Announcements

Scam alert – who can you trust?

We have observed an uptick in scams targeting students, faculty and staff. In general, they are predominantly email-based, and often mimic job offers, research opportunities, or the occasional piano for sale. Please remember, only trust emails that come from @williams.edu addresses. We employ solid defensive security measures for our domain,… Continue reading »

OIT Spring Break Maintenance Schedule

Load Balancer System Maintenance (Netscaler) Date: Saturday, March 16th, 2024 Time: 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM Impact: Brief service disruption (up to 15 minutes) Description: OIT will be performing necessary maintenance on our load balancers, impacting various college services. You may experience brief intermittent availability during this maintenance window. Affected Services:… Continue reading »

More Advanced Google Trainings

Our first round was so popular OIT is offering more Advanced Google Apps trainings!  We recommend that you either have attended our previous basic Google Apps workshop or are just savvy and are ready for a challenge. Please bring your college issued laptop to work on, however you… Continue reading »

OIT Spring Break Maintenance Schedule

(3/16/2024, 3/20/2024) Load Balancer System Maintenance Date: Saturday, March 16th, 2024 Time: 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM Impact: Brief service disruption (up to 15 minutes) Description: OIT will be performing necessary maintenance on our load balancers, impacting various college services. You may experience brief intermittent availability during this maintenance window. Affected… Continue reading »

Advanced Google Apps Training

You spoke and we listened, OIT is offering Advanced Google Apps trainings!  We recommend that you either have attended our previous basic Google Apps workshop or are just savvy and are ready for a challenge. Please bring your college issued laptop to work on, however you can also use… Continue reading »

Added: New Workday Wednesday Session

Student employment is moving to Workday on June 16. This session on March 13 will introduce hiring, time entry and approval, and ending jobs for student workers. Managers, timekeepers, and anyone who oversees student workers would benefit from attending one of these presentations. Presentations will start every 20 minutes from… Continue reading »

OIT Google Apps Trainings

Our first round of Google Apps trainings was so popular we are running more!  Learn best practices and tips and tricks for using your Williams College email, calendar, and Google Drive.  We will begin with basic use and then get into some more advanced tools for increasing your… Continue reading »

Business Information Analyst Job Opportunity

Williams College seeks a full-time Business Information Analyst to join the Administrative Information Services team.  As such, you get to support the effective use of enterprise administrative software by students, faculty, and staff.  You will also play a key role in implementing and integrating a new core suite of… Continue reading »

Workday Wednesdays are Back!

Starting June 16, 2024, Workday will replace PeopleSoft as Williams’s hub for employee and financial data. We encourage the community to come to Workday Wednesdays as a chance to experience Workday for yourself, ask questions of HR, Finance, and Change Management teams, and learn how to get training and help… Continue reading »

Mail Merge in Gmail – New Method

Williams now uses Gmail’s built in mail merge tool as a replacement for Mail Merge With Attachments (MMwA). Please check out our full Help Guide on how to do a mail merge with the new built-in tool provided by Google. https://oit.williams.edu/help-guides/email/mail-merge-in-gmail/… Continue reading »

Fake Job Scams are back

Fake job scams continue to appear, often from @gmail addresses and claiming to be a faculty member sending them. Please be suspicious of any email sent from an email address you don’t recognize or know. Williams faculty and staff will communicate via their @williams.edu accounts, not from @gmail. When/if you… Continue reading »

2023 OIT Winter Shutdown Maintenance Schedule

OIT will be hard at work over the Winter Shutdown performing maintenance and upgrades to prepare for the new year.  We have scheduled this to impact the fewest people.   Wednesday, December 27th From 3:00 PM to approximately 09:00 PM we will upgrade edge switches in half… Continue reading »

Tech-niques Supporting Williams Firsts

In recognition of National First Gen Week, and Williams faculty’s commitment to student learning, Academic Technology Services offers some “tech”-niques you can use (both as you’re preparing for the next semester, and just-in-time at any point during the semester) to illuminate the hidden curriculum, and build self-efficacy, for… Continue reading »

OIT Google Apps Training – Make your work easier!

Learn best practices and tips and tricks for using your Williams College email, calendar, and Google Drive.  We will begin with basic use and then get into some more advanced tools for increasing your productivity. Join us either for all or just the portions you would find… Continue reading »

Workday Wednesdays Continue This Week!

Pop in for Workday Wednesdays at the Faculty House all through November! Bring a friend, a colleague, or your whole team and learn more about the changes coming to Williams. Grab a coffee or tea and breakfast snack before you leave. We hope to see you there. Nov 8 – Intro to… Continue reading »

Using Okta MFA with the Williams VPN client

To enhance the security of our systems, Okta MFA will be required for VPN access starting November 15.    Active ransomware groups are targeting organizations that do not have MFA for their VPN users*.  If you have not yet signed up for Okta please do so. To use Okta MFA… Continue reading »