ITS News

Thanks to the recent voicemail upgrade, faculty and staff members are now able to utilize Conditional Greetings in voicemail. There are three types of Conditional Greetings:

• Busy: Greeting callers hear when your phone is already in use.
• Call Forward: Greeting callers hear when your phone is forwarded to another extension.
• No Answer: Greeting callers hear when your phone is not answered.

Instructions to configure Conditional Greetings may be found here: http://www.lawrence.edu/dept/its/facstaff/telecom.shtml#conditional. You may also continue to use your current, Primary Greeting and not make any changes to your voicemail settings.

Please be advised: ITS will be completing network upgrades Thursday, November 8, from 5 - 6 a.m. During this time, users will not have access to personal home directories, department share space, or printing services.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this outage, please contact the Helpdesk at ext. 6570.

Here's our annual update on the personal technology choices of freshmen. In a nutshell, students were slightly more likely to bring cellphones than last year's freshmen, somewhat more likely to bring laptops and MP3 players, and significantly more likely to bring a Macintosh than last year.

As noted early in the summer, the 2007-2008 ITS capital budget includes provisions for a number of upgrades to the campus network. Several of these have been completed, and several others are nearing completion. So, it's time for a report to the campus community covering 1) greater bandwidth to the Internet, 2) expanded wireless coverage, 3) network access control, and 4) the extension of the campus network to Banta Bowl. This report covers the first two of these. Expect more information on the second two in about a week.

Here's a secret for anyone who updates Lawrence web pages: there's a special way that you can check your work to make sure it's visible to the outside world.

It's always a good idea to load up your web page in a web browser after making updates, and most people probably do this. If you don't check your work with a real browser after editing and uploading your web pages, then you'll never know if your content is rendering properly.

What might come as a surprise to many is the fact that simply checking your web content in a browser is not sufficient where Lawrence pages are concerned.