Category: ITS News & Announcements

With the holiday season upon us, millions of people around the world are spending more time online shopping for gifts, catching up with family, and making travel plans. Unfortunately, it’s also a time of year when many criminals increase their efforts to scam, steal, and harm others. While the risks may be greater this time of...

As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about the critical security flaw in MacOS High Sierra, Apple has released a patch to resolve this issue.  The patch can be downloaded and applied in the App Store: Open the App Store app on your Mac. Click Updates in the App Store Toolbar Click the Update button to...

Thank you for your patience. ITS has now resolved the Harmon Fine Arts network outage. If you continue to experience issues, please contact the Support Center at 515-271-3001 or visit service.drake.edu/its to report your issue.

At approximately 10:40, ITS was made aware of a network outage for Harmon Fine Arts. All wired and wireless access in Harmon Fine Arts is currently down. ITS is diligently working towards a resolution. We will provide updates and let you know when this outage has been resolved. Thank you for your patience.

A major security flaw has been revealed in Apple’s latest MacOS release, High Sierra, allowing unauthorized individuals to gain full administrative rights to the computer without a password. The defect is easy to exploit, leaving many computers running the OS at risk of compromise. Drake ITS has taken steps to protect University-owned and managed computers,...

Starting Saturday, November 25, at 4 p.m. and lasting until 6 p.m., all Banner (DUSIS) services will be unavailable. Access to blueView, MyDUSIS, DUSIS (INB) Forms, Workflow, eTranscripts, Job Submission, and ODBC (Microsoft Access) will be unavailable. This outage will allow ITS to install necessary upgrades for the Banner/DUSIS system. If you continue experiencing issues...

Thank you to the 524 members of the campus community who took the time to participate in the 2017 ITS phishing quiz. We hope you learned more about how to spot potentially malicious emails and secure your digital life. Thanks too to all those who stopped by the ITS table in Olmsted and spun the...

At roughly 10 a.m., ITS was made aware of people unable to login to the blueSpace website (https://bluespace.drake.edu). This is affecting access to personal and departmental file storage from the web. The Xythos Drive on both Mac and Windows computers is still working, and people may continue to access personal and departmental files there. ITS...

Today’s the final day to enter the ITS Phishing Quiz. Drake students, faculty, and staff can learn about how to identify phishing emails and fraudulent websites. Everyone who completes the quiz will be entered to win one of six prize packages. Visit www.drake.edu/its/phish today.