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 When did you last change your password?
Good information security requires picking a password that's "strong" (hard to guess), protecting it from disclosure, and not keeping the same one for a long time. If you haven't changed the password for your Medical ID in a while, you'll soon be receiving a notice about password expiration. Use of the Medical ID as an authenticator for increasing numbers of campus applications requires us to be ever stricter about such rules. Learn more about password safety. 
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 Is your Outlook email running a bit slowly?
If you've upgraded to Microsoft Office 2007 for Windows, one of the things you may have noticed about the new version of Outlook is a tendency to run slowly. You may even notice it with Outlook 2003. Sometimes the fault lies not in our software but in ourselves. If you have a gigantic inbox, used for filing every email you've received over the last few years, that may be the culprit. Read tips for speeding up Outlook and managing your email better.
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 Do you need the new Office 2008 for Macs?
The newest version of Microsoft Office for Mac systems will be available to campus users in February. It includes updated versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage. But should you upgrade your Mac to Office 2008 right away? As with Office 2007 for Windows, many of the new features are compelling. However, all new software has bugs, particularly Microsoft's. Read about the pros and cons before you take the plunge.
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 Monitoring your workplace computing activities
What do we know about your computing habits? The short answer is "pretty much everything." Keeping campus information resources secure requires monitoring of all activities on the network. That includes email and Web browsing activities, data transfers and storage, and just about anything else you can think of. Occasionally, activities that are considered dangerous are blocked outright, including access to some Web destinations.
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