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  1. What new hires need to do IT-wise before their start date to ensure they hit the ground running
  2. Safe Computing at MIT Best Practices: Safe Computing presentation.pdf
  3. How to connect to MIT Secure (MIT Secure WiFi or direct ethernet cable connection to MITnet is required for printer access)
  4. Register your computer to MIT's network (All new machines must do this registration or they will stop connecting to the network properly after a few weeks. You must do this separately for the wireless AND wired connections if you're using DHCP. Machines using static IPs don't need to be registered.)
  5. Get MIT Certificates and Get MIT Certificate Authority
  6. How to Set Up Your DUO Two-factor Authentication
  7. How to Set Up Your MIT Email
  8. How to Set up Out of Office Replies for your Exchange Emails
  9. How to Setup Exchange Email in Apple Mail
  10. How to Setup Exchange Email in Mac Outlook
  11. How to Setup Exchange Email in Windows Outlook
  12. Proper Care and Feeding of your Exchange Email and Calendaring
  13. How to use Spam Filtering to stop spam emails 
  14. If you're using Spam Filtering, you should turn off Apple Mail's Junk Mail filter
  15. How to create your own DLC or personal website with MIT's Drupal Cloud Service
  16. Travel safely with these IS&T Traveler's IT Tips and information from MIT's OSP
  17. In accordance with Massachusetts state law, all administrative staff are required to adopt recommended practices to protect sensitive data. In particular be vigilant of PHISHING attacks.
  18. How to add an office network printer via IP address in Windows 10 (for this you will need the printer's actual IP address.  All internal printers at MIT start with 10.#.#.#)
  19. How to add an office network printer via IP address in Mac OS X (for this you will need the printer's actual IP address. All internal printers at MIT start with 10.#.#.#)
  20. How to set up Time Machine backups on a Mac (external HD is required)
  21. Care and Feeding of external HDs used for Apple's Time Machine backup program.
  22. How to set up Windows Backup in Windows 7 (external HD is required)
  23. Sign up for MIT's Dropbox
  24. Step by step set up of MIT's Dropbox
  25. IS&T's Dropbox for Business Initial Set up Page (general help with all aspects of MIT dropbox)
  26. How to install and connect to MIT's VPN on a Mac from off campus.
  27. Need to teach or meet remotely? Visit the MIT Zoom Landing Page
  28. Getting started with the Slack Messaging and Collaboration Tool
  29. ZOOM: Setting up your Zoom Personal Room

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