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Please be aware that purchases from Lenovo may be delayed due to flooding in Thailand. See details in this advisory from BU Sourcing: “As you may be aware, the recent flooding in Thailand has disabled a significant portion of the world’s overall production capacity of Hard Disk Drives (HDDs). These events are having a significant […]…

IS&T is providing a variety of dates and times for Outlook 2010 training. To learn more about Email & Contacts or Calendaring & Collaboration, see details and register at https://www.bu.edu/tech/about/training/classroom/….

IS&T’s Tech Talk series is now available at www-staging.bu.edu/tech/talk. See the most recent presentation on Mad Hackers, which took place on October 20 for Information Security Week….

This year, BU Information Security is hosting the first annual Information Security Awareness Week at Boston University. One of the activities the Information Security department is sponsoring this year is free document shredding for all BU faculty, staff, and students…

All current students who were reading mail on ACS have been migrated to BU Google Apps. Log in at www.bu.edu/google or www.bu.edu/webmail. You can also configure a desktop or device mail client. Information on faculty and staff use of Microsoft Exchange is available at www.bu.edu/tech/exchange….

Need assistance? See our Move-in page at www.bu.edu/tech/movein or contact the IT Help Center. Also, see our Move-in team in action and learn more about our year-round support resources: www.bu.edu/tech/movein/video….

IS&T is aware that bu.edu has been placed on several blocked sender lists and we are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. Meanwhile, you could find that you are unable to send messages from your bu.edu account to Hotmail, Verizon, Comcast and other external services. More information will be posted here as…

The BUworks Central portal has been made available at www.bu.edu/buworkscentral. Please make sure to review the Browser and System Requirements…

Beginning on Monday, May 23, the engine behind TechWeb’s Help interface transitioned to ServiceNow. Please use Help just as you normally would; but if you have any problems or questions, contact the IT Help Center by calling 617-353-HELP (353-4357) or by writing to ithelp@bu.edu….

Students who read their mail on ACS will need to transition to the new BU Google Mail by September 4, 2011. Graduating students who transition to BU Google Mail will benefit from continued use of their login@bu.edu email account….