OIT Technology News:
End of the Year 2022 Edition

As we wrap up the term and calendar year, we have a lot of news we want to share with you, from SMU at SC22, to networking enhancements at East Campus, to improved Identity Management, and a worm going digital, plus so much more.



From November 13 to 17, Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center in Downtown Dallas was home to Supercomputing 2022 (SC22), where leading minds, including those from SMU, and vendors in high-powered computing, .



Recently, a couple of members of the Office of Information Technology's leadership team , and even winners, in their fields.



OIT has embarked on an exciting multi-year, multi-project journey to services at SMU and replace our in-house developed AMA.



Conner Ozenne ’23, in collaboration with other SMU students and faculty, built the Hyer Performance Cluster, also known as , from scratch in just four months.



Recent projects have taken place to replace these wireless connections in SMU's East Campus with to the rest of the SMU network.



Who would have thought that a simple question over a game at the Rec Center would result in a for the Data and Application Services team?



Many of our technology systems allow you to state these pronouns within your profile, and we have outlined the process to .



Soon, OIT will to our Microsoft 365 cloud service to simplify mailbox management and reduce University costs.



Six years ago, SMU implemented DUO two-factor authentication to protect our data proactively and has throughout many of the University's IT services.



In an effort to strengthen password security, , or words related to an SMU campaign that are vulnerable to password-guessing attacks.



To help our faculty and instructors stay on course with instructional technology, OIT's Academic Technology Services Team is offering for the new term.



We have implemented more to our Microsoft services to increase security and improve your login experience.



Beginning January 1, 2023, SMU’s retention policy for instructional videos hosted in Panopto will be regulated with a .



Effective February 9, 2023, . We highly recommend the SMU community upgrade their devices operating systems.



If you missed it, our latest Progress Report, our year in review, is .

 


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