News

May and June MATLAB seminars - Free on-line seminars about MATLAB and Simulink. Each seminar includes at Q + A session with a MathWorks engineer. Seminar information.

21 May 2013 - /var/tmp clean up. Linux local storage space will be cleaned up on Tuesday, 5/21. New, more powerful Linux machines will be in service when you connect to desktop.engineering.uiowa.edu or login.engineering.uiowa.edu

Thanks for coming to the ETC open house on April 25, 2013. See photos and the quiz prizes and get the quiz answers.

15 January 2013 - Collaborate users: Blackboard suggests installing Java's latest update. See the Collaborate page for more information.

UI Lynda.com portal, a huge collection of on-line software training videos, is available using your Hawk ID and password.

Engineering Help Desk

Go to the Engineering Help Desk home page.

Video tutorials, prepared by the consultants at the Engineering Help Desk, are available on some of the most-requested topics. This icon marks a page with a tutorial. The actual tutorial uses this icon .

Articles most referenced in response to user questions: VDI, Connect2 VPN, Webprint

ITS alerts.

New and Updated Web Pages

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Updated
Abaqus How to specify research license (4/29/13)
Locally Administered Computer Policy (PDF) Updated to follow University policies (2/25/13)
 

Newsletters

Et Cetera, the ETC newsletter, debuts with information about ECS, EES, and EMS. Read Vol 1. No 1, published December 2012.

Information about the changes, additions, and plans in Computer Systems Support (CSS) is available in the newsletter Essentials. The contents page has links to all published issues. Each issue is in PDF format. The last issue of the Essentials newsletter was published in April 2012.

ESC Articles

Articles are now available for reading and comment. Results of ITS-conducted IT survey in 2012 (1/13). Published in 12/12: video tutorials to illustrate how to do the things the Engineering Help Desk gets asked the most. Other ECS articles include extensive information about the 2012 network upgrade in SC, more about VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) than you knew there was to know, and results from the 2011 ITS IT survey.