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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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