Service News Category: 2018 Notifications

  • New desktop icon

    September 27, 2018

    What changed Yesterday, we prematurely delivered a new desktop icon as a planned enhancement–please accept our apologies for any surprises this caused. This new desktop icon is named ‘Upgrade Windows to current version‘. Depending on screen resolution and font choices on your computer, this name may be shortened. If you don’t see this icon, you likely will in the near future. New feature This icon allows any managed workstation which is not running the latest Windows 10 release, to upgrade…

  • Antivirus update within Managed Workstation

    September 4, 2018

    The antivirus solution and process within Managed Workstation has changed. What and When During the month of August, we slowly replaced the prior Sophos product with an entirely new Sophos product with two components. The new product is called Sophos Intercept X. This change was initially made to all Windows 7 computers to help support our efforts to upgrade them to Windows 10, because the older Sophos product was identified as blocking upgrades in some cases. As we gained trust…

  • MWS Training Room End of Life

    As of 10/1/2018, the Managed Workstation training room in Roosevelt Commons is no longer available. There is not enough use for us to continue to provide this resource. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. Brian Arkills Managed Workstation service owner and manager UW-IT

  • Managed Workstation to stop supporting Windows 7 on 8/31

    July 12, 2018

    Managed Workstation will drop OS support for Windows 7 SP1 on 8/31/2018. This will reduce costs and improve security & capabilities, enabling a more useful, up-to-date, functioning workstation. To meet this goal, several steps will be taken: July 19: Begin weekly notifications to customer account contacts of their remaining Windows 7 managed workstations August 1: Contact primary user of remaining Windows 7 computers August 8: Contact primary user of remaining Windows 7 computers August 15: Initiate automatic upgrades for remaining Windows 7 managed…

  • LastPass for Managed Workstation customers

    June 28, 2018

    Managed Workstation is deploying LastPass Enterprise, a password management system, which is now available on an opt-in basis. What & Why Managed Workstation has purchased LastPass Enterprise for all Managed Workstation users. LastPass helps improve password management practices by: securely storing and generating complex passwords, providing secure sharing mechanisms for passwords, both individually between users and via UW Groups automatically entering usernames and passwords on most websites, including the UW web login interfaces, providing warnings about password entry on malicious…