Keep Working: Setting Up Your Home Office

This is part one of our “Working from Home Essentials” series, transcribed from the “Working from Home Essentials” webinar hosted in March 2020.

First of all, I want to say thank you! I know everyone is doing some heroics these days to continue supporting our campus and our community, so thank you for all you are doing and know that it is very much appreciated.

Work from Home iconIn this blog post, we are going to go through a couple of different things about working from home or working remotely. I know our situation now is a little bit different than your normal telecommuting situation. Many of us will have children and spouses in the house as well, so that adds some complications. Hopefully, you’ll find some useful information today on the equipment that you need and the different resources that we have available to you. Continue reading Keep Working: Setting Up Your Home Office

New GlobalProtect Service Adds More VPN Capacity

GlobalProtect application iconWith work-from-home needs significantly rising during this time, OIT has been working over the past several days to implement additional resources to allow for more concurrent connections to the SMU network from off-campus. We are now happy to announce that the Palo Alto GlobalProtect VPN service is now available as an option for connecting to SMU’s Virtual Private Network (VPN) in addition to our existing Cisco AnyConnect VPN service.

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