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- Proper Care and Feeding of your Exchange Email and Calendaring
- How to use Spam Quarantine to stop spam emails
- MIT users should install Sophos to protect against malware and virus attacks
- All Macs should be using Time Machine to provide local, disaster recovery backups for your Mac. The Time Machine software comes on your Mac. All you need is an external hard drive connected to your Mac to run the backup.
- All Windows 7 users and later should be using Windows Backup to provide local, disaster recovery backups for your Windows computer. Like Time Machine on the Mac, all you need is an external hard drive connected to your Windows computer to run the backup.
- For a secondary internet off site backups for just your data files, we recommend IS&T's newly adopted Crash Plan. IS&T is currently in the early adopter phase of Crash Plan's release cycle so we will update this page as soon as it is officially live for everyone in the community. We recommend everyone use BOTH Time Machine or Windows Backup AND Crash Plan once it is live to the general institute community to make sure all of your files are 100% backed up and secured.
Equipment Disposal
- To have old computer equipment (desktops, laptops, monitors, scanners, printers, etc) removed, go to Atlas and fill out a Campus->Service Request->Create Request form for recycling.
Before discarding unwanted equipment, please make sure that if the device has an MIT asset tag that it has been properly deactivated and that all confidential data has been securely wiped. Please contact Albert or Dan if you are uncertain how to do these steps. We'd be happy to take care of all steps of equipment deactivation, data wiping, and disposal.
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