Attached are Computing Services recommended purchases for new faculty and staff desktop and laptops. We can always customize the order to best suit your needs.

PURCHASING SOFTWARE
The CITES Webstore and Central Stores are the first two places to look to purchase software. When available you will almost certainly save considerably compared to buying from anywhere else. Also, before purchasing any additional software packages, especially more expensive ones, you may wish to email net@vetmed.illinois.edu to verify that it is not already available.

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What is Illinois Chat?
Illinois Chat is the instant messaging (IM) service that allows faculty, staff, and students on the Urbana campus to chat within the safety and security of the University network.
Why should I use Illinois Chat?

• It’s secured: Your instant messages are encrypted from end to end, which means they cannot be intercepted, and they are never sent outside the University network.

What is Lecture Capture?

Lecture capture is an umbrella term describing any technology that allows instructors to record what happens in their classrooms and make it available digitally. See attached .pdf article to read how this applies to the teaching environment at the College of Veterinary Medicine.

Greetings All,

Having Trouble Staying Connected to the Wireless Network?

Computing Services is suggesting (as a matter of good practice) that users upgrade to the latest wireless card drivers, particularly Intel wireless card users. We further suggest that you set the "power save feature" to off (wireless card always awake). These settings are generally found in your wireless client software. We have found following these procedures make for a better user experience. If you need help with these updates or settings please contact our Help Desk Room 2938 VMBSB.

Background Information:

We will be implementing a major upgrade to Vetstar and VADDS in this Sunday, January 25th so that will permit us to add some significant new functions to the system, including e-signatures, (electronic signatures) for documentation purposes of our electronic medical records (Client communications, RXs, SOAPS notes, etc).

Greetings All,

The Meeting Maker to Exchange conversion is complete. Please remember to use Outlook or the OWA (http://exchange.cites.uiuc.edu) to view and edit your calendar and resource calendars.

The Meeting Maker calendar will be online tomorrow if you feel the need to logon and check for data accuracy. However, do NOT schedule appointments in Meeting Maker. Again, any scheduling changes made in Meeting Maker after 5PM on Thursday, Dec 11th will NOT be migrated to your Exchange calendar.

IMPORTANT MICROSOFT WINDOWS PATCH IS AVAILABLE

PLEASE TAKE ACTION

Microsoft has released a patch that resolves a critical vulnerability in Windows XP, 2000 and 2003. This patch release is out of their normal cycle which indicates they believe there is potential for wormlike exploitation.

Most Vet Med machines get patched automatically and will only need a reboot. Look in the system tray (lower right portion of your desktop) for a yellow shield. This indicates patches have been installed. Click on the shield and follow the instruction to restart your computer.

Illinois.edu

The deadline for departments to have their systems .illinois.edu capable is December 31. The change to illinois.edu is a campus-wide, ongoing project with several technical hurdles yet to be solved. You can begin to use your netid@illinois.edu address anytime. Your email might not display that address in the FROM field for technical reasons beyond Vet Med's control. When those technical issues are solved, we will be ready and announce the changes.

Additional Information:

In an effort to bring our College email and calendar solutions together and gain synergy between email and scheduling, the administrative units of the College and departments will be migrated to Microsoft Exchange services. We will use the Microsoft Outlook application to read/send email and schedule meetings.

The College currently uses CITES Express email services and our own Meetingmaker service. This will unify our email and scheduling offerings onto the CITES operated Exchange service and provide us with one desktop application to support, namely Outlook.

NEW VET MED IM SERVICE

Computing Services has installed a College-wide Instant Messaging server. You are invited to try it out and explore how IM can be useful for your work. Instructions for getting started are below.

CONNECTING TO THE CVM INSTANT MESSAGING (IM) SERVER