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In this edition of OIT’s Technology News, we highlight protecting Office 365 with Duo, the employee directory, the availability of MS Teams and Adobe Creative Cloud, plus much more.

We are now that contains employee office contact information that can be searched within my.SMU. Your ÃÛÌÒ½´ID card photo , as well as other internal Microsoft services and programs such as Outlook and SharePoint.

ÃÛÌÒ½´faculty, staff, and students now have access to - Microsoft Teams. Use MS Teams to keep all your department or group's chats, meetings, files, and apps together in one place. After the successful launch of Duo two-factor authentication for my.SMU, OIT will be moving forward with the next step in our effort to safeguard student and employee accounts by .

, we discuss the campaign to onboard all matriculated students to use two-factor authentication (2FA), the amount of personal data left on mobile devices, how we avoid deceptive practices in our simulated phishing campaigns to campus, plus Ms. Security answers questions about malware and Facebook passwords.

Since its inception, the Microsoft Office Specialist Certification Progam has awarded over 900 certifications during its pilot. Now, and students can receive their information literacy proficiency by taking the MOS Certification. We are excited to announce the new licensing with Adobe for the Adobe Creative Cloud suite. As part of this new license, employees will be able to .

After continued testing of the features and functionality of each phone, we have decided to go with just one primary device for all employees. Over the past few months, great progress has taken place on several fronts for the web team, including a major upgrade to Sitecore 9, building new "Cornerstone" templates, and .

As we begin a new fiscal year, another large batch of faculty and staff computers are now eligible for replacement under the University Technology Fund. Before you place those orders, . On May 30, 2019, the University will implement a change to the existing password requirements.  will now have a minimum length of 12 characters and will expire after 365 days versus the current 180 days.

This year, two OIT Academic Technology Service Directors (ATSDs) were recognized by the ÃÛÌÒ½´Faculty Senate for making an incredible difference for faculty. . Canvas Corner This month in Canvas Corner, we cover updates for the Canvas App for iOS and Android, the ability to copy courses/content from the instances of Canvas, and .

Save The Date: Canvas Boot Camp The OIT Canvas Boot Camp returns this August. The all-day workshop begins Wednesday, August 21, 2019. More details to come.