not click any links in this message. If you have any questions please feel free to contact the help desk at x2200 or forward the message to phishing@middlebury.edu.

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Important reminders to spot a phish include:

Read the entire email from start to finish to ensure that the content and language fits with the sender.
Hover your mouse over links to ensure the link directs you to the destination indicated by the email.
Look for misplaced language, such as copyrights or signatures, that do not match the sender.

For additional information on phishing please visit http://go.middlebury.edu/phish

MIIS & Middlebury Drupal sites have a known issue

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All Clear: the latest content has been restore, sites current as of approximately 9:00 EST this morning, sites operating normally.

Update: It was necessary to restore the supporting database for our primary Middlebury and MIIS drupal web sites. The sites are now responsive, however we currently are restoring more current versions of the database, while this is taking place, there will be some older content displayed.

There is an issue that is causing the MIIS and Middlebury drupal sites to be unresponsive or slow. ITS is working on the issue and expect to resolve it this morning.

Want to learn more about the Argos reporting platform?

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Our current reporting system, Hyperion EPM 11 (formerly Brio), is being discontinued and will no longer be supported by the current vendor after Fall of 2018. We’ve been examining several products over the past few years as we consider potential replacement options. Of the systems we’ve examined we are particularly excited about the reporting system Argos made by Evisions.

If you would like to learn more about Argos they are offering the following upcoming webinar on Tuesday,February 23rd at 2:00pm ET. The webinar will be recorded, so if you are interested but not able to attend at that time, just sign up using the link below and Evisions will send you a link to the recorded session.

Want to learn more about Argos? Attend a webinar that provides client examples as to how the Argos reporting solution empowers users to easily run and view Banner reports, charts and dashboards.

We will be showing client examples of HR, Finance, Financial Aid, Admissions and Advancement department reports, charts and dashboards.

Sign up for Argos Case Studies for Banner
Tuesday, February 23rd – 2:00PM EDT

Case study examples include:
• Student Progression/Dropout Prevention
• Course Utilization
• Advancement Constituent Information
• Financial Aid Award Management
• Budget/Financial Reporting
• DegreeWorks Reportin
• And much more.
The webinar will be available On Demand following the live date.

Cambridge Companions (Trial through March 17, 2016)

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Cambridge Companions are lively, accessible introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics and periods. All are collections of specially commissioned essays, shaped and introduced to appeal to student readers. Current faculty, staff, and students have trial access to all 588 of the Cambridge Companions through mid-March.

Let us know what you think – email eaccess-admin@middlebury.edu or your Library liaison.

Weekly Web Updates – February 16, 2016

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New Features

You can now embed content from trailhub.com in WordPress. This was added to provide trail conditions for the Rikert Nordic Center.

Updates

Tweaks and Fixes

We made several improvements to the program that fetches images for the Athletics history wall from flickr, including ensuring that photos no longer in flickr are removed and email reports of errors on importing images.
Fixed an error that sometimes prevented a WordPress site from being able to be added to a Course Hub page.
Three Google Web Fonts will no longer be loaded on each Drupal page load as we decided to use the licensed Sentinel and Whitney fonts instead. This should improve page load times for first-time visitors as their browsers will no longer need to download the Google Web Font files.

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (Trial through Apr. 15, 2016)

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Students, staff, and faculty at Middlebury have trial access to the online database version of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. Everything from the most recent edition is all right here, accessible from anywhere on campus (or off-campus for current faculty, staff, and students).

Let us know what you think – email eaccess-admin@middlebury.edu or your Library liaison.

First Folio Festival Thursday!

Join us this Thursday February 18th to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and the First Folio! exhibit at the Middlebury Museum of Art.

Starting at 4:30pm in the Center for the Arts lobby, there will be musical and theatrical performances, guided tours of the exhibit with professors of English and American Literature Timothy Billings and James Berg, children’s activities with Page One Literacy, and sweet and savory Renaissance refreshments.

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