lw2 was repaired just before noon today. This time the faulty part was exchanged so it seems more likely that this repair will last longer than the last time.

If you use OWA to access the UTORExchange servers (not many people in our department do this…it is only for accessing university email accounts, not our usual email accounts) then you will notice a colour/logo change after March 2, 2010.  The UofT I+TS people have asked that people be alerted to the following information:

Had we not provided notice, customers accessing http://owa.utoronto.ca after the colors changed should all have been suspicious that this was a phishing attack, and refused to provide their UTORid and password.

Please have all customers examine the new authentication page ahead of time at, http://owa-logo.utoronto.ca

The page at http://owa-logo.utoronto.ca looks like http://owa.utoronto.ca will look after implementation of the new colors.

This includes the browser “lock” coming together to indicate this site is protected by a certificate.

The demonstration page at http://owa-logo.utoronto.ca differs from what will be implemented at http://owa.utoronto.ca in the
following ways,

– the URL in the browser bar will be https://owa-logo.utoronto.ca/…

Customers should always make sure it is https://owa.utoronto.ca/…

– attempts to “Log On” using any UTORid and passwords will always fail.

The lw2 printer was repaired this morning and seemed to be working properly, but after an hour or so the problem has recurred.  The technician should be back tomorrow.

The lw2 printer in the mailroom (BA6290A) is currently not working. The Xerox technician should arrive tomorrow or Monday to fix it.

The departmental blogs were fixed on Friday and are working again.

The new CMS (Content Management System) website is scheduled to go online today at 1pm.  There is still some information that is not completely up-to-date or that may need reformatting.  Please send all comments, complaints, and requests to:

webmaster@math.toronto.edu

NEW WEBSITE
On Monday January 25, 2010 at 1pm we will be moving to our new CMS-driven website.  This website has a very different look than our current one and it is hoped that this will be more user-friendly and useful and that it will create better impressions of the department for external viewers.  The main homepage will remain:

http://www.math.toronto.edu/

(If you would like to see the old homepage that will be available at:

http://www.math.toronto.edu/old-index.html

and there will be a link to that on our new homepage for a little while.)

Eventually we expect that people will be able to edit their own webpages within the CMS but for now that is not feasible.

NEW WIKI SERVER
As has already been mentioned in an earlier email there is a departmental wiki at:

http://wiki.math.toronto.edu/TorontoMathWiki/

There is some documentation at:

http://wiki.math.toronto.edu/TorontoMathWiki/index.php/How_to_create_a_course%3F

about how to create a course wiki.

NEW BLOG SERVER
There is also a blog server available at:

http://blog.math.toronto.edu/

Please visit that page for information about creating your own blog.

IT STATUS BLOG
There is a new blog for IT Status updates (in fact you are probably viewing it right now).  It is at:

http://blog.math.toronto.edu/itstatus

This blog has RSS so that receiving updates as they are added will now be simpler.