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9/8/04 Sample Issue

-- Identity Misrepresentation and Theft Web Site Goes Live (9/7/04)
-- Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 Discs Available (9/3/04)
-- New Phone Numbers and Dialing Patterns for University Housing (9/2/04)
-- VirusScan 8 for Windows Available (9/2/04)
-- E-Mail Mailboxes and IFS Home Directories Increased for Fall (9/1/04)
-- E-Mail Upgrade Finished (8/22/04)

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Identity Misrepresentation and Theft Web Site Goes Live
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The new Identity Misrepresentation and Theft web site serves as a campus clearinghouse on issues pertaining to identity misrepresentation and theft.
<http://www.itd.umich.edu/news/2004fall/09072004a.html>

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 Discs Available
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Microsoft has provided discs with Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies to U-M at no charge for use on personally owned computers. ITCS is distributing these discs to the U-M community.
<http://www.itd.umich.edu/news/2004fall/09032004a.html>

New Phone Numbers and Dialing Patterns for University Housing
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Telephone numbers for students living in University Housing Residence Halls and Northwood Single Student Housing have changed. The phone numbers in these locations are now in the 565 exchange. The 565 exchange is a campus exchange, but it requires a different dialing pattern than other campus exchanges. This is because there is already another campus exchange (615) that ends in a 5, making five-digit dialing to the new exchange impossible.
<http://www.itd.umich.edu/news/2004fall/09022004a.html>

VirusScan 8 for Windows Available
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VirusScan 8 for Windows (antivirus software) was released by McAfee on August 25, and the Virus Busters Team has created a U-M preconfigured VirusScan installer. The Virus Busters recommend that all U-M users of Windows NT4, 2000, XP, and 2003 Server upgrade to VirusScan 8.0 as soon as possible.
<http://www.itd.umich.edu/news/2004fall/09022004b.html>

E-Mail Mailboxes and IFS Home Directories Increased for Fall
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Changes to the Basic Computing Package (BCP) that all registered students, faculty, and regular staff members receive took effect September 1. BCP recipients now have 200 MB mailboxes and 1 GB IFS home directories. MichNet dial-in access is now free of charge. Students continue to receive 400 pages of black-and-white printing at Campus Computing Sites per term, but the printing allocation for faculty and staff has been reduced to 50 pages per term.
<http://www.itd.umich.edu/news/2004fall/09012004a.html>

E-Mail Upgrade Finished
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The ITCS e-mail service was upgraded over the August 20-22 weekend. The upgrade included new architecture, new hardware, a new operating system (Linux), and new e-mail software.
<http://www.itd.umich.edu/news/2004spring/08122004a.html>

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10/20/04 Sample Issue

-- ITCS Now Does Third-Party Top-Level Domain Name Registration (10/18/04)
-- DHCP Service Offered to U-M Units at No Charge (10/18/04)
-- Please Help Test Login Service on Linux (10/11/04)
-- E-Mail Restored After September 23 Outage (9/24/04)
-- Recently Released or Revised ITCS Documentation (9/14/04)

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ITCS Now Does Third-Party Top-Level Domain Name Registration
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ITCS's Hostmaster Group can now register third-party top-level domain names for U-M units. Top-level domains include .org, .net, .com, .info, .us, and others. The cost is $15 per year.
<http://www.itd.umich.edu/news/2004fall/10182004a.html>

DHCP Service Offered to U-M Units at No Charge
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DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is a service that allows machines to get their IP addresses and other information assigned by the network rather than having to have this done manually by a person. The ITCS Hostmaster Group is now offering DHCP service for any school or department network on campus at no charge.
<http://www.itd.umich.edu/news/2004fall/10182004b.html>

Please Help Test Login Service on Linux
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ITCS is piloting a new version of the ITCS Login Service on Linux. It will run concurrently with the existing Login Service, which is on the Solaris operating system, at least until the end of Winter Term 2005. Please try using it.
<http://www.itd.umich.edu/news/2004fall/10112004a.html>

E-Mail Restored After September 23 Outage
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After an outage on September 23, access to ITCS's e-mail service was restored on September 24.
<http://www.itd.umich.edu/news/2004fall/09242004a.html>

Recently Released or Revised ITCS Documentation
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A number of new ITCS documents have been written and others have been revised. Several documents were revised to reflect changes in the Basic Computing Package, such as the increase in mailbox size from 50 to 200 MB. In addition, several Windows dial-in documents were updated.
<http://www.itd.umich.edu/news/2004fall/09142004a.html>

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Editor: Janet Eaton (jmfeaton@umich.edu)

To subscribe, send an e-mail message to NewsfromITCS-request@umich.edu with the word SUBSCRIBE as the subject of your message.
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