OIT News and Announcements
- SECURITY WARNING: Beware email with Subject "Important Notification" Sep 29, 2022, 1:10 PM CDT
Alert from the Information Security Office: Phishing Email Targeting Campus Accounts (click title to read more)
- NEWS: Learning Environments Newsletter, September 2022 Sep 26, 2022, 5:30 PM CDT
Keeping faculty updated on teaching technology tools and upcoming instructor training workshops.
- SERVICE UPDATE: Home Drive (U: drive) Storage Service Decommission (ongoing) Sep 28, 2022, 10:01 AM CDT
The process of decommissioning the personal home drive (known as the U: drive) started in December 2021. OIT has publishing guides for self-migration and can offer assisted or automated migrations to alternative cloud storage locations. (NOTE: Group or Departmental storage drives are not part of these service changes.)
- SERVICE UPDATE: Google Workspace Storage Limitations (deadline 12-2022) Jul 6, 2022, 5:43 PM CDT
Google Workspace is no longer provide unlimited storage to education customers. Under the new agreement, the Google Workspace for Education storage for Rice must now be limited for all faculty, staff, students and visitors. Beginning December 2021 Rice OIT will begin notifying individuals who exceed the new quotas and provide assistance to migrate Google Drive items to an alternative service.
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