These web-based room schedulers from Steelcase have been spotted outside select meeting spaces in the MIT Libraries, CSAIL, the Sloan School, and IS&T.
IS&T now supports FileMaker 12 for Macintosh and Windows at MIT. IS&T will continue to support FileMaker 11 users, but will be ending support for FileMaker 10.
Microsoft has announced that they will terminate extended support for Windows XP SP3 on April 8, 2014. To prepare XP users at MIT for this deadline, IS&T is planning to phase out support for XP by August 1, 2013 (not 2012).
As part of an effort to improve the performance and usability of the MIT Wiki Service, IS&T will begin an annual archiving of wiki spaces starting this summer.
June 6 marks the launch of a web-based application that automates creating and making changes to hourly-paid student appointments at MIT.
IS&T strongly encourages you to take safety precautions with your laptop before traveling and/or working remotely.
IS&T is planning a multistage rollout of the Casper Suite – a comprehensive platform for managing Mac OS X computers. This software will enable IT administrators at MIT to oversee inventory, software distribution, settings, and security.
Information Services Technology (IS&T) and the Office of the Vice President for Finance (VPF) have collaborated to publish two introductory web-based courses on SAP for the community.
IS&T installed this web-based reporting tool last spring and is now doing a soft rollout to the MIT community that includes hands-on classes.
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