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In This Issue . . . The newsletter for IPFW computer users Information Technology Services May 2002 New Remote File Access: http://ilogin.ipfw.edu …….…...……...……... Page 1 Securing Your E-Mail Ove r The Web...…………... Page 1 Byte-S i z e N E W S … … … … … … … … … … . … … … … … P a g e 2 Office XP In Student- Access Labs New Student E- Mail System M acromedia Software Suite at Follett Books Yer Outta Here! May Short Courses Free to Faculty and Staff…………….……..Page 2 By Pam Zepp New Remote File Access: http://ilogin.ipfw.edu O ver the past year, IPFW faculty and staff have enjoyed the ability to access their Network drives from remote locations via a Web-based software interface called Universal File Share (UFS). On May 1 s t, ITS will replace UFS with a new and improved interface called i-Login. Beginning May 1 s t, when you go to the UFS Web address your browser will jump to the i-Login Web address. To save time, bookmark the new i-Login page and remove UFS from your bookmarks. Files that reside on the IPFW network are stored on a secure server requiring a secure browser connection. Both Internet Explorer and Netscape will warn you when you are entering a secure Web site and you may be prompted to manually authorize the secure mode connection. For best results Windows users should use Internet Explorer 5.x. Mac users will need to use Netscape since IE for the Mac does not support importing external security certificates. For complete information and installation of security certificates, read the accompanying article “Securing Your E-Mail Over the Web” in this issue of InfoShare. i -Login can also be used to access your IPFW Webmail or subscribe to the IPFW Newsgroups. For more information on i-Login, go to the FAQs linked from the i-Login sign-in page. http://ilogin.ipfw.edu By William Baden confirm its identity. The authentication process uses cryptography to verify that a trusted independent third party, or certificate authority, such as VeriSign, has registered and identified the server. SSL can also authenticate connecting users or their computers. In addition, SSL encrypts the data that you send, and incorporates a mechanism for detecting any alteration in transit, so that eavesdropping on or tampering with Web traffic is almost impossible. This is essential for safely transmitting highly confidential information such as credit card numbers. How do you know if a site is on a secure server? By default, both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer will warn you when you are entering or leaving a secure Web site. If you have these notifications turned off, the browsers also provide visual clues. Netscape Navigator: The key at the bottom left of the window, which is broken and on a yellow background for insecure sites, will be whole and over a blue background. Internet Explorer: A padlock will appear in the bottom of the browser window. How do you obtain an IPFW certificate? Without an IPFW SSL Certificate you will be prompted by a Security Alert window to confirm your "trust" in the Securing Your E-mail Over The Web A secure Web site uses encryption and authentication standards to protect the confidentiality of Web transactions. If your browser fails to recognize a site as secure, i.e., "trusting" its transmission encryption, you will be alerted by a popup window. You may then manually authorize access in secure mode. To automatically "trust" such IPFW sites, you can install a "certificate" on your computer. It will provide automatic confirmation of your "trust" in IPFW's secured transactions (see below). This option for e-mail is now available to faculty/staff (GroupWise Web interface, http://webmail.ipfw.edu) and students (NIMS). Currently, the most commonly used protocol for Web security is SSL, or Secure Socket Layer. In addition to providing security for HTTP (Web hypertext) transactions, SSL works with other TCP/IP standards such as IMAP mail and LDAP directory access. For a security standard such as SSL to work, your browser and the Web server must both be configured to use it. When you connect to a Web site using SSL, your browser asks the server to authenticate itself, or (Continued on page 2) InfoShare (Securing Your E-mail, Continued from page 1) content transmission between your browser and each secure IPFW Web page every time you access one. To eliminate this repeated prompting, you need to install an IPFW Root SSL Certificate on your computer from each browser you use. (If you use only one browser -- e. g., Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator -- you only need install the certificate from that one browser.) The installation instructions for each browser are available at: http://www.its.ipfw.edu/docs/comm/secure.html [Adapted from Indiana University's Knowledgebase and IT Services' FAQs] Office XP In Student-Access Labs Starting this summer, all studentaccess labs will offer MS Office XP (Word, Excel, Access, an d PowerPoint) in addition to MS Office 2000. For the duration of the summer, students will have a choice in Microsoft Office suites. In the fall, Office 2000 will be removed in favor of Office XP. Unlike previous Office upgrades, compatibility between the older and newer versions is very good and students using Office 2000 off-campus should not experience any severe file interchange problems. IPFW employees and students may purchase personal copies of Office XP at Follett Books. New Student E-mail System Novell’s Internet Messaging System (NIMS), was introduced after Spring break. The old student e-mail, Dmail and Pine, will be fad ing away on May 15, 2002. Macromedia Software Suite at Follett Books A new licensing agreement between IUB and Macromedia makes available to all IPFW faculty, staff, and students a suite of Web development tools for $99. Due to the unique nature of this license, preorders will be taken on a weekly basis at Follett Books through the first of June. The suite includes: Dreamweaver UltraDev 4 ColdFusion 5 Studio HomeSite 5.0 Fireworks 4.0 Flash 5.0 FreeHand 10.0 (Components cannot be sold individually) For more details, see: http://www.its.ipfw.edu/buysoftware.html Page 2 Short Courses MS Word Productivity Tools for the Workplace (Part 1) Tuesday - May 14th - 9:30 - 11:30 A.M. (Part 2) Thursday - May 16th - 9:30 - 11:30 A.M. Excel Basics (part 1) Monday – May 13th - 2:00 - 4:00 P.M. (part 2) Wednesday – May 15th - 2:00 - 4:00 P.M. Excel Beyond the Basics (Part 1) Tuesday - May 28th - 1:30 - 3:30 P.M. (Part 2) Thursday - May 30th - 1:30 - 3:30 P.M. Cla s Using PowerPoint in the Classroom me ses Tuesday - May 14th - 2:00 - 4:00 P.M. KT et in 205 B Using DreamWeaver (Part 1) Monday - May 13th - 9:30 - 11:00 A.M. (Part 2) Wednesday - May 15th - 9:30 - 11:00 A.M. GroupWise Basics Thursday - May 2nd - 9:00 - 10:15 A.M. GroupWise Cal endar Friday - May 17th - 10:30 - 11:30 A.M. a ing or r GroupWise Address book B py Friday - May 17th - 9:30 - 10:30 A.M. flop 100 p Zi kette dis GroupWise Rules Thursday - May 9th - 10:00 - 11:00 A.M. Netware Connect Thursday May 2nd, 16th, 30th - 4:00 - 4:30 P.M. Read your campus news in GroupWise Newsgroups! Find out more at: http://www.its.ipfw.edu/FAQS/news.html Yer Outta Here! Well, at least some of you are. But, don’t forget to unsubscribe to your Internet mailing lists. You can easily re-subscribe in the fall. Questions? Call the Help Desk at ext. 6030 or check the Web site: http://www.its.ipfw.edu/fac-staff/listserv_signoff.html 2101 Coliseum Blvd. East, Fort Wayne, IN 46805, (219) 481-6031, Editor: Pamela Zepp, . e-mail: [email protected], InfoShare is a newsletter published by Information Technology Services, http://www.ITS.ipfw.edu Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne