Be sure to check out BU Today‘s interview with BU’s Director of Information Security Eric Jacobsen on How to Protect Yourself from Internet Scams. http://www.bu.edu/today/2018/how-to-protect-yourself-from-internet-scams/…

BUworks services have been updated and are now available. This outage allowed for necessary upgrades to the BUworks hardware and database platform. We apologize for any inconvenience this outage may have caused, and thank you for your patience during this upgrade. For help or assistance anytime, please contact the IT Help Center by sending an…

Please be advised that BUworks Services will have a scheduled outage over intersession beginning at 6 p.m. on Friday, December 22, 2017 through 6 p.m. Thursday, December 28, 2017. This outage is necessary to perform software updates required to perform a major upgrade to the BUworks hardware and database platform. All BUworks services including time…

Every year during the month of October, as part of National Cyber-Security Awareness Month, Boston University conducts an annual Information Security Awareness Campaign. We are happy to announce that we will once again be offering 3 days of free paper shredding and collection of unwanted computing equipment to be securely destroyed and recycled. We are…

On Sunday, August 13 from 12:01am until 8:00am, the Read-Write Service and Non-Replicated Data Archiving Service will be unavailable Clients should use the read-only service names during this maintenance period. Read-Write Read-Only archive.bu.edu bumc-y.bu.edu ca2001.bu.edu gpnas.bu.edu isinas.bu.edu oit-fp.bu.edu ru-gpnas.bu.edu archive-ro.bu.edu bumc-y-ro.bu.edu gpnas-legacy-ro.bu.edu gpnas.ro.bu.edu isinas-ro.bu.edu isinas-ro.bu.edu ru-gpnas-ro.bu.edu…

As the Commonwealth Avenue Bridge Reconstruction Project begins, we would like to remind IS&T staff of some of the tools available to assist with working remotely. Skype for Business  Features Instant messaging Web access to Skype for Business meetings for anyone including invited guests – no BU affiliation or BU login/password required Online meetings featuring high-definition (HD) video…

Due to scheduled maintenance, IS&T Data Archiving, NAS and BU Web File Service read-only service will be unavailable on Sunday July 30 from 12:01AM until 08:00AM. Local snapshots on read/write site will be available for file recoveries. Clients should use the following read-write service names during this time: Read-Write Read-Only archive.bu.edu bumc-y.bu.edu ca2001.bu.edu gpnas.bu.edu isinas.bu.edu…

Collaborate and Avoid Traffic With the upcoming Commonwealth Avenue Bridge Replacement, it may be challenging to travel to meetings around campus. Information Services & Technology (IS&T) offers several services to make it easier for the BU community to collaborate. We invite you to learn more about our featured service, Skype for Business, and many others…

In order to perform the annual scheduled maintenance at the MGHPCC, there will be a full power outage at the site starting at 9:00am on Monday, May 22 and ending at 9:00am on Wednesday, May 24. This outage impacts the Shared Computing Cluster (SCC) and ATLAS, as well as the Linux Virtual Lab (scc-lite.bu.edu) and…

You may have seen news of a widespread global ransomware attack.  We want to make sure our community is aware of the details of the situation, how it affected Boston University, and what we should all be doing to keep our systems and data safe. Cybercriminals released a new piece of malicious software (malware) on…