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  All Wesleyan students, faculty, and staff now have access to lynda.com, an online subscription library that teaches the latest software tools and skills through high-quality instructional videos taught by recognized industry experts. Using your Wesleyan username and password, (see instructions for accessing Lynda.com) the campus community can access more than 1,400 training videos on … Read more

The recent highly publicized Java exploit has produced much concern and confusion. The exploit only affects updates of Oracle Java 7 before Update 11.  Java 6 is not vulnerable to this exploit, and neither is Java 7 Update 11 (and, presumably, future, later versions). All major web browsers have taken it upon themselves to block … Read more

On Wednesday, January 16 from 10:00PM to 6:00 AM on Thursday, Jan 17, we will be performing maintenance to Dragon.  During that time, files on Dragon will be unavailable.  Please make sure to save and close any files stored on Dragon before you leave on January 16.  When you arrive Thursday morning, we suggest you … Read more

ITS is going to be performing major system maintenance on two Saturdays, January 5 and 12, beginning at 8:00AM.  The work on our data storage systems is designed to be non-disruptive and should not have an impact on our community.  In the event that there is an impact to services, we will notify the community … Read more

The Internet performance issues with our primary service provider were resolved this evening.  ITS restored the service back from our backup provider.  We learned that the problem was due to a fiber cut in New Jersey that affected a large number of their customers.

We are experiencing performance problems with our Internet access.  We are currently working with our provider to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.

EPortfolio will be offline between 6:45 and 7:00 AM on Friday, December 7 AND Friday, December 14 while we prepare our databases for end of year tax updates.  The window will be no more than 15 minutes.

EPortfolio will be offline tomorrow morning, November 29, from 6:30 to 6:45 am for needed database maintenance.   During that 15 minutes, there will be no access to EPortfolio and users will see a Maintenance screen.

On Monday Nov 12 the Wesleyan Station Postal window in the Usdan Student Center will be closed in observance of Veteran’s day. There will also be no USPS metering service available. The package room will be open and normal campus delivery and pickup will continue as usual. If you have any questions, please contact me … Read more

ITS will be working on the dragon file storage system from 5PM Saturday, October 13 through Noon on Sunday, October 14.  This is a change from the previously communicated time.  Please note that files stored on Dragon will not be available during this window.