Spotlight on DASNR IT

Articles tagged with: Andrew Roewe

Office 365; What is it and why should I care?

Over the next three months, Oklahoma State University will be slowly moving all of the faculty, administration and staff from Microsoft Exchange to Microsoft Office 365 (O365). As of November 1st, DASNR has already began the migration and hopes to have everybody moved over by the end of the month. So what does it mean [ Read More ]

After the Email Migration: Outlook on OSX

Like the Windows counterpart, updating to Office 365 when working with OSX machines is straightforward. The following guide will walk you through the steps both pre- and post-migration as your mailbox is migrated to O365. Outlook 2011 Prior to the migration make sure Office 2011 is updated. To manually update Office, open up any [ Read More ]

DASNR Faculty & Staff Forum – Live Stream pt.1

In May of 2015, The Vice President, Dean, and Director of DASNR, Dr. Coon, held a Faculty/Staff forum to allow those with questions and concerns to be able to voice them. Due to the size of the Division and how spread out we are (roughly 82 off site locations not including research stations,) the decision [ Read More ]

Windows 10: Should DASNR care?

As you might have heard by now Microsoft is releasing their newest version of Windows on July 29th, 2015. This version is called Windows 10. For the most part Windows 10 doesn’t look much different from Windows 7 or 8.x. Microsoft has reworked its core operating system and made improvements to its overall performance. Here [ Read More ]

Digital Signage – Part 3 Vendors

In Part 1 we investigated the various uses and applications of digital signs. In Part 2 we looked at the planning for implementation of a signage system. Like most technologies out there, there are a lot of vendors from which we can choose. Each offers a variety of features and their solutions vary in cost. In part [ Read More ]

Digital Signage – Part 2 Planning

Digital Signage – Part 2 Planning In part 1 I talked provided an overview of digital signage, beginning with a simple definition and some examples. In this post I will be discussing some of the key points of the system in an effort to help with your initial planning.

Mailbox Management

I received an email the other day and sent a response. A few minutes after I had submitted my reply I received an auto-reply from the mail server saying: A “full mailbox”: one of the banes of our existence. At OkState, when our mailboxes get full we can no longer send or receive emails, and [ Read More ]

Digital Signage – Part 1 Overview

Digital Signage – Part 1 Overview A few years ago the Student Technology Fee Committee of the College of Ag Sciences and Natural Resources agreed to install five digital signage kiosks throughout buildings that housed our academic departmental faculty, staff, and students. The expectation was that these kiosks would provide information about the college and [ Read More ]

End User Appreciation

As I was going to lunch yesterday I noticed that a lot of the restaurants were starting to advertise their new/returning fish* items on their menus. This signaled to me that Lent was fast approaching. For those who do not know Lent is a religious season that starts roughly six weeks before Easter. Many of [ Read More ]