Updates
IS&T has welcomed six summer interns this year and is pleased to introduce them to the MIT community.
Microsoft Teams is now available to MIT community members through Office 365.
To help mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 and best support MIT community members as they engage in activities remotely, IS&T has increased its capacity for BeyondTrust’s (formerly Bomgar) Secure Remote Support software, and will begin offering the service to all IT support providers today, free of charge.
MIT Webex users now have the option to use end-to-end encryption for meetings requiring a higher level of security.
To help mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 and best support MIT community members as they engage in activities away from campus, IS&T is pleased to announce the beta launch of a new cloud-based remote access VPN service for MIT.
MIT does not recommend allowing attendees to join any Zoom session without requiring either Touchstone authentication or a meeting password.
IS&T has updated the Webex conferencing platform to enable the automatic creation of transcripts for all recorded meetings and events by default.
MIT has increased Dropbox default storage quotas to 500 GB for all MIT users; faculty, lecturers, and Spring 2020 TAs get 10 TB.
With Slack Enterprise Grid, MIT faculty, students, and staff are eligible to create Slack workspaces and all members of the extended MIT community are eligible to participate in MIT’s Slack workspaces.
IS&T is taking action to reduce the number of people on campus by shifting staff to remote work, minimizing time spent on campus and ensuring the continuity of IS&T’s operating activities.