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After Microsoft had officially announced Windows Vista on 29 January 2007, the Computing Services Centre (CSC) formed a task group to study the features of this major version of Microsoft’s operating system and to work out a schedule for its deployment in the CityU. The initial plan was to launch ...
The Student Computer Notebook Long Term Loan Scheme (LLS) has been launched for two months (see Network Computing Issue 57 – September 2008 and Issue 58 - December 2008 for details). It may be a good time to review its progress. The Selected Notebook Models As a pilot run, two computer models ...
In order to enhance students’ learning, the Microsoft Student Option (MSO) under the existing Microsoft’s Campus Agreement (MCA) has been launched since February 2009 (please see the details of the MSO at http://www.cityu.edu.hk/csc/deptweb/services/studentlan/mso/mso.htm ). Through the MSO, the ...
What is Web Conferencing Service Provided? It is a commercial web conferencing service called CISCO WebEX (or WebEX). This new service is arranged and supported by the Computing Services Centre (CSC) and is now available for application. As one of the leading applications in the market for holding ...
CityU's central Web servers (www.cityu.edu.hk, www6.cityu.edu.hk and www7.cityu.edu.hk) are mainly used for publishing university Web pages for departments, but they also allow university Web authors to develop Web applications that require the use of Common Gateway Interface (CGI) and MS SQL ...
The PBX (Public Branch Exchange) phone system that we are currently using is over 18 years old and has already reached its end-of-life cycle. There is a great potential risk of system breakdown due to hardware failure which may impact the majority of the university community. It is therefore ...
Central web hosting service was set up to provide a consolidated, fully monitored and managed environment for hosting departmental web sites and project web sites. Two standard platforms are provided for web hosting, one for Unix/Solaris (www.cityu.edu.hk) and the other for Microsoft Windows Server ...
In the world of computers, data loss can happen in many unpredictable ways, such as sudden physical failure of the storage media, unknown virus attacks even with anti-virus software installed, application software bugs and performance problems, human errors and many more. While there might be ...
As we have announced before, the Computing Services Centre (CSC) has a plan for the provision of Microsoft (MS) Exchange server as an alternative and supported email system for the university. The MS Exchange System is more than an Email system. It is an enhanced, integrated and unified messaging ...
This article addresses the measures that the Computing Services Centre (CSC) plans to take to enhance the network infrastructure such that the Internet will remain accessible to users when all the IT services provided from inside the Main Computer Room (MCR) in the Main Campus become unavailable ...