Archive for Tami Aune
Don’t Know Your WebAdvisor Password?
Passwords for WebAdvisor and email are not synchronized. This makes it sometimes difficult to remember your WebAdvisor password. If you don’t know your WebAdvisor password, you can have it reset and emailed to your Gustavus email account. Just click the “I forgot my PIN and need to reset it” link on the lower left side on [...]
Office 2007 Ultimate Steal Deal
Microsoft Corporation is currently offering their Office Ultimate 2007 bundle to college students for only $59.95. This is a huge savings over retail, or even most academic prices. Hurry, pricing is available to college students only for a limited time (expires on May 16th, 2008). The product is in a downloadable format and [...]
E-mail Quotas
Most users at Gustavus have an e-mail quota of 250 MB. A quota limits the amount of disk space that each user can use. If you are close to your e-mail quota, you will receive an e-mail notification. To check your e-mail quota and usage, please visit the GTS Tools Page. [...]
Empty Your E-mail Trash Mailbox
Be a good steward of your e-mail space and regularly empty your trash. The messages in your Trash mailbox take up space on the mailserver, and count towards your e-mail quota. Make sure you empty your Trash mailbox regularly. To empty your Trash mailbox in Webmail click the Empty Trash icon [...]
WebAdvisor Problems
The WebAdvisor server is experiencing some technical problems. Users may be unable to log in or search for classes. Members of the Technology Services Staff are currently working on resolving the problems.
Email Outage
The Gustavus email server experienced an unplanned outage during early morning hours of Friday, April 20th. The software problem which caused the outage has been repaired. If you continue to have problems accessing email, please contact the Technology Helpline at x6111 or helpline@gustavus.edu.
Specialized Software for Labs/Classrooms
The end of another school year is just around the corner, and soon-to-follow will be the busy summer months for Gustavus Technology Services. During the spring and summer, the Technology Services staff puts together a master set of software to be installed on the campus computer labs, faculty and staff desktops and teaching classrooms. This software [...]
Daylight Savings Time Changes
Not only is Daylight Savings Time changing our clocks, this year it is changing when we change our clocks. This means that our computers have to change too. All major software vendors have released patches and updates to ensure that the changes in Daylight Savings Time don’t cause us to be late for [...]
SSL Certificate Updated on Mailserver
On Tuesday, February 20th the SSL Certificate on the mailserver at Gustavus was renewed. The Eudora email client will notify the end user of this change. The notification will be in the form of an error message. Please click the Yes button to trust the certificate in future sessions. If you have questions, [...]
Duplicate Email Messages
The Technology Helpline has taken numerous calls recently from users reporting duplicate email messages. Many of the these duplicates are being caused by mailing lists that have errors (incorrect usernames) in them. If you are getting duplicate emails, please call the Technology Helpline at x6111 and report the name of the mailing list. We [...]