VMWare Workstation Pro Now Free for Personal Use!

virtual sandbox iconVMWare Workstation has been a leading hypervisor solution for many years, allowing you to install virtual environments for many tasks, like running Linux within a window on your Windows or Mac computer, or Windows on a Mac, etc. Now, VMWare has released VMWare Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro for free for personal use! Continue reading VMWare Workstation Pro Now Free for Personal Use!

Safe Links Add Enhanced Security to Your Email

Checked Email iconLast week, OIT enabled Safe Links to emails inbound to campus. This security features has been in use for some time in Microsoft Teams. We’ve now extended the service to protect  SMU email accounts, adding an additional layer of security to inspect embedded URLs in emails for possible phishing/malware sites in real-time. Continue reading Safe Links Add Enhanced Security to Your Email

IT Connect in 2024: A Year in Review

IT Connect logo2024 has been a busy year for us at IT Connect, with our team writing 123 articles for the SMU community—a full two-fifths of them by Zach Peterson alone. Over the past year, we had almost 58,000 visitors to our blog, averaging over 1,500 views per week.

The most popular posts for this past year dealt with Continue reading IT Connect in 2024: A Year in Review

Copyleaks To Replace TurnitIn for Plagiarism Detection

CopyleaksThis term will be the last for Turnitin. After many years as our go-to for plagiarism detection, the University is moving to a new advanced plagiarism detection tool designed to ensure the originality of academic work. Maintaining academic integrity is crucial, and Copyleaks will provide us the technology to help uphold these standards with ease and accuracy.

Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, Copyleaks can easily Continue reading Copyleaks To Replace TurnitIn for Plagiarism Detection