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Faculty/staff: Archive your Oracle Calendar events

Posted on by Amanda Tross

The university transitioned from Oracle Calendar to K-State Zimbra Calendar over the summer. Oracle Calendar is still available as an archive, but will be decommissioned in early 2011.

Easy-to-follow instructions are available for you to export your Oracle Calendar data and then import it into K-State Zimbra. This will allow you to have a copy of past events from your Oracle Calendar accessible in your K-State Zimbra Calendar. Other Oracle Calendar archiving options are available if you’d rather not import your past events into K-State Zimbra.

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Another way to detect phishing scam e-mails

Posted on by Harvard Townsend (harv@ksu.edu)

The daily count of compromised eIDs dropped after July 28 when a warning was sent to all K-Staters via the security-alerts mailing list, but sadly, some people are still responding to phishing scams and giving their eID password to criminals.

Quota/storage scams

Some of these scams try to convince people they have exceeded a quota or limit on the amount of e-mail they can store on the system. All such e-mails are scams, because there is no limit on the amount of e-mail you can store in K-State’s Zimbra e-mail system. Thus, a quick way to recognize a scam: Anything that indicates you have exceeded a storage limit or quota in K-State’s e-mail is a scam. Like other scams, you can simply ignore and delete the e-mail.

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Hotmail error-message issue being addressed

Posted on by the editors

K-Staters who send e-mail to

  • an individual’s Hotmail address or
  • an individual who forwards their K-State e-mail to a Hotmail address

have been receiving the error message shown below. K-Staters might also notice a similar message from other e-mail providers. Information Technology Services (ITS) is working with Zimbra to get this issue resolved as quickly as possible. ITS apologizes for the inconvenience.

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Spring 2010 TechBytes series begins Thursday, Feb. 4

Posted on by Cathy Rodriguez

The TechBytes series begins Feb. 4.  Sessions are scheduled 1:30-2:30 p.m. in Hale Library.

Thursdays TechBytes topic Location
Feb. 4 Windows 7 501 Hale Library
Feb. 11 Yolink Search 501 Hale Library
Feb. 18 Time to Talk 501 Hale Library
Feb. 25 Many Uses of WordPress 301A Hale Library
March 4 Twitter Tools 501 Hale Library
March 11 Zimbra Calendar 501 Hale Library
March 25 Google Wave 501 Hale Library

TechBytes seminars are free and open to the K-State community. This series shares technology innovations with the campus community, whether it’s a new technology or a new way to use an existing technology. Visit the TechBytes website for descriptions of the sessions.