Software News Archive

Access to the campus-licensed versions of the IBM/SPSS statistical software is currently unavailable due an issue with software licensing. Marshall IT is working with the vendor to expedite the delivery of the updated software license keys. This issue is expected to be resolved by mid-week (7/13/2022). If you have an on-campus computer or use SPSS

On Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 9:00 am, during Information Technology’s normally scheduled maintenance window, IT will be performing a network failover test.  There will likely be a temporary outage of many of our IT services during this failover test.  We will be using the test results to help improve our network and datacenter resiliency

Level of impact:  Medium  Marshall University Information Technology is planning to decommission our On-Premise SharePoint 2013 environment at the end of the year 2021. Existing sites will need to be migrated to avoid losing access and data.  Who does it affect? If you are receiving this message, you have been identified as an administrator of a SharePoint site in

Marshall’s contract with Blackboard Collaborate Ultra will not be renewed after July 1, 2021. You have been identified as a user who has engaged as a moderator during this summer so far. All summer courses will have access to the Collaborate tool through the end of all summer terms. Important:  All Collaborate recordings will be

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).  

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

The Marshall University IT team receives occasional questions from faculty and staff about the Microsoft Home Use Program (HUP for short). Hopefully this article will help answer a number of those questions. Several times a year, e-mail offers are sent out from the Microsoft Home Use Program advertising a $9.95 upgrade for Microsoft Office. These