Kategorie: ‘Announcements’
Changed Opening Hours During Carnival

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As the data center of a Rhenish university rich in tradition, the IT Center of RWTH Aachen University also enjoys the fifth season.
Therefore, there will be changes in the opening hours of the IT ServiceDesk over the carnival days:
Two Years Omnichannel
In most cases, the IT-ServiceDesk is the first point of contact for technical problems concerning the services of RWTH Aachen University.

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But how do you contact us?
Of course, in the way that is most convenient for you. Either via our chat support, by mail, by phone or via our ticket portal.
In order for you to be able to report in any way you want and at the same time for us to be able to handle any incoming request efficiently and with high quality, the Omnichannel tool was introduced.
And now we are celebrating the two-year anniversary of this tool. Thanks to this tool, for the past two years we have been able to manage customer requests more easily and efficiently, as we now have them from chat and phone bundled in one system.
#Goodtoknow – Services in the spotlight – Part 2
Look out!
There is again useful knowledge about some of the RWTH’s services.
Today for you: Interesting facts about our communication tools.

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(Cisco Jabber, DFNconf, Microsoft Teams and Zoom).
Automated SSL certificates for hosted websites

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Finally, the time has come. Since December 06, 2022 hosted websites are automatically converted to “https” and provided with corresponding SSL certificates. The best thing about it? You don’t have to worry about anything anymore. Read the rest of this entry »
New SSID – RWTH institutes – in the WLAN
RWTH Aachen University offers wireless data communication (via WLAN) to all WLAN enabled devices throughout the university. This WLAN service is offered by WLAN access points.

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These access points broadcast one or more SSID’s, which the devices can connect with and thus get internet access. The term SSID stands for Service Set Identifier and is simply the name of a WLAN network. RWTH offers many SSID’s such as:
- eduroam for students, employees and guests of participating institutes
- RWTH-guests for quests without an eduroam identification
- RWTH-devices for IoT devices, e.g. measuring instruments and sensors
New Web Layout for the IT Center Website

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The IT Center website has recently been relaunched with a new design. We attach great importance on clearly communicating the customer orientation, reliability and stability of our IT services, especially for our international customers. This is why we decided to re-design the structure of our website. The new website provides you with all the information you need about the IT Center as the central IT facility of RWTH Aachen University and as an educational institution, about our basic services as well as individual services, research foci, projects, cooperations and much more.
With the revision of the contents, however, some web addresses may have changed. So please remember to adjust your favorites according to the new web addresses. Read the rest of this entry »
Changed Opening Hours of the IT-ServiceDesk on December 14, 2022

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Due to an internal event, the IT-ServiceDesk will be open at limited hours with a reduced offer on Wednesday, December 14, 2022.
During the time from 7:30am to 4pm the IT-ServiceDesk can be contacted as follows: Read the rest of this entry »
Changed Opening Hours of the IT-ServiceDesk on December 9, 2022

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Due to an internal event, the IT-ServiceDesk will only be open for you during limited opening hours on Friday, December 9, 2022.
For personal contact, our locations below will be open for you at the following times on this day: Read the rest of this entry »
Introduction of Adobe SeviRe

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From now on, Adobe can be found in the Selfsevice of Virtual Resources (SeviRe). RWTH employees who have the role of „IT-purchaser” now have the option to manage licenses for Adobe there.
Included products are Adobe Acrobat Pro DC and Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps pro. Read the rest of this entry »
News From the Areas of Servers, Storage and Server Hosting

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We have some news to announce since our last status report from the Systems & Operation Department (SuB). Since December 1, 2021, there are new framework agreements for the procurement of servers and SAN storage systems. In the Virtual Server Hosting section, we have updated information on the infrastructure, the updated VM limits of Virtual Server Hosting as well as new processes for ordering VMs. Stay tuned to learn more about virtual machines and resources at RWTH Aachen University.


