Traveling? Protect your data!
As summer gets underway, people in various departments on campus will be traveling on University-related business (or just for fun).

As you are probably well aware, one of the biggest risks when traveling is the loss or theft of mobile devices … even more so if the device contains University-owned data. What would you do if you lost your mobile device en route to a conference? In a bid to assist University travelers, the IT Security Office has put together a list of suggested security checks you should consider before you leave on your trip.

Please visit th IT Travel Security website for details.

If you need any assistance or have questions or concerns, please contact the IT Security Office at 335-6332, or via e-mail at security@uiowa.edu.

New Computer Resource
Have a question about something computer-related? Check out the HCIS Technology Solution Center website. The Technology Solution Center is dedicated to providing computer-related support to faculty, staff and students at UI Hospitals and Clinics, UI Carver College of Medicine, and the Health Care Communities. You can find information about hardware, software, email, and wireless topics - plus much more! Check it out!

While Office 2007 is not widely deployed in the College of Medicine, many of you are using it at home.  A guide developed by ITS serves as both an introduction to Microsoft Word 2007, as well as a guide to better assist your transition from Word 2003 to Word 2007. The bulk of this publication ia a "How to" manual presenting the fundamental steps in Word 2007, but also includes tables at the end of each section comparing the steps taken in Word 2003 to the steps now taken in Word 2007.

While Microsoft has made some noticeable changes to their latest release of Office, with the assistance of this guide, your transition should not be too intimidating. The instructions in the guide are assume that all settings are the defaults. If you have changed any of the settings in Word 2007, the images and instructions may be somewhat different. As a point of reference, the images you see in the guide were taken on a Windows Vista PC using Microsoft Word 2007.

Link to Guide:  http://cs.its.uiowa.edu/sda/documents/LifeAfterWord2003.pdf

- Christopher Smith