We heard back from a number of users on campus who tried out SharePoint after reading our initial announcement about it back in April.
Here are some important things we have learned:
1.) Staff members seemed to like the idea of being able to set up a team site in SharePoint as a place where their committee […]
Stony Brook University’s Division of Information Technology recently issued its second edition of DoIT News. It is a newsletter geared towards faculty and staff that is currently being published once a semester. The big news item this spring was the announcement of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) being available on campus. For those who did […]
It’s the first day of classes for the Spring 2008 semester and we have a line of students in Client Support with a variety of computer registration issues. Last fall, we put together a list of the typical problems our technicians were seeing when they were helping Stony Brook students register their computers and gain […]
Attention Students!
Sunday, Jan. 27
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Computer Registration Assistance at the SAC’s Traditions Lounge
Welcome back for the start of the Spring 2008 semester. Client Support and the Division of Information Technology will be here to help make sure your computer is hooked up, registered, and ready to go.
From 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. on […]
Do you know about UBMicro?
UBMicro is affiliated with the State University of New York at Buffalo and serves as an authorized, higher education reseller of computer products. Having this status enables UBMicro to sell computer hardware and software at educational discounts. Prices are often hundreds of dollars less than local and Internet retailers. SUNY institutions […]
One of our clients at the Stony Brook Foundation figured out how to customize her toolbars in Microsoft Excel 2007. She didn’t care for the new tabbed ribbon toolbar. She wanted to revert back to the small icons that she was used to working with on a regular basis in Excel 2003.
When you choose to […]
MySBfiles is 500 MB of file storage offered to each Stony Brook student and employee. It makes working in different locations easier.
Students can work on a paper in their dorm room late at night, save it to their MySBfiles, then go to a SINC Site the next day before class and print out the paper […]
Are you trying to register your computer on Stony Brook’s residential network, but having trouble? Here is a list of the most common registration problems Client Support has seen from students in the past week and some possible solutions. Some of the problems have to do with the Client Assessment Tool (CAT), some have to […]
Diana Voss from Teaching, Learning + Technology (TLT) has created a blog dedicated to Blackboard.
We’ve just added it to our Blogroll.
The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) is gearing up for the start of the 2007-08 school year. This week, volunteers from each of the six departments that comprise DoIT gathered for a "working breakfast" to review course material that will be presented to more than 2,600 students in 120 sections of Freshman Seminar 101, a […]