Announcements

Workday Insights for May 2025

What’s been going on for the community and behind the scenes for the Workday project at Williams? Find out in our second quarter update letter. Simply head to our website and select the Project Updates tile to access our most recent letter as well as the archive of previous updates. Continue reading »

2025 Greenup dates

Recycle desktops, laptops, monitors, keyboards, mice, printers and other peripherals that connect to computers. Drop-off dates for 2025 are Thursday May 22 and Friday May 23 from 12:00-2:00PM, and Friday June 6 from 12:00-2:00PM. The drop-off location is the Facilities Storage Building behind the Tennis Courts. You will see signs to… Continue reading »

Phone System Upgrade

OIT will be upgrading the phone system between 4/28/2025 and 5/7/2025. During the entire upgrade period all services will remain available, with some minor exceptions listed below All updates will be posted under announcements on the OIT web page: https://oit.williams.edu/announcements/2025-phone-upgrade/ Monday (4/28/2025): Prep… Continue reading »

FirstYear login 2025

Welcome FirstYears!  This guide will help you access your Williams account for the first time.   You will use the link from Okta which will be sent to your personal email address to log in. — But before you do that, go to the App Store or Play Store on your mobile… 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… Continue reading »

MFA Push and Fatigue Attacks

With Okta, we have a flexible Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) system that requires your username, password and another factor in order to access your account. One of the simplest factors to use is MFA Push, where Okta sends a message to the Okta Verify app on your phone… Continue reading »

Deletion of old student accounts spring 2025

In order to clear space in Google Drive for the incoming class of 2029 we need to delete old student accounts.  This includes files and folders they created.   Please check to see if you wish to save any soon to be deleted files. For example, if students did… Continue reading »

Password Reuse – Break this bad habit!

Most of us are guilty of the bad habit of password reuse. Spending time imagining complex passwords is hard enough. Managing them is a whole other thing! But to secure your accounts, you must long and strong passwords or passphrases that are unique to each site/service. At a minimum, please… Continue reading »

Workday Pro Tip: Open help articles in separate tabs

Every help article in Workday comes with a permalink (a link that will remain the same even if we update the content). Permalinks will only stop working if we delete a help article. Copying and pasting the permalink in a new tab will allow you to keep the article open while you… Continue reading »

Workday Pro Tip: Find your Purchase Order (P.O.) Numbers

If you have a P.O. set up in your budget, don’t forget to include the P.O. number in invoice submissions. The P.O. number makes sure that the invoice amount is matched with the correct obligated funds. Cost Center Managers, Reviewers, and Viewers can find P.O. numbers in the “Obligations” column… Continue reading »

OIT Spring Break Maintenance Schedule

OIT will be hard at work over Spring Break performing routine maintenance and upgrades.  We have scheduled this to impact the fewest people.   Science Building Network work Monday, March 24th, 2025, 8:00am to 8:30am OIT will connect switches in some of the science buildings to… Continue reading »

Zoom AI Companion – Opt-in Pilot

Williams users may opt-in to a pilot of the Zoom AI Companion – it has features like meeting summaries & smart recording. If you want to try it, please follow the recommendations and learn how to enable it in this article. More Information… Continue reading »

  • 1
  • 2
  • 7