Computers News Archive

Marshall University Information Technology schedules a weekly maintenance window on Sundays from 7am to 1pm Eastern time. On Memorial Day weekend, our maintenance window will be extended to 5:00 pm Friday May 28th – to 11:59 pm on Monday, May 31st, 2021.  This yearly maintenance outage is listed as “University Computer Services Unavailable” on the

Marshall University Information Technology is applying a major upgrade to the email firewall service, called Barracuda Essentials, on Sunday, May 19, 2019. Barracuda Essentials provides advanced protection against fraudulent email for both Faculty/Staff email (on-premise Exchange) and Student email (Office365). It also provides security for outgoing mail to external sources, assisting in the discovery and

Information Technology is currently developing and will be deploying an updated version of the Windows 10 image to all public University Computing Facility (UCF) sites beginning June 15th, 2019. UCF sites are centrally managed computing facilities where students can find a computer workstation with standardized software (Drinko Library, SH 532, CH 330/332, HH 444).  

Marshall University Information Technology is announcing a new service which will allow enhanced protection for their Office 365 services using Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA for short or two-factor authentication). Once activated, you will receive a secondary authentication notice on your mobile device which you must approve to access MFA-protected applications such as e-mail, OneDrive, O365 ProPlus

Below is an update from MATLAB: If you have installed MATLAB on a platform that is impacted by a support change. MathWorks periodically updates platform support and has made the following changes: New Platforms Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: Support begins with R2018b. SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15: Support begins with R2018b. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15: Support begins with

Faculty and staff are invited to join Libraries and Online Learning and the Division of Information Technology for the 2018 Drinko Open House from 3 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 5, on the 3rd floor of the Drinko Library and Information Center on the Huntington campus. During the event, guests will be encouraged to take

  Come join us! Students, faculty and staff are invited to attend a Tech-up Open House Wednesday, August 29 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Drinko Library and Information Center Room 138 on the Huntington campus. Brush up on your technology skills in navigating the library’s electronic resources and services and using Blackboard through MUOnLine.  IT

Marshall University students, faculty and staff who require the Adobe Creative Cloud software as part of their academic program or job function now have new and expanded access to this software suite. This licensing enhancement expands the use to not only select University-owned computers, but also allows installation on an additional device including a personally-owned

Emeritus Vice President of Information Technology Dr. Arnold Miller has authored an e-book with Jack L. Dickinson, a staff member of the Special Collections Department of Morrow Library. This e-book “In the Beginning… A Legacy of Computing at Marshall University” is on the early computing history of Marshall University. It covers the 40 years between

The IBM/SPSS software starts alerting our campus software users about the upcoming expiration 30-days in advance each time the application is launched.  Marshall University users can ignore these alerts regarding our current SPSS license that has a renewal anniversary date of 2/28/2018.  The annual license renewal requisition process started several weeks ago and should be