Technology Services

Category: GAC IT

  • New faster wireless in some buildings on campus

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    sommere

    Over the summer, Gustavus Technology Services’ Core Services staff installed new wireless access points in several buildings on campus. The new access points should be faster and be able to scale better to handle more computers using our wireless system. The new access points have been installed in: The Library Old Main Nobel Hall Carlson…

  • Gustavus is IPv6 Enabled

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    sommere

    Gustavus’s network is now IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) Enabled. The main difference between regular IPv4 and IPv6 is the number of internet addresses possible. The internet is about two years from running out of IP addresses. IPv6 solves those problems. In fact, Gustavus alone has FAR more IPv6 addresses than there are IPv4 addresses…

  • Possible Internet Outage Friday Dec. 18th **( Rescheduled for the 22nd )**

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    doachs

    *** UPDATE *** At 2:15 Thursday I received word that our ISP has rescheduled the maintenance for December 22nd instead. I just received a notice from our upstream ISP that they will be performing emergency fiber repair on the fibers Gustavus uses to connect to the internet. The maintenance is scheduled to being on Friday…

  • Explanation for last nights internet outage

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    doachs

    Last night our ISP ( Hickorytech ) needed to relocate the fiber that our internet connection travels on due to road construction. We were notified last week that there would be a “loss of service for up to one hour during the window” with the window being from 12:00am until 6:00am, October 13th. Being a…

  • How to watch the Nobel Conferece

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    doachs

    There are many ways to watch this years Nobel Conference on your computer. If you are on campus and have a wired network connection you can view this stream or try going to http://tv.gac.edu/. If you are on campus and have a TV connected to cable, you can watch the Nobel Conference on channel 7.…

  • Phishing victim prevents Gustavus from sending to hotmail

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    sommere

    Recently one of our users gave their password to someone else either by e-mail or by following a link to a non gustavus site. As a result, Hotmail and Live.com are both blocking mail from Gustavus. Unfortunately , Microsoft does not give us any ability to lift the ban and we have to wait for…

  • Single Sign On (SSO) for Google Calendar and Moodle

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    sommere

    As of this morning, if you log in to Google Calendar you will also be logged into Moodle and vice versa. This should allow for easy integration between Google Apps and Moodle Courses. For example, the Google Calendar events we populate for student’s schedules can have a link to the Moodle course in them, and…

  • Another round of phishing email

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    doachs

    This morning many of our users woke up to find their inbox had been invaded by a number of email messages asking them to verify their gustavus.edu email account. This is just a quick reminder to say that no one associated with Gustavus sent that message.  An easy test to do is to read the…

  • Wireless Internet demand in unexpected places met

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    sommere

    We have a goal of covering every building on campus with wireless network access. We aren’t quite there yet and we occasionally get requests for wireless access points to cover parts of campus that we haven’t covered yet. Sometimes those requests are for places we never would have thought of as “places someone would want…

  • Blocking External DNS Servers

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    doachs

    To combat recent infections, we are now forcing all computers on campus to only use our DNS server.