Information and Services for Faculty and Staff
Enterprise e-mail is provided to all UT Arlington faculty and staff upon activation of their NetID. The service is provided by the Microsoft Exchange E-mail server. The officially supported means to access UT ARLINGTON e-mail is with either the Microsoft Outlook e-mail client on the Windows platform, Microsoft Entourage on the MacOS platform, or via the Microsoft Exchange Web interface with a compliant Web browser.
Full Disk Encryption
Full Disk Encryption (FDE) provides protection for computers and laptops by encrypting the hard drive and requiring a password at boot up to access the system. Should the computer or laptop ever be stolen then any data stored on the hard drive will not be accessible to those who do not have the password. FDE is avilable to all Windows XP Professional and Windows 7 Enterprise laptops on the UTA domain. The full disk encryption software ensures our compliance with UT System Security Practice Bulletin #1. Other Microsoft Windows systems, Macintosh, Linux and Unix operating systems will be addressed at a later date.There are no plans to encrypt desktop systems at this time.
HPC
High Performance Computing is intended for use by UTA faculty, along with their staff and students, pursuing serious programs of research and specialized teaching.
J:Drive
Every faculty/staff member is allocated 10 GB of network storage space, commonly referred to as J: drive. The files in this storage space are backed up on a nightly basis. J: drive is mapped to the user account automatically and shows up under My Computer when logging on the computers on the UTA domain.
NEW! Faculty and Staff “J” Drive
Faculty and staff continue to need increased network storage to hold electronic files. OIT has been working hard to provide a solution that is a significant increase in space and does not present a difficult transition to you. The new space, 10 Gig per user, will replace the current “J” drive and all of your files will be moved for you. The new system is backed up every day so your data is protected.
What can you store in this space? As long as it meets the acceptable use policy, http://www.uta.edu/oit/policies/acceptable-use-info-resources.php you can store anything. We recommend that you use this space for your critical files and data. OIT provides a very robust enterprise scale backup and recovery system and all of the data on this system will be backed up using this system. If you have a question about what can be stored please call the helpdesk at ext. 22208. This space will work just as the current space does; you will be able to drag and drop files into it just as you currently do.
When will this happen? We are working on a schedule and will be in contact with Departments across the campus very soon. We plan to have everyone migrated by the end of April 2010.
What do you need to do? Once we notify you that we are ready to migrate your files, you will need to log off during the migration and log back in once the migration is complete. That is all.
What will be different? The only difference is that you will have more space. All of your files, folders, etc. will be the same.
Mav Space
MavSpace is a web based storage space for students, faculty, and staff. You can access files saved on MavSpace from any location as long as you have an Internet connection and a web browser.
NetID
UT Arlington provides a computer account referred to as a "NetID." The NetID gives you access to UT Arlington computing resources. Faculty & Staff with current appointments must have someone from the employing department submit the NetID account request form on-line at http://www.uta.edu/netidrequest/.
Statistical Expert Support
The mission of Statistical Services is to help faculty, staff, and students with those aspects of their research that involve the use of statistics and statistical computing.
Test Form Scanning
Scanning and evaluations will be dropped off and picked up in the OIT main office, B51 Davis Hall, where the Production Control office staff will assist you. The actual scanning of forms will take place at Arlington Regional Data Center (ARDC), formerly known as UTACC, in Fort Worth.
Student Organizations
OIT actively supports Student Organizations with services such as Printing in OIT Computing Facilities, Mailing Lists, Official Web Pages, Maverick Wikis, Maverick Blogs, and Training and Documentation.
Training
OIT's Training and Documentation Services team is ready to provide training and orientations to meet the needs of UTA students, faculty, and staff. Every semester we offer free computer classes covering topics such as MyMav, MavSpace, MavMail, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, Student Web pages, NetID and others.
Unix for Teaching/Research
Web Space
Class- and research-related websites, as well as student organization and UT Arlington administration pages, are considered official. To request an official web space, please go to the IT Help page