CLAS IT Connections Fall 2014 Newsletter
Connections will bring you news on IT related services and offerings within the college and university, to keep you informed about these changes.
IT Alerts: IT Service Outage, 9/20
UF experienced a widespread outage for IT services on Saturday. GatorLink mail and other services were affected.
Safari Outlook Web Access Bug
OWA users using Safari may have had complaints of messages they’ve sent taking a long time to open. This is due to a bug with the fonts used in OWA for Safari in the messages.
IT Alerts: Reports of problems accessing Office 365 email
UFIT is looking into reports of Office 365 email users reporting problems accessing their mailboxes. This problem seems to be affecting only some UF Office 365 email users; others remain unaffected. UFIT is working with Microsoft to correct this issue. View the Alert
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Information for New Faculty & Staff
To welcome new faculty and staff to the college, CLAS IT has resources available about our support and services.
Fall New Faculty Orientation, August 22nd
Join us for an introduction to CLAS computing and support services for new faculty. The orientation will be held on Friday, August 22nd from 9:30AM until 11AM in 210 Pugh Hall. For more information about IT resources, see Information for New Faculty and Staff.
IT Alerts: Problems Uploading Attachments in MyUFL
UF Security does not recommend removing security updates as a workaround for the attachment problem in Peoplesoft.
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IT Alerts: Fake Outlook Web Mail Page
UF users should be aware of several phishing email scam that attempts to convince unsuspecting recipients to follow a link to a non-UF web site. The links take users to a web form that is a copy of UF’s Outlook Web Access login page. An example of the phishing message is available on the UF
IT Alert: Email delivery problems through campus SMTP system
All e-mail through smtp.ufl.edu between 11:15am and 12:53pm lost. Update: 3:30pm, July 1: UFIT is working to identify all those who sent email that was affected by this disruption. We will send notifications to these people informing them that their email was not delivered and that they should attempt to send any affected email again.
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Upgrade to Lync 2013
UFIT has upgraded the UF Lync service to version 2013 over the weekend (June 27-29). Mobile users may need to update their Lync apps. This change should be largely transparent to supported internal clients and should not require any reconfiguration, For more information, refer to the UF Microsoft Lync Migration FAQ. Lync Mobile Clients Users may need