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Last updated: August 31, 2022

Run Advertised Programs -> Software Center

Mar. 30, 2016

The Managed Workstation Service is upgrading the software we use to deploy applications to managed workstations.  What and When Beginning April 5th through April 19th, we will be migrating all managed workstations to a new management infrastructure which provides improved capabilities.   Most…

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Managed Workstation Newsletter (March 2016)

Mar. 21, 2016

Welcome to the semi-annual Managed Workstation service newsletter, which brings you valuable updates and information to help you make the most of our services. New Capabilities and Improvements Windows 10 Self-service Upgrade: In January, we released a self-service mechanism that allows users…

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Managed Workstation Group Management Changes

Mar. 16, 2016

The Managed Workstation service will no longer make group membership changes on your behalf.   What and When: On Friday, March 11th, we changed our position on whether we’ll manage your group memberships. We no longer provide that assistance.   What you…

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Managed Workstation service catalog update

Mar. 15, 2016

A change to our service catalog entry occurred.  What and When: On Friday, March 11th an updated service catalog entry was published at https://itconnect.uw.edu/service/managed-workstation-services/   What you need to do: Nothing. This is purely an advisory to you that we’ve updated the…

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Windows 10 Upgrade

Mar. 15, 2016

The Managed Desktop service has a self-service capability to upgrade your Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 computer to Windows 10.   What and When: We’ve released documentation and will shortly release a desktop shortcut which enables customers to perform an upgrade to…

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Setting Up a Managed Workstation & Lite Touch

Mar. 09, 2016

The Managed Workstation service has revised and added documentation for the commonly recurring task of setting up a managed workstation, including new documentation for a capability we provide that you may not be familiar with.   What and When: There are two…

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Office 2016

Jan. 06, 2016

Office 2016 Office 2016 is now available to install through Run Advertised Programs. To install Office 2016, you can follow these instructions. Adding software from Nebula

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IE Browser Support

Jan. 06, 2016

Browser support changes will be coming on 1/12/2016. Microsoft will drop support for older versions of Internet Explorer, leaving IE11 as the only supported version of Internet Explorer.  Go to the OS and Browser Support page for information.

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Undesired H: Drive Purge

Dec. 24, 2015

H: drive deletions coming for those without departmental eligibility groups Current staff members who are not in your department’s eligibility group will have their home directory (H:drive) deleted on 1/15/2015. Please verify that all of your staff members have been added to…

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Nebula to disable SSLv3

Dec. 22, 2015

Nebula will disable SSLv3 on Nebula workstations and servers which still have it enabled.   What and When: On Tuesday, January 5th, 2016, Nebula will configure managed desktops and its servers to no longer permit SSLv3.   SSLv3 is broadly used to…

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