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Campus Wireless project now complete

Thursday, September 10, 2015

Thanks to a recent expansion of wireless networking services on campus, students now have twice as many access points for Wi-Fi. IT Shared Services Data Communications in coordination with UNT's University Information Technology recently completed a major expansion of wireless networking services on the UNT Denton main and Discovery Park campuses. When the UNT wireless project started in December 2013 there were approximately 700 access points for students to access Wi-Fi. With the project now complete, there are more than 1,400 access points.

UNT System Information Security launches Phishing Awareness campaign

Illustration of a fish jumping out of a computer monitor.
Wednesday, September 2, 2015

One of the most common techniques hackers use to gain sensitive information from people is phishing, which is a fraudulent email attempt to lure people into sharing their personal, financial, and other sensitive information. Once the information is shared, the hackers then use that information to gain access to personal accounts. Every day, phishing scams are becoming more sophisticated, so an employee needs to be aware of phishing techniques to avoid your work email account and compromised information.

Employees enjoy use of OneDrive for Business

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Many employees are enjoying the use of a digital workspace thanks to Microsoft Office 365, OneDrive for Business.  Information Technology Shared Services began migrating faculty and staff to the new cloud application in June 2014.
As a digital workspace, the OneDrive Desktop Application lets you easily sync files between your computer, mobile devices or multiple computers. You can choose specific folders to sync or drag and drop items from your PC to your OneDrive folder to seamlessly connect your documents and files for 1 TB of cloud storage.