Published: 05/02/2007

After years of discussion and debate, the move from Meeting Maker to Outlook for electronic scheduling is set to happen in June.  Everyone on campus who currently uses Meeting Maker will migrate to the Microsoft Exchange server for this service.  Highlights of this project:

• Your Meeting Maker data will be transferred automatically to Outlook, at a date to be announced (likely during the 1st, 2nd or 3rd weekend in June)

• If you do NOT want your Meeting Maker data transferred to Outlook (because you already maintain your Outlook calendar; you have a PDA synch to Outlook, etc.), contact Heather at 8-8739 to add your account to the exclusion list

• After the migration is complete, Meeting Maker will cease to function

• We are providing more than 30 hands-on training classes to bring you up to speed on Outlook shared calendaring.  We encourage everyone who uses Meeting Maker to attend one of these transition courses.  See this brochure for information.

• If you do not have a Meeting Maker account, you will not need to do anything

Published: 05/02/2007

The Systems Support Office has made concerted efforts to reduce the amount of e-mail spam we all have been receiving.  Microsoft has released a number of tools & techniques to assist us in the venture.  We have been cautiously introducing them into our environment and analyzing their effects over the past two months.  For the most part, these tools are working great.  Approximately 90% of all e-mail is now being flagged as spam with few reports of legitimate messages falling into the spam category.

However, the report of "false positives" are not zero; some legitimate messages are landing in the Junk E-Mail folder.  Here is what you should do:

• Periodically check your Junk E-Mail for valid messages; anything older than 30 days is automatically deleted from this folder, so routine inspection is advised

• Set a rule that allows all messages from ISU, no matter how much they look like spam.  To do this:

  • go to Actions -> Junk E-Mail -> Junk E-Mail Options

  • Select the "Safe Senders" tab

  • Select "Add"

  • Type in "@ilstu.edu" and press OK

  • If you participate in ISU listservs, also add "@listserv.ilstu.edu"