ISSUE 2 ♦ Dec 2015
ICTO migrated thousands of staff email accounts to Outlook
ICTO is making great progress in the migration of staff email accounts from Lotus Notes to Outlook. Since July 2015 until today, more than 1350 of the 1593 individual staff email accounts have been migrated to Outlook.
UM@Connect registration status
In this academic year, UM@Connect – the student’s lifelong email service is launched by ICTO. After three months since its commencement, over 1700 students have already registered UM@Connect. Meanwhile, we have received many queries about UM@Connect. Here we have listed [...]
New Secure Email Gateway
The computer network attacks have become more frequent and severe in recent years. We keep receiving phishing emails which are targeted at our users. Phishing is an Internet scam where scam artists send official-looking emails to people, attempting to fool [...]
Relocation of Add-Value Machine and Kiosk
The "Add-Value Machine" for E-purse and "Kiosk" at the atrium of BOC Centennial Building (E3) had been reallocated to room E6-G111i (inside the Learning Commons) of Central Teaching Building (E6) on 14 October, 2015. The service hours are still 24 hours a day. [...]
All ICTO Staff Passed ITIL Foundation Certification
In the month of October and November, 2015 ICTO organised an internal ITIL Foundation training for staff members. All ICTO staff members have attended ITIL Foundation training, passed the examination and received ITIL Foundation certification. ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) [...]
Training update
ICTO had organized training classes for UM staff members from September to November, 2015. These training classes included Microsoft Office 2013, Outlook 2013, Access 2013 and SharePoint 2013. All the training classes were conducted by Microsoft certified trainers. We have [...]
JUCC-SIGUS meeting held in UM
ICTO, University of Macau is one of the affiliated members of Joint Universities Computer Centre (JUCC). As an affiliated member of JUCC, ICTO had joined two of the work groups of JUCC, they are JUCC Information Security Task Force (IS [...]
eduroam Service
eduroam (education roaming) is a secure, world-wide wireless LAN roaming service developed for the international research and education community. At this moment, eduroam is available in 74 countries or regions world-wide. For the eduroam Macao, the University of Macau is [...]
Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus
What is Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus? University of Macau subscribed Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus. All UM staff and students can now use their computer account to register Office 365 ProPlus account. Office 365 is a full suite of productivity tools [...]
Phishing emails
Phishing definition on Wikipedia refers to the attempt to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and sometimes, indirectly, money), often for malicious reasons, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Source: http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/phishing-symptoms.aspx [...]
How to backup your data to prevent data loss?
ICTO would like to remind you to back up your computer data frequently in order to prevent from any data loss. UM staff can use "Uranium Backup" software to backup specific folders and files to your own backup folder. Run [...]