News

July 2021

• Looking for someone? MS Teams can help!

  

  If you have been using the Employee Directory to look up your colleagues’ information, you might want to consider the Microsoft Teams search function! Check out four ways to optimize your everyday tasks. 

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• TOPdesk migrates to Canadian Data Centre

  

  In April 2021, Information Technology successfully migrated TOPdesk, its Service management system, to the new Canadian Data centre. Discover the advantages.

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• 7 home automation ideas to innovate your living space

  

  At uOttawa’s IT, technology is part of our lifestyle. Here are a few ideas from our IT staff, Paul Mercier and Louis Brousseau, to help you conceptualize your dream house, with amazing home automation!

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• Do we measure up? Tracking our Digital Campus Transformation Plan Progress!

  

  Learn more about our journey with Key Performance Indicators (KPI), and how it ties up with the Digital Campus Transformation Plan’s (DCTP) vision: Innovate to enrich our community’s user experience and partner to build the university of tomorrow.

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• Mini-CANHEIT 2021

  

  Join us to celebrate the best of uOttawa IT`s presentations from the CANHEIT conference at the mini-CANHEIT event, happening on July 21st and July 26th from 1 PM to 4 PM. 

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• High Performance Summer School 2021

  

  The upcoming Ontario East High-Performance Computing (HPC) Summer School 2021 will take place August 16-26, featuring workshops guided by experts from Queen's University, the University of Ottawa, University of Waterloo, and McMaster University. Learn more about this event.

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• Meet Lyra Trstenjak, Information Technology’s first student champion

  

  We know student work terms involve hard work and new challenges. To make them more rewarding and engaging, Lyra Trstenjak was appointed as the first student champion. Here is what she had to say about her role and experience so far.

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• Enhancing academic accommodations: Ingredients for success

  

  Continuous communication, effective management, a collaborative team, and accurate process definition. These are the key factors that contributed to the success of recent changes to the academic accommodations process. Thanks to a collaborative effort, new system functionalities have transformed the digital experience.

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• How to force updates on your Windows computer

  

  To update Windows on the computer provided by the University or your personal one, follow these steps:

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• Windows vulnerability: PrintNightmare

  A security vulnerability for Windows users is now in circulation, nicknamed PrintNightmare which exploits a print loophole within Microsoft’s operating system allowing cybercriminals to execute with system-level privileges on your computer and affects versions of Windows.    

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