Bryn Mawr College

Recently, there have been many new releases of Internet browsers: Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8, Apple has released Safari 4, and we expect that Mozilla will soon release Firefox 3.5. While these new programs may provide new feature sets as well as faster browsing experiences, they have not yet been fully tested by the Information Services department. We are hard at work at trying out these latest products and seeing how they interact with our present Bryn Mawr College services. Please note that since many of the Bryn Mawr College services are accessed via the Web (Virtual Bryn Mawr, ... Read more»

The recent upgrade made it easier to add events to someone else's calendar within your account (sometimes called a "proxy" calendar). In the earlier version the software always put your default calendar as the calendar where the event should be displayed and you needed to choose the desired calendar from the drop-down (see graphic) . This was true even if your default calendar was "unchecked" and not visible. With the upgrade on June 5th, this can behave differently.  If you unselect all calendars by right-clicking on "v Calendar" ... Read more»

Bryn Mawr Blogs and Forums will be unavailable on Friday evening beginning at 6:00 PM for a scheduled migration to a new server. This includes all "blogs.brynmawr.edu" and "forums.brynmawr.edu" pages. This migration has been tested, and based on the results of that test, we expect the outage to last less than 30 minutes. If you have any questions or concerns about this outage, please direct them to the Help Desk (x7440 or help@brynmawr.edu). Thanks, Andrew Lacey Web Applications and Systems Administrator alacey@brynmawr.edu 610-526-5630

On Friday evening, the Bryn Mawr Communication Center (a.k.a Webmail or Zimbra) underwent its second upgrade since it was installed last June. If you are reading this email in the Communication Center, you have probably noticed that it doesn’t look very different. This upgrade did not change the “look and feel” very much; the purpose of this upgrade was to offer some improvements, and correct a few “bugs” that people had reported. Many of this upgrade’s benefits will be invisible to you because they affect the administration tools and server directly; a brief summary of the changes you will see is available ... Read more»

Our Zimbra update was completed successfully at 9pm this evening.