Core Services

Category: GAC IT

  • Phishing victim prevents Gustavus from sending to hotmail

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    sommere

    Recently one of our users gave their password to someone else either by e-mail or by following a link to a non gustavus site. As a result, Hotmail and Live.com are both blocking mail from Gustavus. Unfortunately , Microsoft does not give us any ability to lift the ban and we have to wait for…

  • Single Sign On (SSO) for Google Calendar and Moodle

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    sommere

    As of this morning, if you log in to Google Calendar you will also be logged into Moodle and vice versa. This should allow for easy integration between Google Apps and Moodle Courses. For example, the Google Calendar events we populate for student’s schedules can have a link to the Moodle course in them, and…

  • Another round of phishing email

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    doachs

    This morning many of our users woke up to find their inbox had been invaded by a number of email messages asking them to verify their gustavus.edu email account. This is just a quick reminder to say that no one associated with Gustavus sent that message.  An easy test to do is to read the…

  • Wireless Internet demand in unexpected places met

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    sommere

    We have a goal of covering every building on campus with wireless network access. We aren’t quite there yet and we occasionally get requests for wireless access points to cover parts of campus that we haven’t covered yet. Sometimes those requests are for places we never would have thought of as “places someone would want…

  • Blocking External DNS Servers

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    doachs

    To combat recent infections, we are now forcing all computers on campus to only use our DNS server.

  • Wireless Improvements to Come

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    sommere

    We have discovered that during peek usage times, our wireless network is too big. We just have too many users on one network. We split out the wireless in the library into its own network named “GACLibrary” and it seems to have made a huge difference. In addition, our current system of dealing with guests…

  • New anti phishing tool now in use

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    doachs

    Earlier this week we started using a new tool to fight against phishing email.  A group of higher ed email administrators has put together a list of email addresses used for phishing. As new addresses are discovered, they are added to the list.  We have modified our email server to quarantine any email sent to…

  • Gustavus, now with 50% more bandwidth

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    doachs

    Earlier this afternoon we upgraded the internet connection for the campus from our previous 100Mbit/s to the new 150Mbit/s.

  • Internet Connection Down ( Wed. Night ) [ update ]

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    doachs

    The internet connection for the campus is currently down ( 7:00pm Wednesday Nov, 12). It appears to be a problem with our upstream provider. We are working with them now to try and fix whatever is causing the problem. I will try to report back here when I learn more. [UPDATE Thursday Morning] By 1:00am…

  • Single Sign On Launched for Google Calendar

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    sommere

    In order to improve security and our users’ experience, we have begun to implement a Single Sign On system. With this system, you can log in once and gain access to several of our services without having to log in again. Right now, if you go to http://google.gustavus.edu you will be prompted with a log…