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Did you know that phishing and account compromises have seen a significant worldwide increase since the start of the pandemic? Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) enrolment significantly reduces instances of an account compromise by over 99%. To deliver this added benefit to student accounts, all new students will be required to enrol into MFA.

Since the mid-1990s, the AIX1 and AIX2 servers have hosted websites belonging to professors, support staff and students, many of which are still active. However, the technology on these machines is largely obsolete. For this reason, we are decommissioning these servers and advise users with websites hosted on them to migrate their information to another platform.

A new Research Software Development team is geared up to start software development projects from the uOttawa research community. Check out how we’re building a research support community and planning to deliver new resources, tools and workshops soon. 

World Backup Day is an opportunity to inform you about the importance of backing up your data. Read more about why you should backup, its importance and how you should do it. 

Problem resolved: March 24, 1:00 p.m.

Discover MS Teams new features.

Chatbots have become an essential tool in the user experience, providing quick and efficient answers to users’ questions, often without having to disrupt a human employee. Chatbots work as a supplement, not a replacement, for the human workforce – chatbots and online chats with humans are used in tandem to provide information to the user.