Information Technology Services (ITS), working in conjunction with Facilities and the Office of Extended Learning (OEL), will be completing some necessary maintenance on December 28th, 2020 from 12:01 am to midnight. Throughout that 24 hour period, access to most services hosted on the Flint campus will be intermittent. This will include but is not limited
Security Alert: Extortion emails with old passwords in the subject line
The Office of Information Technology Services (ITS) would like to alert users that scammers are once again attempting to take advantage of users on our campus. Information Assurance, on the Ann Arbor campus, has seen an uptick of extortion emails that will often contain an old personal password in the subject line. This can be
Remote Resource Guide
Dear Campus Community, As many of you are actively involved in preparing your Continuity of Operations guides, I would like to encourage you to take some steps to be prepared. ITS has prepared the Remote Resource Guide to assist you in this endeavour. In this guide we have compiled information from the ITS Support Center
Mcard and Parking Permit – Winter 2020
Campus Forms Transition
As you may have heard, ITS will be discontinuing our FormAssembly service. The developers of FormAssembly have ceased development of their onsite product and have moved to a costly pay-per-user cloud-based platform. What this means for you. ITS has already ended new user creation in FormAssembly. New FormAssembly forms creation will end December 1st, 2019, but
Windows 7 End Of Life
Following the lead of UM Information Assurance, the UM-Flint campus will be ending support for Windows 7 on December 31st, 2019. ITS is now in the process of upgrading all university owned computers to Windows 10. Currently, we have identified over 500 devices on campus that are still running Windows 7 and must be
New Name for Google Team Drives
Google has decided to rename “Team Drives” to “Shared Drives”. This will not affect functionality; it is only a name change. In the Google Drive web app, in the left side panel, “Team Drives” will become “Shared drives”. The names of the drives and their content should not change. File paths of content linked from
Google Transition
Google is coming! In the coming year, UM-Flint will begin to transition campus from our current Microsoft-based email and calendar system to Google’s Gmail and Calendar services. In an effort to make this transition as smooth as possible ITS will be hosting several town hall presentations where we will discuss the plans for this upcoming
Special Hours for WSW Open Computer Lab and ITS Helpdesk Tomorrow
On Tuesday, September 11th, the open computer lab and ITS Helpdesk located in 3174 William S. White building will be closed from 8 am to 2 pm for testing. At 2 pm, the lab and helpdesk will reopen for use. All other open labs will be open normal hours and the ITS Helpdesk located in
Fall 2018 Mcard Distribution
Mcard and Parking Pass distribution is happening now! Visit us in the University Pavilion! Save time by submitting your Mcard photo online at Mcard.UMFlint.edu and register your vehicle at My.UMFlint.edu. Please note that we will not be printing Mcards at the stage, so please have your MCard application filled out on mcard.umflint.edu. Any Mcards that