Spring Semester 2019: Good start at ETH Zurich
The IT Services warmly welcomes all students! The most common questions are briefly explained in the “FAQ for Students“.
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Migration to SharePoint 2016 completed
Last weekend (16th-17th February), after long planning and several test phases, we have successfully migrated more than 270 Site Collections with over 1TB content, from SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint 2016. And we made it all in one go!
WeiterlesenLeonhard Med: Secure Scientific Platform for Confidential Data
A secure, powerful and versatile IT infrastructure for research on confidential data at ETH Zurich
Providing IT solutions for scientific research on confidential data (e.g. human biomedical data) is a considerable challenge. This is because it requires fulfilling three main criteria that span a wide area of expertise, and that are difficult to achieve simultaneously:
- security and compliance
- flexibility and ease of use and
- scalability and performance
ITS Service Desk News
For the first time, the ITS Service Desk opens a temporary Pop-Up Desk at Hönggerberg at the start of the semester and can generally be reached earlier by phone.
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Introduction of the events calendar version 2018.1
In collaboration with the Services department, ITS SWS is working on implementing a new version of the events calendar of ETH Zurich. From the client’s point of view, the aim is to rebuild all components of the overall system using modern design methods while considering the highest standards when it comes to user-friendliness. This goal is to be achieved in three stages over three years, the first of which was devoted primarily to the presentation of the events in AEM (ETH website) and on information screens, which were successfully launched on 13 December, 2018. Weiterlesen
Introductory and farewell lectures digitised
Introductory and farewell lectures: Digitisation of historic content completed.
After more than five years, Multimedia Services have recently completed the project for digitising the analogue and «semi-digital» (digital data on analogue tape) recordings of inaugural and farewell lectures for the ETH library: The project, which started with the establishment of a «digitisation station» for VHS, DV and DAT tapes had to struggle with synchronisation problems initially and the lack of labor ressources at the later stages, which had to be put on ice for the migration of the video management system, and which also had to overcome hurdles due to licensing law, can now finally be viewed at http://www.video.ethz.ch/speakers/lecture.html: A complete collection of introductory and farewell lectures recorded at ETH Zurich. Weiterlesen
Making of: inside|out newsletter no. 17
IT news at ETH Zurich – «Find out what’s going on in terms of IT at ETH Zurich»: the 17th inside|out newsletter is online.
This is what the result looks like, but there was a long way to go. Weiterlesen
polybox – you can now collaborate when working on documents
polybox is the established cloud storage service used by ETH Zurich. It now also enables synchronous (or asynchronous) online collaboration for all ETH members. In addition to the usual online storage and sharing of documents, it is now also possible to edit documents together in the web browser.
The trigger for the new functionalities was the demand from the Educational Development and Technology department (LET). LET wanted to offer students an opportunity to collaborate online. After a successful proof of concept phase (polyboxEdu), the online office functionalities are now permanently available on polybox. Weiterlesen
PROTECT YOUR BRAINWORK. – Protect your Devices
The new IT security campaign has started – «Protect your Devices» with the focus on «Prevent theft – reduce losses».
Photos, final theses, e-banking – mobile work anywhere, anytime has long since become an everyday occurrence. With this in mind, most users own several devices: a smartphone, a tablet, a laptop. Protecting these devices against theft and unauthorised access is worthwhile, because insecure devices also put your data at risk. Information security starts with the end device. PROTECT YOUR BRAINWORK. Weiterlesen
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