Author: Gregory D Waldmann

Moving E-mail to the Cloud

As part of a service improvement project for email, IS&T will be migrating Exchange accounts from on campus servers up to Microsoft’s Office 365 Exchange cloud service. There are many benefits to the new Office 365 service, including the following: •Access to online versions of the Microsoft Office suite applications (Word, Excel, Outlook) •1 Terabyte […]

Wireless Access for BU Guests

IS&T is pleased to announce that it will now be much easier for visitors to the Charles River Campus to access the Internet over the BU Guest (unencrypted) wireless network. Visitors can now quickly and easily register themselves using a valid email address or mobile phone text message, with no need for BU-affiliated sponsorship. To […]

CASFSA/CASFSB Outage

This Friday, June 20th, CASFSA and CASFSB will taken offline at 5:30 pm as part of a planned power outage at 685 Commonwealth Avenue.  The file servers will be offline until Saturday at 10 am.  All of our other servers will be offline as well due to the extended outage.  We apologize for any inconvenience […]

CASFSA/CASFSB Outage

This Friday, June 13th, CASFSA and B will taken offline at 5:30 pm as part of a planned power outage at 685 Commonwealth Avenue.  The file servers will be offline until Saturday at 10 am.  All of our other servers will be offline as well due to the extended outage.  We apologize for the inconvenience […]

More information on the E-mail Scam

Good Afternoon, Over the past 48 hours there have been several BU email accounts compromised and used to send messages to people internally.  If you receive a message with the subject “Boston University Staff and Faculty only” or the message asks you to click on a link to increase your email account size, please delete […]

E-mail scam

You may have received an e-mail recently with the subject heading “Re: BU MEMBER©:-ACCOUNT UPDATE.” The text of the e-mail reads: “Dear Member, For Security Purpose and SSL Server Upgrade, E-mail Access has been Temporarily Suspended. Click To Re -Activate Your BU Regards, © 2013-2014 Trustees of Boston University” This e-mail is a phishing scam. […]