Colleagues,
In order to protect the University computers from an exploit that takes advantage of the autorun feature of the Windows operating system, the autorun feature will be disabled for all Windows devices.  This  modification will affect all computers that are joined to the UTPA domain.  The computers that are not joined to the domain but [...]

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SPSS 17 is now available to be installed on UTPA-owned computers.  The SPSS Statistics family of products is the world’s leading statistical software used by commercial, government, and academic organizations to solve business and research problems.
To access the software follow the steps below:
1) Go to Start Menu and then click on Control Panel
2) Click on [...]

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 Faculty and Staff,On Friday March 20th, 2009, at 11:00 p.m., Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Windows Vista will be sent to all managed computers on campus currently running Windows Vista.  This Service Pack will restart your computer several times during the installation.  It is critical that computers are not manually restarted during the installation.  No computers [...]

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Everyone,
Microsoft is no longer black listing our emails being sent to Hotmail and Broncs.utpa.edu email addresses. Email is now being routed as normal.
Thank you,
Division of Information Technology

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Several individuals are experiencing difficulty in sending emails from our Exchange mailbox to our students who are currently using hotmail accounts. Our students are not receiving any emails being sent from anyone sending from a UTPA email address.
We have determined that we are being blacklisted by Microsoft due to various individuals on campus mass mailing [...]

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