G Suite, Office 365, Slack & More DCSS Fall 2018

NLI Collaboration Course Series CCS delivered our first round of NLI courses this semester We are offering the following courses next semester Collaboration using G Suite Collaboration using Slack Collaboration using Microsoft Teams

Team-based File Storage and Sharing New one-pager is available at https://tinyurl.com/y8v6cjc3

VT Slack Workspace & Single-Channel Guests The Virginia Tech Slack service is live at http://virginiatech.slack.com Departments may purchase licenses for users through the IT Service Catalog Single-Channel Guest accounts are also available at no cost for external (non-VT) users

VT Slack Workspace Usage 525 Members 369 Weekly Active Users 101 Public Channels Current as of 10/23/2018

Google December Event Google presenters will be on campus to share the benefits of Google G Suite for Teaching and Research BYOD hands-on with new beta tool sets Watch VT News for a follow up announcement with registration details

Azure Information Protection Rollout Protect files and emails Phase I Labels will include General Private Encrypted FERPA PII Pilot has been completed and we will be expanding user access in 2019

Calendar Synchronization with Microsoft Flow Populates changes in one calendar to the other Keeps your free/busy details in sync between calendars Provided with your Office 365 license KB0011758 for more details

Exchange Online Automated Licensing Current: All new faculty & staff accounts starting on 10/15/2018 automatically receive an Exchange Online mailbox Planned Updates: Move the mailbox routing selection to Account Manager Expand user coverage to provision accounts for pre-10/15 accounts

Microsoft’s Advanced Threat Protection Tired of being phished? Take part in our ATP Pilot to evaluate the new protections. The pilot will start in January 2019. Microsoft’s Advanced Threat Protection

Cloud Services Cloud Consultations Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure

Virtual Environments Virtual Machine Environments (VME) VME + PHI Linux and Windows Virtual Machines for general use by Departments or Faculty/Staff CCS Managed (Optional Service) IT Service Catalog VME + PHI Linux and Windows Virtual Machines for PHI research or contractual agreements involving compliance with HIPAA CCS Managed Secure Research Environment (SRE) Linux and Windows Virtual Machines and Secure Access Points for Researchers with Technology Control Plans involving Controlled Unclassified Information CCS Managed

Research Data Compliance and IT Consultations In partnership with ARC, ITSO, OSP, and OESRC Designed for faculty and staff with research compute or data needs Helps researchers understand and leverage Division of IT resources and services IT Service Catalog

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