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More than 70,000 Ohio State faculty, students and staff have visited my.osu.edu to initiate their first password change, transitioning them to the new Identity and Access Management (IdM) System and contributing to the university’s efforts to consolidate disparate account management processes. The IdM Program’s foundation provides important security and identity management functions across the university in addition to password changing.

Creating Individual Accounts

Summary of Consumer Information on Copyrighted Materials

The Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 requires the university to annually notify students about consumer information on the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted materials through illegal downloading or peer-to-peer distribution of intellectual property. This information can also be beneficial to faculty and staff.

Summary of Civil and Criminal Penalties for Violation of Federal Copyright Laws

The Office of the Chief Information Officer now provides the Ohio State community with video tutorials for configuring to connect to the OSU Wireless network. The operating systems featured in the videos are Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.5/10.6.

The OCIO Information Technology Resource guides for students, faculty, and staff are now available online. The reference guides highlight university-provided information and learning technology resources and services available at Ohio State. A limited number of printed copies are available at the IT Service Desk, 025 Central Classroom Building, 2009 Millikin Road. To view and download your copy, visit ocio.osu.edu/guides.

To enhance a student's learning experience and advance collaborative teaching and learning, Ohio State's Knowlton School of Architecture (KSA) creatively blended technology into their open studio environment. KSA created an online studio environment that includes two specialized web applications that house the Digital Library, a collection of educational digital media that supports the curricula and is host to both the School's Open Educational Resources and KSA Community.

The Office of the Chief Information Officer is retiring the university UseNet newsgroup service on April 4. The popularity of the service has dwindled dramatically since the evolution of the Web, social networks, blogs, mailing lists, and e-mail services.

If you have questions regarding this announcement, contact the IT Service Desk at 8help@osu.edu or call 614-688-HELP (4357).

Beginning February 1, the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) will discontinue the use and support for Cisco VPN Client versions 5.x (Windows) and 4.9 (Mac) that use the IPSec protocol for OSU network connections. All users will be required to download and install the new Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client version 2.x.

Cisco AnyConnect is a virtual private network (VPN) client that provides remote users with secure VPN connections to the OSUnet.

The Office of the Chief Information Officer's OSUWeb.net dial-up Internet service will be discontinued on March 1, 2011. OSUWeb.net was implemented many years ago as a replacement service for HomeNet, when few dial up alternatives were available. OCIO has decided to discontinue offering OSUWeb.net due to outdated equipment and a declining user-base.

The Office of the Chief Information Officer’s HomeNet dial-up Internet service will be discontinued on September 1, 2010. HomeNet was implemented many years ago at a time when few dial up alternatives were available. OCIO has decided to discontinue offering HomeNet due to outdated equipment, a declining user-base, and the current budget constraints.

The Identity and Access Management (IdM) Program, with support from University Communications, will deliver a new self-service tool for identity (lastname.#) and password management. The new tool will completely replace the existing Account Management site with a range of new functionality and features, including 24x7 access for resetting a forgotten password and recovering a forgotten OSU Internet Username.