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by Henry Wong
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 ...
by Eva Wong
As e-learning evolves into an integral part of our academic learning environment, the Blackboard platform (Bb) is now a mission critical system at CityU, enabling both staff and students to maximize their productivity. The e-learning project is the major focus of CityU's Information Systems ...
by C Y Kwok
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 ...
by C Y Kwok
Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) is the first and dominant standard network layer protocol in use by computers and electronic devices to exchange data over the Internet. IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses (e.g. 144.214.32.4 in dot-decimal notation), which limits the number of unique addresses to 4.3 ...
by John Chan
You may have experience in receiving email that looks like being sent from the "support", "service", "network/email/web administrator"... etc. of the University, and you were asked to provide your account password by either replying to the email, or clicking a link in the email to access a web page ...
by Raymond Poon
A pilot scheme, the Long Term Notebook Computer Loan Scheme (LLS) for students, was considered by the Committee on Information Services and Technology (CIST) at its meeting on 7 April 2008. The LLS was later approved by the Senate on May 20 2008. It is a mobile support scheme in which the University ...
by John Chan
The Computer Room in the Computing Services Centre (CSC) is the core location where most of the critical IT equipments are resided. The room, built and designed over 20 years ago together with the whole campus, its space was believed to be more than enough when it was first enacted. However, with ...
by S K Tsui
"eduroam" (Education Roaming) is a global wireless network using WPA ( IEEE802.1X) security technology to enable staff and students of a member institution to use the wireless network of another eduroam member with the use of the credentials (user name and password) provided by their home ...
by Joe Chow
While some offices have managed to replace their staff PCs from time to time using their own resources, yet around 1,100 units of desktop PCs that are at least 3 years old are still being used by various administrative and support offices. Such old models are incapable of handling the Microsoft’s ...
by Dick Wong
As mentioned in the previous article on Campus Network Upgrade ( Ref: Network Computing Issue 54 - December 2007 ), the University’s campus network is currently undergoing a major upgrade, from CTNET III to CTNET IV. The network upgrade consists of 2 phases. Phase 1 of the network upgrade was ...