DoIT News
Information technology news items of interest to the Creighton community appear here.
Nov 09, 2011
Extended Time for Weekly Routine Maintenance Window
While routine maintenance is performed on university systems each Friday evening (10:00 p.m.-2:00 a.m.), beginning Friday, January 6th, the maintenance window will begin at 10:00 p.m. and will last until 4:00 a.m.
During weekly maintenance, IT staff perform routine campus network systems upgrades and maintenance which may result in some systems and applications being unavailable during the indicated hours.
Communication of work to be completed during the weekly maintenance window can be found by subscribing to the DoIT_Alert listserve.
If you have questions or concerns, please contact the Service Desk at 402-280-1111. Learn More...
Oct 01, 2011
Support Desk Locations and Scheduling Service Appointments
The DoIT Student Support Desk is in located in the lower level of the Reinert Library. The Faculty/Staff Support Desk is located on the first floor of the Old Gym.
Both locations require scheduled appointments for service issues. If you would like to schedule an appointment, log onto the website at: http://www.creighton.edu/servicedesk/ and click the "schedule an appointment" link.
If you have any questions, please contact the Support Desk at 402-280-1111. Learn More...
Sep 01, 2011
CUAlert: Are You Receiving Critical Notices?
The ability to communicate in an emergency or crisis situation is important for any college or university campus. To assist us in our communication efforts, Creighton University has an emergency and information broadcast system, CUAlert. You can register to receive emergency communications by registering for phone, email or text messaging.
CUAlert will send out a brief message that will inform our campus community about an emergency or crisis situation. We encourage all members of the campus community to subscribe to this service.
To receive CUAlert communications, you must register your phone number(s), email and/or text capable phone device.
Registration is easy. Simply log on to the following link:
If you have any questions, please contact the Service Desk at 402-280-1111. Learn More...
Aug 01, 2011
Campus Calendar
Do you know what is happening on campus? Would you like to share information about a campus event you are hosting? It's easy with the official Creighton University calendar. Simply click on the link to review events and to request the posting of an event. Learn More...
Aug 01, 2011
NEVER SHARE YOUR PASSWORD!
ALERT - Never share personal information or data!
Phishing Scams: Never share your password with anyone! Do not reply to any e-mail asking to verify your personal data or click on unfamiliar links. Creighton will NEVER ask you to provide personal information (i.e. SSN, IDs, passwords, Credit Card information, PIN numbers, etc) via e-mail.
Contact DoIT right away at 402-280-1111 or servicedesk@creighton.edu to ask for clarification of such e-mails.
Contact the Support Desk if you have questions or concerns. 280-1111
Sep 02, 2010
DoIT_Official Messaging Information
In our continued efforts to combat phishing and other scam messages, the University has added another layer to make it easier for email recipients to identify legitimate messages from scams.
Legitimate messages from IT regarding issues such as password expiration or similar high sensitivity items will be sent from the email address of “DoIT_Official”.
What this means is:
1. If you receive an email reporting problems with your account or password and it does not come from DoIT_Official you will immediately know it is suspicious and you may want to consult with the DoIT Service Desk.
2. If you receive a message from DoIT_Official, there is a high likelihood that the message is legitimate but you need to look for other signs that it could still indicate the message is suspect. Creighton IT will never ask you to visit a non-Creighton website to resolve system problems; Creighton will never ask you to reply to an email message with personal information, especially not to a non-Creighton email address; Creighton will never ask you to send or submit your password or other sensitive personal information in order to solve an IT problem or complete an IT upgrade; we don’t know your password and will never need it to resolve IT issues.
Any of these situations are indicators that the message is not legitimate no matter who sends the message.
As always, NEVER give out your password for any reason. DoIT will NEVER ask you for your password.
Contact the Support Desk (x1111) if you have questions or concerns about the legitimacy of any email message.
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