December 2014 Newsletter

Stanford University suspends operations, where feasible, during the winter holiday season. Accordingly, many University IT offices will close or provide limited support during this period.

University IT is excited to announce that thanks to generous funding assistance from many campus partners, the lynda.com service is now available at no charge to Stanford faculty, staff, and students.

In December, University IT will update Stanford’s Two-Step Authentication service to support more options and WebLogin will get a new look.

Submitting and reviewing expense requests will get a lot easier in early 2015. That’s when University IT and Financial Management Services will roll out a new system to replace iOU.

University IT is piloting the use of Bluetooth through your phone to access a building!

University IT uses a log aggregation and analysis tool called Splunk on hundreds of its core IT systems. Starting December, we are offering the tool to the campus.

How would you like to have the IRS audit you every year? For those involved in managing the university’s administrative applications infrastructure, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) does just that.