ABRAHAM BALDWIN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

Hardware and Software Supported by OITS

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Hardware

Employees’ personally-owned computers are not to be used in place of computers provided by OITS. OITS has software and processes in place to ensure that operating systems and anti-virus programs are up to date.

Faculty and staff may use personal laptops for wireless access to Internet-based resources.  No access will be provided to LANS (local area networks) via a wireless connection.   To ensure that personal devices have up-to-date operating system and antivirus software, a program will be installed on such devices to provide validation services.  OITS TechSupport will assist with this process, if needed.  

Student data is not to be stored on personal devices; this includes such data as student names, IDs, grades, etc. 

Software

The official software for institutional administrative office support through ABAC's Office of Information Technology and Services is Microsoft Office.  A campus license for Microsoft Office provides word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation graphic and personal information management software. 

Anti-virus supported by OITS is McAfee's VirusScan ASAP.  No other anti-virus solution should be installed unless so instructed by OITS. 

The primary e-mail clients supported are  Eudora and Microsoft Outlook (not Outlook Express). 

Currently, both Internet Explorer and Netscape browsers are supported. 

Approved:  February 2010

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