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On March 26th, 2015 we celebrated the Grand Opening of our new main office with an Open
House. Our new location is in SSC 1228 located directly across from Geography's glass display case.
As before, you can reach us through our central number at 519-661-2152 or extension 82152
or via ssts-help@uwo.ca.
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Colour Document Camera
Thanks to the Social Science Student donation fund, we
were able to purchase an Epson ELDPC11 colour
document camera for Social Science faculty, staff and students to
use. The document camera is the
latest way to add interactive and exciting visual technology to your presentation.
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MS OneDrive for Students
NEW!
OneDrive is part of Western's
Microsoft Office 365
deployment for all students. OneDrive is a place
where you can save, store, sync and share files. In
OneDrive, documents
can be created and modified on the fly. It also allows
for version tracking and collaboration. Student
OneDrive accounts have a storage quota currently at 1 TB.
To learn more, try this
Getting started with OneDrive tutorial.
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A Peek at Windows 10
Windows 10 was released to the public
July 29, 2015.
If you are a Windows 8 user, you will notice that the
Start menu is back. More...
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Migrating Graduate U: Drives
With the addition of OneDrive and the need to retire an aging
server, graduate student U: drives will be
migrated to
H: on
SSC-Venus. We are
currently targeting this migration for the end of February.
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Computer Replacement Cycle
The Faculty of Social Science has over 900 desktop computers and laptops that are
actively being used on the Social Science Network. Social Science Technology
Services is managing a five-year desktop computer replacement plan.
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New Lenovo Tiny Computers
The last few bulk computer purchases by Social Science
Technology Services were of the new Small Form Factor
Lenovo ThinkCentre M
Series Tiny Desktop computers.
We conducted multimedia benchmark testing before deploying
any of the Tiny desktops. More...
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Old Computers?
We will pick up your old computer or laptop, take the useful parts out (i.e., power supply, RAM, etc.)
and dispose of the rest in the UWO asset disposal bin. The hard drive
will be destroyed for the security of your data.
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Did You Know?
We have mobile media equipment that can be borrowed
when classroom media equipment is either not available or not
functioning.
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Software News!
You are entitled to install Microsoft Office on up to
FIVE personal devices through the Microsoft
Campus License Agreement.
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