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RT hits new milestone - 700,000 tickets

RT went live on February 23, 2009 for a small number of departments to track trouble tickets via a web based solution. Today, at 10:24am, RT registered ticket #700,000 and it was not a trouble...

Posted: May 31, 2016, 3:52 PM

RT Scheduled Downtime for Friday 6-3-2016 from 5pm-7pm

DoIT's Enterprise Infrastructure Support (EIS) group will be performing Quarterly Patching this weekend beginning Friday, June 3rd at 5pm. For a full report please review the EIS notice posted May...

Posted: May 31, 2016, 3:11 PM

Quarterly Patching Friday June 3rd and Saturday June 4th

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Friday June 3rd and Saturday June 4th.  While many of the systems...

Posted: May 27, 2016, 4:22 PM

Clicker License Codes to be Emailed to UMBC Students

License codes will be sent out to students starting May 23

As the campus begins the migration to TurningPoint Cloud this summer, students who purchased and registered their clickers on Blackboard prior to March 1, 2016  will receive Turning Account...

Posted: May 20, 2016, 12:28 PM

Windows 10 Free Upgrade for Personal Machines Ends July 29th

Upgrade for free otherwise pay $120 license for home version

DoIT would like the UMBC community to know that Microsoft's deadline for a free upgrade to Windows 10 is ending on July 29th, 2016. If you are running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 and do not take...

Posted: May 11, 2016, 1:27 PM

Online Learning Consortium Offers Free Faculty Training

Expand Your Online Knowledge During Summer 2016

Through a University System of Maryland partnership with the Online Learning Consortium (OLC), DoIT is pleased to offer an exceptional online training opportunity to UMBC full-time and part-time...

Posted: May 11, 2016, 10:09 AM

DoIT's Technology Support Center Now Hiring for the Summer

Are you looking for an on campus job? Come work for us!

The DoIT Technology Support Center is looking to hire additional consultants to work during the Summer. Please see our job description below and visit our job posting on UMBCWorks to apply. The...

Posted: May 11, 2016, 10:07 AM

LDAP-Master and Webadmin downtime on 6/2

****CHANGE OF DATE***** On Thursday, June 2nd starting at 2pm LDAP-Master and Webadmin will be taken down for system maintenance.  During this time account creations and password changes will...

Posted: May 9, 2016, 2:42 PM

MATLAB is Now Available to UMBC Students

Available for Windows, Linux, Mac, and UNIX Systems

MATLAB handles a range of computing tasks in engineering and science. There are several built in tools that integrates mathematical computing and visualization. The MATLAB interface also allows...

Posted: May 9, 2016, 8:22 AM