Kategorie: ‘Support, Services & Updates’
Tips & Tricks for Microsoft Outlook
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Microsoft Outlook is a popular software that is mainly used for managing e-mails and appointments. You use it to receive and send your e-mails, coordinate appointments, maintain contacts, and manage tasks. Despite the fact that it is frequently used on a daily basis, one doesn’t necessarily know all of its functions. For this reason, we have compiled six useful tips for you below, which will make using Outlook even easier.
Please note that some functions are available in Microsoft Outlook, but do not work or work differently in the web application. The tips and tricks mentioned here refer to the Microsoft Outlook software, which is included in the Office package. Read the rest of this entry »
Don’t Despair – Contact the IT Center!
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You study at RWTH Aachen University or even work for the university and encounter technical challenges from time to time? Then this is the right blog post for you! Here we will show you how you can best find a remedy and how you can reach us if things do get tricky.
#Goodtoknow – Services in the spotlight – Part 2
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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
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 »
Backup-Changeover 2022 – Our Support Offer
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backup-changeover 2022 is what is described as a Major Change in change management. In context Datensicherung.nrw, we are moving to Commvault’s backup software solution at RWTH and many universities in NRW. For many users, this far-reaching change also means that they are not only getting involved with a new software solution, but with many other changes. At RWTH Aachen University, which provides the service as a service provider center for a number of universities, a complex but highly available new platform for the backup infrastructure has been set up over the past few months. In addition to the technical innovations, we have also initiated a completely new support offering: Backup Consulting Day
TSM Backup “Read Only”
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Attention!
As part of the backup transition 2022, a new platform for data backup and recovery has been built at RWTH Aachen University in the last months. Together with the manufacturers Hitachi Vantara and Commvault, the backup team of the IT Center has set up a new backup infrastructure, which in the future will not only provide the RWTH, but also other universities in NRW with the Datensicherung.nrw service.
In this context, we are gradually saying goodbye to the previous backup solution, the “TSM backup”.
