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Popular open source software used in Mainland

To facilitate researchers' collaboration with Mainland counterparties in Higher Education, Industries or Government ministries/bureaux, ITS has conducted research on popular open source software used in Mainland and tested their compatibility with Office document and files used at PolyU.

Update of Turnitin Assignment on LEARN@PolyU platform

The current interface of LEARN@PolyU platform to Turnitin Cloud will be retired and replaced with Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) interface on 12 August 2022.

New blanket agreement for notebook, PC, and workstation

Are your department planning to replace the aged desktop computers and notebooks in the office? Or looking for a new desktop or workstation with better performance for your new staff? ITS has prepared a 24-month blanket agreement on supply of office desktops and notebooks to facilitate departments in sourcing and procuring PC, notebook and workstation during the period from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2024.

CLO meeting held in July to communicate the latest IT updates

Departmental Computer Liaison Officer (CLO) is an important role who serves as a contact person between ITS and the department on IT related matters. We will arrange quarterly CLO meeting to communicate the latest University IT development with CLOs and invite them to provide their feedback. The CLO meeting was successfully held online on 20 July recently.

Software Access Management records update

Software Asset Management (SAM) is a continuous process to record, classify, review, and control of software installed on University’s computers.

Retirement of Basic Authentication in Office 365 Email

Basic authentication is a traditional method for login with only a pair of username and password. Attackers may easily perform brute force or password spray attacks to system. To cope with cyber-attack, Microsoft decided to disable Basic Authentication in Office 365 Email (Exchange Online) with effective from 1 October 2022.

Enable two-factor authentication for using PolyU O365 apps wherever not in HK SAR

If you are planning to travel out of Hong Kong and will continue using the PolyU O365 apps on MS Cloud (e.g. Outlook email, OneDrive for Business and etc.)

Upcoming courses on Hyperledger Fabric for students

Hyperledger Fabric is an open source enterprise-grade blockchain framework designed for business application development.

Upcoming on-campus AI-900 Certification exam

With heavy demands of taking AI-900 Certification Exam from students, there will be six extra on-campus exam sessions in the Summer Term.

End of Support for Internet Explorer

According to Microsoft’s announcement, Internet Explorer (the Windows bundled browser) was ended support on 15 June 2022