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2020 December - email name spoofing
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Updates
2020 December - email name spoofing
Sent to staff email list on 17 December 2020. Emailing Bigelow employees from your Colby email address. About a month ago, I turned on an "employee name spoofing" filter in our Bigelow Gmail account.…
2020 October - COVID resources
This was discussed at the October 7th all-hands meeting and sent as an email on the same day. Resources. We have moved the storage resources drive to Google's Shared Drives. In the process, we have r…
2021 December - WiFi
Hello everyone, There is a new staff WiFi network called Bigelow Staff. Moving forward, this will be used instead of the “Bigelow" network. The Bigelow network will be depreciated in early 2022 - see…
2021 January - Zoom recording + private chat
There was some discussion at the last all hands meeting about whether private chats are saved when recording Zoom meetings. The answer depends on whether you are recording to the cloud or locally: Re…
2021 March - NetSuite Google authentication
NetSuite now uses Google authentication for the Employee Center and SRS roles. This should make it easier to sign in (one less password!) We will eventually expand this to other roles once the kinks…
2021 March - VPN Upgrade
We are upgrading our VPN server to the latest version. The new version boasts improved speed and security. You will need to uninstall and reinstall your OpenVPN client before next Tuesday, March 16th…
2023 - Zoom Updates
Scheduling. We have added a step to the Zoom Room scheduling procedure. In addition to adding the Zoom Room calendar resource, please invite the room by email address ( boardroom@bigelow.org , classr…
2024 May - VPN SSO
Hi Everyone, We are making a change to the way you authenticate to the Bigelow VPN, making it easier to use and more secure. You will need to set up the new authentication method in order to access t…