Office 2013 Rollout
Office 2013 was made available to install on all CONNECT workstations from 1st July. It is available on the Oxford Application Installer menu and from 1st August you will start to see messages asking you to upgrade on any machine … Continue reading
KeePass available on CONNECT and CONNECT Remote Desktop
KeePass has now been made available to install via the Oxford Applications Installer menu on all CONNECT machines. It will also shortly be available on the CONNECT Remote Desktop service (pre-installed, with an icon on the desktop). A note about … Continue reading
Update on Scanning to Departmental Drives
Following on from the problems affecting UAS network drives that occurred on 9th March work has been carried out to update the photocopiers which were configured to scan to the affected departmental drives.
UAS Photocopiers – Scan to network drives
Last updated: 10.08, Tuesday 29th March Following on from the problems affecting UAS network drives that occurred on 9th March work has been carried out to update the photocopiers which were configured to scan to the affected departmental drives. The … Continue reading
CONNECT – UAS network drive outage
Last updated: 07.39, Friday 10th March Work continued throughout Wednesday and Thursday to recover from Wednesday’s failure affecting UAS network drives. All departmental drives were available from 11am Thursday morning and access to the P drive was restored last night. … Continue reading
Continuing with the desktop RAM upgrades
We previously reported the RAM upgrades that were completed during the first week. We knew we wouldn’t be able to continue at that pace because the remaining upgrades needed to take place over a much wider larger spread of buildings. … Continue reading
The first week of RAM upgrades
We’re continuing our RAM upgrade for desktop machines and are over half way through. During the first week we managed to upgrade 494 out of the 516 machines that we planned so thank you to everyone that has assisted us … Continue reading
Improving and benchmarking logon times
One of the areas that we’ve been focusing in on is the time take between turning machines on and them being ready to load applications. A previous blog post outlines the changes we’re making to printer deployment and removing the … Continue reading
Windows Peformance Logs
One of the bits of work that we’ve been looking at is identifying useful information help within the Windows logs which we can utilise to help us see what is going on. An example of this is looking using the … Continue reading
Understanding boot times and logon times
A lot of support calls, especially associated with the slowness problems, surround slow logon and boot times. These range from unable to logon to delays and error messages at a range of points during people getting to the point where … Continue reading