Passwords are not great. Increasingly, phishing emails make users vulnerable to unauthorised password resets. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) dramatically increases your security by requiring an additional code which is only visible from your smartphone or desktop computer. MFA can send a Read more…
Welcome to our new students for Michaelmas term 2020. Here is a copy of the ICT Induction video and presentation for your reference. and here is a copy of the slides in PDF form: Somerville College IT Induction – Oct Read more…
Update on the College network infrastructure, and it’s readiness for hybrid teaching this term Dear all, I thought I should update everyone on what we have been doing over the summer to prepare for this term in relation to the Read more…
Michaelmas Term 2020 (October to December) You can now contact the ICT Office during business hours (Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm) using either email to ict.desk@some.ox.ac.uk, call us on Oxford 01865 270597 or you may now book a Virtual Read more…
Due to the current pandemic situation scanners and printers may be inaccessible to students and staff. In the meantime, until normal service resumes, we invite you to take this opportunity to look at mobile-based alternatives to the hefty scanners you Read more…
The last few buildings are having the UPS fitted this week, we will have one data cabinet which requires extra work to complete which will be scheduled as soon as possible. As ever please get in touch if you need Read more…
While the main switch replacements have been completed, there has been a short delay in replacing the new battery backup devices (UPS). This last bit of work will result in very short periods of downtime per building/cabinet as the engineers Read more…
Planned Network Maintenance – Planned wired network upgrade, July 13th 10am to 4pm Monday 13th July, work on the core and network upgrade starts again, the first issue we need our engineers to look at is the issues we had Read more…
Further work posponed until at least 12th Week (13th July onwards) Dear all, Firstly I would like to apologies to all for the network going up and down most of the morning. Following some unexpected issues discovered during this morning’s Read more…
Planned wired network upgrade, June 8th through to June 12th 16th Dear all, Work is progressing across college, but some works will now be completed next week, this version of the plan shows where we have got to and where Read more…