Office for Information Technology
Help Docs
What to do if you responded to a phishing email or logged in to a fake web page
If you did reply with a username and password to a phishing email, or you logged in to a fake Williams web page your account information is available to the scammer. Do these things as quickly as possible (preferably from a different computer): Change your password: Go to: oit.williams.edu and under the Tools section click the Change Password link Contact more »
Fancybox: pop-out images
What is Fancybox? In the new Williams theme, images with Fancybox will pop out in a lightbox when people click on them. In the following example, clicking on the image (boxed in red) displays the largest size of the image, with an optional caption. How can I activate Fancybox for an image? Having inserted an more »
Incoming Faculty: Computer Request Form
Welcome to Williams! Please use this form to let us know your computer preferences:
Electronic Device Support
OIT provides support for many electronic devices. Although we can’t anticipate all the ways in which these devices will be used we do offer a list of standard services that OIT provides for them. Prior to purchase, please read the Electronic Device Policy as stated by the Dean of Faculty and Provost offices. Note that more »
Saving email before your account expires
Graduating seniors and Faculty/Staff who are leaving the college may want to save personal emails before they lose access to the Williams account. Graduating Seniors, please remember that after you graduate your account is disabled, soon after, your email will be deleted and will not be recoverable! Saving your email now is a very important step! You more »
Comment Spam
Spam happens when you allow people to comment on your pages or posts. You may also receive spammy pingbacks and trackbacks, which are automatic notifications that other sites have linked back to you. The most effective way to get rid of spam is to turn off comments, pingbacks, and trackbacks altogether. Turning off comments for more »
Resizing and cropping images in iPhoto
Cropping an image in iPhoto Save the image to your desktop, or other location on your computer. Open iPhoto. Drag and drop the image onto your open iPhoto window. Once your image is in iPhoto, click on it and then click Edit in the lower right-hand corner (boxed in red below). Click Crop. Check off more »
Ironport
What is the IronPort? All incoming and virtually all outgoing email (with the exception of listservs) pass through the IronPort appliance. The IronPort is the main filtering mechanism for spam and email virus filtering. How does the IronPort work? The IronPort email appliance accepts, throttles, and blocks emails depending upon the sending domain’s reputation score. more »
Email Address Format
Williams provides emails addresses in the format: username@williams.edu and First.M.Last@williams.edu All new user names are in the format: initials + sequence number For example, email sent to Ephraim.A.Williams@williams.edu and to eaw1@williams.edu go to the same account.
Email Setup for Blackberry
Curve/Tour Press the BlackBerry menu button to view all icons. Find and select E-mail Settings from the home screen - this will take you to the Verizon BlackBerry Internet Server (BIS). Agree to the End User Agreement Email Account Setup You will be asked to enter your email address and password/passphrase. Enter your email address in more »
Email Setup for iPhones
Configuring your iPhone or iPad to check email Click ‘Settings’ Click ‘Mail, Contacts, Calendars’ Click ‘Add Account…’ Click ‘Other’ Click ‘Add Mail Account’ For Name, put your real name e.g. Eph Williams (FirstName LastName) For Address, put your short email address e.g. ewilliam@williams.edu (username@williams.edu) Enter your college password/passphrase (this may be difficult, so type slowly) Description can more »
Android Email
Select Email from the Application list. Type in your Williams email address and password/passphrase. Select Manual Setup. Type of account: IMAP Incoming server settings Username: your username Password: your password/passphrase IMAP server: facstaffmail.williams.edu (or, if student: studentmail.williams.edu) Port: 993 Security type: SSL (Accept all certificates) IMAP path prefix: leave blank Select, Next. Outgoing server settings more »
Privacy settings
You can set the privacy settings of any post or page by editing its Visibility (boxed in red below). Public: Visible to everyone. This is the default setting. Password protected: Visitors must enter a password. Private: Only site admins and the person who created the page/post will be able see the page or post. This more »
Email Setup
Email Addresses Faculty, staff and student email addresses are in the format: First.M.Last@williams.edu and username@williams.edu The username format changed in April 2007: Faculty and staff pre April 2007: your first initial followed by the first 7 letters of the last name (ewilliam) Students pre class of 2011: your class year followed by your initials (10ejw) Faculty, staff and students more »
Features of the new Williams theme
Building on all the advantages of the previous Williams theme, the redesign offers a clean, updated look and a ton of new features. Here’s just some of what you’ll find in the new theme: More space. With a wider main section and single sidebar, there’s more room for your content and images. More customization options. more »
