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 *** RETIRED in 2009 when Illinois Chat released ***

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

THIS IS A REMINDER ABOUT THE TRAINING SESSION TODAY AND REPEAT SESSION ON WEDNESDAY

Department Heads and Administrative Assistants,

We have three important computer related upgrades occurring over the next couple of months that I would like to outline to you. We will be upgrading to Microsoft Office version 2007; migrating to Microsoft Exchange email and migrating to Exchange calendaring from Meetingmaker. These will each proceed independently.

UPGRADING TO MS OFFICE 2007

[This message sent to all Veterinary Medicine faculty and staff via blind copy.]

Colleagues,

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[This message sent to all CVM faculty via blind copy.]

CVM Faculty and Instructors,

I am happy to announce the iClickers are a huge success thus far. They have been used in six different courses thus far. This success has created some scheduling challenges for us. In order to make the iClickers available as much as possible, we have created some guidelines for their use. I ask for your cooperation with these guidelines.

GUIDELINES FOR iCLICKER USE AT VET MED