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Articles tagged with: Howtos

Multi-Factor Authentication II: A Portable 2-Factor Authentication App

Protecting Your Accounts: The Importance of Two-Factor Authentication and 2FAS One of the difficulties that has arisen as our society grows ever more digital is the need to verify identities. Early applications used simple passwords, then username-password pairs, then increasingly more complex passwords to try and stay secure. This produced several issues, including the need [ Read More ]

Keep Your Home Computer Running Smoothly: Easy Steps for Updating Windows and Mac

For computers connected to the OSU network, Agriculture IT has you covered when it comes to keeping your office machine up to date. Our IT team handles operating system updates so you don’t have to think about it. But when you are at home working on your personal computer or using an OSU computer off [ Read More ]

Service Accounts and Their Uses

What is a Service Account? At Oklahoma State University, employees can request the creation of an additional email address that is separate from their personal OSU email. This email address can be used for communication, social media, or to create accounts for online services like Google, Apple, and others. Service Accounts also have access to [ Read More ]

How to protect your phone or tablet – simple steps for Android and iOS security.

Phones and tablets have gone from being cool gadgets to our partners in crime, helping us keep in touch with our people, hoarding our secrets, and occasionally granting us entry into the mystical realm of work networks and services. They’re like little digital treasure chests of personal data. But, just like we’d lock up our [ Read More ]

OSU Service Account Password Change

Service accounts are generally an OSU email account that is bound to a department or office. These accounts can be used for a variety of things, but many are used for shared calendars or OneDrive folders. This way the account stays with the department if someone was to leave for a different department or OSU [ Read More ]

National Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2022: Personal Awareness

Cybersecurity Awareness Month is a great time to reflect on your habits and how you interact with technology over the past year. With this, answers to the following questions can help you focus on keeping your online identity and your data safe. Have you connected to any public Wi-Fi networks over the last year? While [ Read More ]

Using the Accessibility Checker in Microsoft Office 365 Apps

Whether you are creating content for the public or making an internal document for review, making that content accessible is one of the best things you can do for its readability. Accessible documents are generally easier to read, plus you have the added advantage of creating content that most people, including those with disabilities, will [ Read More ]

QR Codes: What are they, what are they good for, and how do you use them?

Even if you do not use QR codes on a regular basis, you have probably seen one over the past few years. Once considered a dead technology, QR codes made a huge comeback during the Covid pandemic. QR codes are square images that allow a smartphone or other device with a camera to open a [ Read More ]

Outlook Polls: Microsoft Forms plugin

Have you ever needed to ask a group of people a simple quick question and receive their answers in one place instead of individual emails? Microsoft is betting the answer to that question is a resounding YES! They have come up with a simple elegant solution to this widespread problem with “Polls” an Outlook plugin [ Read More ]

Zoom – How to change your username

Security has become a very important component of holding a Zoom meeting. The ever-present risk of having a meeting Zoom Bombed has created the need for people to increase security for meetings. Due to this, people who are not known or who have the default username of “User” may not be admitted into meetings. Because [ Read More ]