See the latest update on this project to synchronize passwords between several central applications and systems so a single username and password (Puget Sound Login) can be used for authentication.

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Join us in Collins Library Room 020 at noon on Friday, Feb. 20, to hear Jesse Keating of Red Hat speak on “Working in Open Source and Instant Gratification.”

We’ll be serving a yummy lunch of pizza, salad, breadsticks, and dip with a selection of beverages.

This event is co-sponsored with ASUPS.

Need Web access while you work out or watch the Loggers play?

Thanks to a recent installation by the Network and Server Systems Group, the Memorial Fieldhouse now has wireless connectivity.

On Saturday, February 7, Technology Services established a new 50 Mbps Internet connection to the Washington K-20 Educational Network.  This is the first in a three-phase implementation to enhance Internet connectivity for campus users.  The K-20 connection serves academic and administrative buildings. The 45 Mbps connection once shared by everyone on campus is now dedicated solely to residential users.

Further enhancements scheduled for installation by the end of spring break will increase the residential connection to 100 Mbps, and plans call for the expansion of wireless coverage to all residential spaces not currently covered, including residence halls, fraternity and sorority houses on Union Avenue, and Puget Sound-owned student houses, by the start of fall semester.

Recent changes to the Technology Services website include the creation of new categories for displaying and disseminating information to the campus community.

The HelpDesk home page now features Service Announcements and HelpDesk Alerts that are available as RSS feeds.  Service Announcements provide information on unplanned disruptions, planned outages for upgrades, and other issues affecting services provided by TS.  HelpDesk Alerts include security warnings about such things as phishing attacks and notifications when software companies release important updates.  The HelpDesk Alerts feed also includes technical tips from the Did You Know? section of the HelpDesk home page.

This post is part of a re-purposed feed called TS News & Projects focusing on departmental efforts of general interest.  Subscribing to any of these feeds is easy to do.  See the TS page on RSS for more information!