Dear all, We are receiving and seeing a lot of reports of a new email phishing attempt against the staff and students of the College and likely the University. This email, and many like it should be immediately deleted, please do not open the attachment, reply or click on any Read more…
A quick introduction/reminder of what each network at Somerville College is capable of for the start of term. This might get rather technical so a quick summary: The SOMERVILLE wireless network has more bandwidth available than EDUROAM or The Cloud combined. The SOMERVILLE network does not limit bandwidth per device Read more…
Everything is currently fine as far as we know 🙂 We will publish new posts under this category if there are network/email/security or other issues to do with ICT in the College or University. Feel free to bookmark this link: http://blogs.some.ox.ac.uk/ict/category/status/ You can also see the University status page here: http://status.ox.ac.uk/ Read more…
Dear all, We are seeing new, very convincing phishing attacks against University email accounts over the long vacation. Please be mindful that neither ourselves nor IT Services will ever ask you to confirm/verify/renew/activate/reactivate your account details or mailbox details to continue service. We have had reports of this one being Read more…
This one is for ITSS, but may be usefull to some users who like to look whats under the hood! Issue Outlook 2016 can’t establish either an encrypted or unencrypted connection to the server. Things to try To fix on a stand-alone pc try: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\AutoDiscover] “ExcludeHttpsAutoDiscoverDomain”=dword:00000001 “ExcludeHttpsRootDomain”=dword:00000001 “ExcludeScpLookup”=dword:00000001 “ExcludeSrvRecord”=dword:00000001 For Read more…
Dear all, We are seeing multiple phishing attacks against University email accounts. Please be mindful that neither ourselves nor IT Services will ever ask you to confirm/verify/renew/activate/reactivate your account details or mailbox details to continue service. If you believe you may have fallen for such an email please contact us Read more…
Some end-of-year IT information End of term self-registration clear out Monday 9th July 2018 @ 10:30am Computer registrations for this term are set to expire on Monday 9th July 2018 at 10:30am. Anyone who is still in College will be prompted to re-scan their computers when next connected. Please make Read more…
From the Outlook Web Access (OWA) interface for Nexus365 (Office365) the default setting for replying to messages is Reply all. This means that any message you reply to will be copied to all the email addresses mentioned in the TO and CC fields of the original message. Some people believe that Read more…
Just some quick screenshots on where to go to remove your old email account profile. Then to add it back: https://help.it.ox.ac.uk/nexus365/mobile-device-ios
The new term brings the start of a new email service to the University. Titled Nexus365 the new service replaces the Nexus email service and adds Office365 functionality to your account. Full details of the new service, including help can be found here: https://help.it.ox.ac.uk/nexus365/index All Oxford Nexus users will receive Read more…