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<Title>UMBC Now Has a 100 Gb Connection &amp; Faster Netflix Loading</Title>
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    <div>DoIT would like to announce that UMBC now features a 100 gigabit connection speeds available on campus. In addition, there is now a Netflix node installed in the Data Center on the ground floor of the Engineering Building. </div>
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    <div>The Netflix node is a server that holds the video content that is streamed to your device. When streaming a show or movie from Netflix, your data is typically streamed from nodes deployed across the country and world. Traditionally, Netflix tries to have your stream come from a node that is closest to you, delivering the best possible streaming experience. </div>
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    <div>This is all possible thanks to the <a href="https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Netflix Open Connect program</a> and Norwin Malmberg, Chief of Network Technology at Maryland Research and Education Network (MDREN). The Netflix Open Connect program partners with Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to provide Netflix customers the highest quality viewing experience possible by localizing substantial amounts of traffic. </div>
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    <div>MDREN acts as an ISP and provides advanced network services to <a href="http://www.mdren.net/?page_id=347" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">multiple University System of Maryland (USM) schools</a>, private colleges, and community colleges throughout the state. Malmberg contacted Netflix and was able to  get membership into the Open Connect program, thanks to MDREN consuming sufficient Netflix bandwidth throughout all the varied partner campuses and organizations to qualify for a node.</div>
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    <div>UMBC volunteered to partner with MDREN and host the node on our campus to provide the best possible service to not only our student, but students throughout the state. </div>
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    <h4>"High speed connections and low network delay..."</h4>
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    <div>Mike Petry, General Associate for DoIT, helped install the node on campus on April 25th, 2016. Petry said, “The benefits to UMBC and the other USM campuses is having a node with high speed connections and low network delay that is able to serve up content to campus connected users.”</div>
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    <div><img src="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/attachments/news/000/060/005/de487db7a08250a136f966ead11da262/Traffic%20Map.png" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></div>
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    <div><em>A network map that shows how UMBC is connected to the MDREN network. The streaming is outbound from the node toward the customer watching a stream. The node is physically on campus, but should be viewed as being on the MDREN network. You can <a href="http://www.mdren.net/maps/umbc.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">view the bits per second here</a> and hover over each path.   </em></div>
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    <h4><strong>“Netflix knows what content is on which servers and will direct a server that does have it to start streaming it to you.” </strong></h4>
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    <div>Users won't have to do anything on their part and instead just stream Netflix on their device as they normally would, as the server selection for delivering your stream is done behind the scenes by Netflix software. “For instance, you may requests a movie that isn't on the server on campus.” Petry said, “Netflix knows what content is on which servers and will direct a server that does have it to start streaming it to you. The win for them is to have the most popular content as close as possible to avoid long network paths.”</div>
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    <div>Happy streaming.</div>
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<Title>Quarterly Patching Friday June 3rd and Saturday June 4th</Title>
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    <div><span>As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Friday June 3rd and Saturday June 4th.  While many of the systems will be patched without any service disruption, there are several systems which require the downtime of key services.  The schedule below outlines which key services will be offline and for how long. </span></div>
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    <ul><li><p>RT will be down from 5<span>pm to 7pm</span></p></li></ul>
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    <li><p>The new web hosting environment will be down (pages will be available but any database calls will not work)<br></p></li>
    <span><li><p>Student mySQL databases will be offline</p></li></span>
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    <li><p>Access to Cyrus and UMBC Webmail (accounts not migrated to UMBC Gmail)</p></li>
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    <li><p>All mail will be queued up and delivered after the server is patched</p></li>
    <li><p>Expected to be unreachable from <span>6pm to 8pm</span></p></li>
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    <li><p>All HFS (user) servers will be offline</p></li>
    <li><p>Userpages will be unavailable<br></p></li>
    <li><p>License5 will be down (autodesk, cadence, idl, schrodinger, xilinx, mathematica)</p></li>
    <li><p>Perseus will be unavailable</p></li>
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    <div>Saturday June 4th (work will begin at 9:00am and conclude by 11:00am with the systems only being down a portion of that time)</div>
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    <li><span>myUMBC lite page will be up resulting in reduced myUMBC functionality</span></li>
    <li><span>Wiki will be unavailable</span></li>
    <li><span>The sites (wordpress) web hosting environment will be unreachable</span></li>
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<Title>Windows 10 Free Upgrade for Personal Machines Ends July 29th</Title>
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    <div>DoIT would like the UMBC community to know that Microsoft's deadline for a free upgrade to Windows 10 is ending on July 29th, 2016. If you are running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 and do not take advantage of this offer, the upgrade will cost $119 after.</div>
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    <strong>Please note</strong> that this recommendation applies to students, faculty, and staff personal machines. In Summer 2016,<a href="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/doit/posts/58680" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"> all DoIT controlled computer labs will be upgraded to Windows 10 Education</a>. DoIT does officially support Windows 10 and will be happy to upgrade faculty and staff UMBC owned machines as requested. Windows 10 also has support for <a href="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/doit/posts/59957" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Eduroam</a> &amp; <a href="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/doit/posts/59875" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">MATLAB</a>. </div>
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    <div>Bryan Roper, Executive Demo Lead for Microsoft, <a href="https://youtu.be/wVo9Vdpk23g" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">gave 10 reasons why you should upgrade.</a> Roper mentioned that Windows 10 has the highest customer satisfaction rate of any version of Windows ever. </div>
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    <div>By upgrading now, you can get live tiles that display tidbits of information without the need to open an app. There are also more games and apps on Windows 10 such as Minecraft, Netflix, and Adobe Photoshop Express. The security of Windows 10 is also improved, and if your device supports a fingerprint reader you can sign into it using Windows Hello</div>
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    <em>Windows 10 screenshot. Here you can see the live tiles in action, along with a familiar Windows UI</em>. </div>
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    <div>The other advantage of upgrading now is you will get all future Windows 10 updates for free. This includes the upcoming summer update titled Anniversary Update which includes improvements to Cortana, Microsoft’s digital personal assistant similar to Apple’s Siri.</div>
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    <div>You can check out some guides on upgrading from <a href="http://www.groovypost.com/howto/upgrade-windows-7-to-windows-10/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Windows 7 to Windows 10</a>, or how to upgrade from <a href="http://www.groovypost.com/howto/upgrade-windows-8-1-to-windows-10/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Windows 8.1 to Windows 10</a>. </div>
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    <div><em>Thumbnail image is from <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-upgrade" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Microsoft's Windows 10 page</a>. </em></div>
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<Title>Major changes to Instructional Web Environment for Fall 2016</Title>
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    <div>In Fall 2016, DoIT will be making significant changes to the userpages web environment. We will be creating a new Student Web Environment and there will be an upgraded server using newer versions of critical applications such as PHP, apache, python and other software tools faculty have requested. Staff, faculty and alumni pages from userpages will be moved to a virtual box where they can be continued to be accessed with the existing URLs they use today. </div>
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    <div>This transition is part of DoIT’s ongoing commitment to security and stability. The current web environment has aging hardware that is prone to failure. By upgrading now, DoIT will be able to provide much more powerful and easier to use interface for instructional needs. This new box will be updated regularly allowing to be more versatile with better software and security offerings. </div>
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    <div>Users who have web directories on userpages for non-instructional use will be transitioned to a new server that will be able to host their existing content.  On the new Student Web Environment, individual users will still need to activate their site, but this will now feature a more automated process. In addition, before each new academic year the directory that will be web accessible will change so that older content is no longer accessible to help with security. For example in 2016 the publically reachable directory will be swe2016 instead of the existing “pub/www” space that is currently used.  </div>
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    <div>As a result, DoIT will be transitioning off userpages.umbc.edu for all instructional web development after this semester. DoIT will work with faculty, staff and students in assisting with migration of non instructional user pages. </div>
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    <div>If faculty are actively using userpages and would like to be part of the shaping of the new environment please contact Damian Doyle, Director of Enterprise Infrastructure at <a href="mailto:damian@umbc.edu">damian@umbc.edu</a>
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<NewsItem contentIssues="true" id="60070" important="false" status="posted" url="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/veterans/posts/60070">
<Title>DoIT's Technology Support Center Now Hiring for the Summer</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><span><p><span>The DoIT Technology Support Center is looking to hire additional consultants to work during the Summer. Please see our job description below and visit our job posting on UMBCWorks</span><span> to apply. The position will be open for applications until May 18th. </span></p>
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    <p><span>(Search for TSC Student Consultant.)</span></p>
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    <p>We're looking, specifically, for students who are able to work between the hours below:</p>
    <p><span>Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays 8AM-2PM</span></p>
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    <br><p><span>Technology Support Center (TSC) student consultants are the first points of technical contact for the UMBC community and those who do well often go on to work in other areas of the Division of Information Technology (DoIT). Minimally, consultants are expected to provide initial triage and support for a wide-range of information technologies including accounts, hardware, instructional technologies, networking, software, telecommunications, and basic web development.</span></p>
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    <li><p><span>Create, update and resolve tickets in the Request Tracker (RT) ticketing system;</span></p></li>
    <li><p><span>Create, update, suggest and recommend relevant FAQ articles to users (</span><a href="http://www.umbc.edu/faq)" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span>www.umbc.edu/faq</span></a><span>);</span></p></li>
    <li><p><span>Provide direct assistance to users on technical issues they cannot easily resolve on their own;</span></p></li>
    <li><p><span>Complete in-person or online training about quality support as defined in</span><a href="http://umbc.edu/go/ticketrubric" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span>umbc.edu/go/ticketrubric</span></a><span>;</span></p></li>
    <li><p><span>Respond to all work related communications in a timely manner;</span></p></li>
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    <li><p><span>Demonstrated writing ability.</span></p></li>
    <li><p><span>Demonstrated ability to achieve successful outcomes in handling difficult situations and customers.</span></p></li>
    <li><p><span>Demonstrated analytical and troubleshooting skills.</span></p></li>
    <li><p><span>Ability &amp; willingness to learn coupled with clear understanding of one’s technical abilities, so as to triage and escalate an issue that leads to an effective solution for the user.</span></p></li>
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<NewsItem contentIssues="false" id="60029" important="false" status="posted" url="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/veterans/posts/60029">
<Title>LDAP-Master and Webadmin downtime on 6/2</Title>
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    <span>****CHANGE OF DATE*****</span><div><span><br></span></div>
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    <span>On Thursday, June 2nd starting at 2pm LDAP-Master and Webadmin will be taken down for system maintenance.  During this time account creations and password changes will be unavailable.  Account authentication and logins will not be affected during this downtime.  </span><div><br></div>
    <div>The maintenance window will allow staff to apply needed security and application updates.  The outage window is expected to last two hours with services being restored by 4pm on Thursday, June 2nd.<div><br></div>
    <div>During the outage window account creations will be queued and then processed upon restoration of services.  If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our Technology Support Center at x53838.</div>
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<NewsItem contentIssues="true" id="59875" important="false" status="posted" url="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/veterans/posts/59875">
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    <div>If students haven't already, they can <a href="https://www.mathworks.com/mwaccount/register?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mathworks.com%2Fdownloads%2Fselect_release" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">sign up for a Mathworks account</a> using their UMBC email. If you already have a UMBC Mathworks account, you can add a license under the “My Account” option by selecting the drop down menu on your name when you log in to Mathworks. You can obtain the license key <a href="http://www.umbc.edu/downloads/MatLab/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">here.</a>
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    <div>There are <a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/display/faq/Matlab+Licensed+Components" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">over 20 modules currently included</a> in UMBC’s MATLAB site license. These include modules such as Simulink, Matlab Compiler, and System Identification Toolbox.</div>
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    <div>Previously, MATLAB was only available to UMBC faculty and staff. Now, UMBC students can obtain a license key and install MATLAB on their personal machine. You can view the system requirements for <a href="http://www.mathworks.com/support/sysreq/current_release/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">your OS on the Mathworks website</a>.</div>
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    <div>DoIT has extensive <a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/display/faq/Matlab+Stand-Alone+Installation" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">FAQs for installing</a> MATLAB and video tutorials for <a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/display/faq/UMBC+CIRC+Software+Workshops%3A+Basic+MATLAB+Programming" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Basic MATLAB programming</a> and <a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/display/faq/CIRC+Software+Workshops%3A+Advanced+MATLAB+Programming" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Advanced MATLAB programming</a>. </div>
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<NewsItem contentIssues="true" id="59957" important="false" status="posted" url="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/veterans/posts/59957">
<Title>Why You Should Be Using Eduroam</Title>
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    <span><a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=31199051" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span>Eduroam</span></a><span> is a global Wi-Fi network that provides encrypted traffic for any device you use and features a </span><a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/x/oQIxAg" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span>one time setup process</span></a><span> that can be used on any campus that supports eduroam, not just UMBC. You can check out a </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVCmcMZS3uA&amp;feature=player_embedded" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span>video by the Eduroam community</span></a><span> on an overview of how it works. </span><span> </span><span>Eduroam is supported on </span><a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=31199055" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span>Mac OS X</span></a><span>, </span><a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=31199052" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span>Windows</span></a><span>, </span><a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=31199057" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span>Linux</span></a><span>, </span><a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=30541701" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span>iOS</span></a><span>, and </span><a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=61703890" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span>Android</span></a><span>.</span></span><div><span><span><br></span></span></div>
    <div><span><span>Here are 3 reasons why you should be using eduroam instead of UMBC Campus:</span></span></div>
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    <div><span><span>1. </span><a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=30541701" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span>Quick and easy</span></a><span>: Damian Doyle, Director of Enterprise Infrastructure and Support, thinks eduroam is great for everyone. When asked about the main advantages, he said “eduroam can remember your login information allowing your device to automatically connect to the wireless network.” Setup for eduroam usually takes less than 5 minutes and once set up, your computer will automatically join to the network when on campus. </span></span></div>
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    <div><span><span>Remember when setting up to use your entire username, so instead of ‘damian’ in the username field, you would use </span><span><a href="mailto:damian@umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">damian@umbc.edu</a></span></span></div>
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    <div><span><span>Example of logging into Eduroam on Mac OS X. Make sure to include the @umbc.edu part in the username field.</span></span></div>
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    <div>2. <a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=31199051" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span>Security</span></a><span>: Eduroam provides a higher level of security than conventional, unencrypted wireless. When using eduroam, all traffic between their devices and the wireless access point is encrypted using WPA2 providing another reason everyone should switch to eduroam sooner rather than later.   </span>
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