You may have seen recent news on a worldwide ransomware attack. Luther-owned computers are already protected from this attack thanks to our automated patching system. Personally-owned Windows computers need to be updated and rebooted immediately if their system updates are out of date.

The User Services team meets twice each month. During this week's meeting, we discussed: WannaCry Ransomware , Admin1 Transition, “Shutdown Day”, Classroom Plans for Summer 2017, Windows 10, Summer Meeting Schedule, ITS Annual Report, and 2017-18 Objectives.

1:15pm — admin1 is functioning properly again.

We will be transitioning KATIE to the newest version of Moodle on Friday, May 26th. KATIE will be unavailable beginning at 12:01 AM on the 26th and will be back up at approximately 3:00 PM on Friday afternoon. We will provide an update to this post when KATIE is available. All of your work will carry over.

Course Evaluations and Fixit (also known as SchoolDude) were unavailable earlier this morning. Services are restored.

ITS Council is the leadership team within Information Technology Services. Topics discussed this week were New Admissions Software, New Software Module for Center for Global Learning and Residence Hall Phones Planning. Operational Reports given this week by Network & Systems and User Services.

ITS Council is the leadership team within Information Technology Services. Topics discussed this week were Phishing Email, LastPass for OFS and Alumni Email Accounts. Operational Report given this week by Software Development.

The Luther community has received hundreds of phishing messages with an invitation to view a Google document. This is a phishing scam. Please do not open these messages and delete them if they seem to be questionable or something you were not expecting. If you have clicked on the “Open in Docs” link and responded to the request to allow access to your information, please change your Norse Key password immediately.

The User Services team meets twice each month. At this week's meeting, we discussed: Project Updates, Olin Classroom Upgrades, Windows Cleanup Script, Admin1 Transition, Checkout Laptops, Windows 10 Evaluation, Faculty Summer Refresh, Testing Windows Batteries, Staff Day Presentations, and Skype/iTunes Patching.

ITS Council is the leadership team within Information Technology Services. Topics discussed this week were Weston Noble Celebration of Life Event, Nursing and Music Faculty Department Workstation Rolls, and CLAC Identity and access Management Mindshare Event. Operational Reports given this week by Software Development and User Services.

Starting Wednesday, April 26th, staff will no longer have administrator rights on their Luther workstations.  Faculty administrator rights will be removed at a later date.

The User Services team meets twice each month. At this month's meeting, we discussed: 2017-18 Image changes, ITS Welcome Guide, Separation of Admin Rights from Workstation Login, Windows Cleanup Script, Admin1 File Server Transition, KATIE 3.2 Test Instance Available, and Summer Student Workers.