Services News Archive

(Please don’t let this this be you.) The Marshall University Information Technology team have received a number of reports from faculty and staff who have been recipients of a new twist on an old e-mail scam.   You may have heard of phishing before, but these scams are referred to as whaling.  They use a “big

Informational message to individuals who have already registered for Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). No action on your part is needed. A recent configuration change to the Marshall University Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) system now suppresses verification requests when you are connected via the campus network. This change bypasses the need to verify your on-campus logons to

Microsoft is announcing a new Office 365 feature for To-Do & Planner Integration. We’ll begin rolling this feature out soon. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 48624 How does this affect me?  Users who opt-in to the Planner integration will be able to see and edit tasks they have been assigned to in

  Stop by our Drinko Pop Up table in the MSC on Tuesday, March 12th from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for help enrolling in MFA.  If you miss our event, you an stop by the IT Service Desk at any time if you need assistance.

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

01/09/19 –  Please note:  Additional updates will be added to the bottom of this post. Marshall University Information Technology has been working with campus employees as we switch over to Banner 9 from the Banner 8 User Interface.  Ellucian, our Banner vendor, will no longer provide updates to Banner 8 after January 1, 2019.  We have

Marshall University will be migrating all V: Drive storage to Microsoft OneDrive in the coming months. We will be creating V: Drive space for all new students for the 2019 spring term but will no longer provision V: Drive space for new users after February 2019.  We are continuing through February to accommodate any faculty

Marshall University Information Technology has received the following from MatLab/MathWorks: “MathWorks recently introduced “Updates” available between the normal twice-yearly releases of MATLAB and Simulink. Each of these Updates contains a cumulative set of bug and security fixes that you can apply to an existing installation. Starting in R2018b, users will receive notification on the MATLAB

The Marshall University Information Technology (IT) department is participating in National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) to raise awareness of Cyber Security issues. Throughout the month of October, Marshall IT will continue to share information from the national campaign. Week 4 will emphasize the importance of securing our critical infrastructure and highlight the roles the public

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