2016 IT Services news

Wednesday 14 December 2016

IT support won't be available between 23 December and 3 January, but other IT facilities will be available throughout.

Wednesday 7 December 2016

Our IT support will be restricted on Thursday 8 December when staff celebrate a Professional @ York nomination.

Monday 31 October 2016

We're making Qualtrics even more useful by giving you access to the Qualtrics Offline App.

Wednesday 12 October 2016

Inbox by Gmail gives you a different way to organise your email. It's been available on personal Gmail accounts for over a year, and from Tuesday 18 October it will be available for York accounts.

Thursday 6 October 2016

From October 2016, our newly-created Research Computing Support Centre offers support on advanced computing topics for research postgraduates and staff. Appointments are now open for booking.

Tuesday 27 September 2016

We provide research computing courses suitable for all researchers - whatever your experience or discipline.

Friday 23 September 2016

Been away for the summer? Here's what you may have missed from IT Services.

Monday 12 September 2016

On Tuesday 13 September between 8am and 8.30am we will be carrying out an upgrade to the load balancers that manage our network traffic.

Wednesday 31 August 2016

Our IT training sessions, Essential Access and Essential Spreadsheets, are now available to book for the next academic year.

Thursday 25 August 2016

We're upgrading the tool that manages logins to various web-based services.

Wednesday 3 August 2016

We're re-running our practical based training course for web developers in secure development. On the course, participants will learn how to test web applications by breaking into them.

Tuesday 28 June 2016

*Updated 15 August 2016* Over the summer vacation, we're carrying out routine maintenance in our IT rooms.

Thursday 2 June 2016

On Thursday 9 June, we will be removing the York Conferences wifi network. Conference guests should use eduroam if they are from a participating institution or the CityConnect network if not.

Wednesday 25 May 2016

EPrint is unavailable until further notice. This includes emailing documents to print as attachments and uploading them via the web interface.

Monday 23 May 2016

On Tuesday 14 June, we will be upgrading Qualtrics to the Insight Platform.

Tuesday 17 May 2016

For the third year running, Information Services (Library, IT and Archives) have successfully achieved the Customer Service Excellence Award.

Sunday 8 May 2016

IT Services offer more than you might realise to support academics and researchers who want to use technology in new and innovative ways.

Wednesday 6 April 2016

Our monitoring processes have been commended by UCISA (University and Colleges Information Systems Association).

Tuesday 29 March 2016

Following Apple's announcement that they will no longer offer discounts to HE customers, we are pleased to inform you that we will be partnering with Stone for discounted Apple purchases from this point forward.

Monday 7 March 2016

From Friday 1 April, Apple will no longer offer HE discounts when you buy from them directly.

Friday 26 February 2016

Join MathWorks engineers as they provide hands-on, example-driven training on programming techniques, parallel computing, statistical analysis, data processing and visualisation.

Monday 22 February 2016

We will be carrying out work to increase capacity on the wifi network at 7.30am on Thursday 25 February.

Wednesday 27 January 2016

We will be carrying out work to upgrade the Virtual Desktop Service (VDS) throughout February.

Monday 25 January 2016

We set service standards for many aspects of the services that we deliver, and measure ourselves against them to ensure that we’re meeting your requirements.

Friday 8 January 2016

Our IT training sessions for Spring term are open for bookings from University staff and Postgraduate Researchers.