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September, 2008

September IT Training Schedule

Posted 09/09/2008 by Systems & Technology under Announcements, Software, Training

IT Training & Development has posted their workshop schedule for September.  Two new classes are being offered including a class for Word 2007 - Authoring Accessible Documents & Best Practices.

For more information and to enroll in a class, go to this web site: http://www.csun.edu/~it/training/trainclass.html.

Software Patches

Posted 09/05/2008 by Systems & Technology under Announcements, Software

Software vendors (such as Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Novell, Mozilla)  routinely release patches to fix problems with their software. These patches are mostly related to security issues. Issues that allow malicious attackers to take over a computer, steal or compromise sensitive data. When these patches are released vendors usually mark them as “critical” which requires immediate installation. Systems & Technology subscribes to Novell ZENworks Patch Management (ZPM) service in order to manage and deploy the multitude of patches being released by our software vendors. A majority of these patches require a reboot of your workstation in order for them to become active. ZPM allows us to manage these reboots in a consistent manner and also gives the user flexibility by allowing reboots to be delayed or cancelled.

This figure illustrates what happens when ZPM installs patches that require a reboot of your computer (click on the image to zoom in).

 

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