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Call Center Digest, 10/2/2015

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New Things:

SCF support – OCH is now the official point-of-contact for support in the labs (other than Milne lab). Escalations will be via split ticket to the SCF queue in Coho. The Endpoint Management (EPM) team under Jason Appah will be handling those escalations.

Citrix XenApp (apps.oregonstate.edu) – escalations for XenApp should also be via split ticket to the SCF queue.

XBox issues – Apparently the Xbox services have been having some outages lately, which may account for problems we have been seeing.  For Xbox status info, see http://xbox.com/status and https://twitter.com/XboxSupport.

Gmail IMAP auth problem – Andy Morgan researched this and provided a fix. It requires enabling two-factor auth and setting an application-specific password for IMAP. This affects people trying to use Outlook and Mac Mail to access Gmail. (See ticket#0355359 for detailed steps – this will be added to Helpdocs soon.)

Cascades number added to CN queue signature – the automatic signature for the CN base queue now includes the Cascades number (thanks to Tom for suggesting this).

Office 365 Sync issues – This is still on-going, but it sounds like Jason is zeroing in on a fix. For now, please continue to escalate to Jeff or Kirsten if people do not have a license (make sure they are registered for classes first).

Highlights:

Dorm Visits – Kudos to Ed, Jorge, Meera, Jazmyn and Jade for all the dorm visits they did last week. They met with a couple hundred students and helped a lot of new students have an easier start of term. Thank you!

New student employees kicking butt – Welcome to all our new employees! You all are kicking butt and taking names (and making tickets).  Keep up the good work.

Upcoming Events:

Saturday 10/3/2015, 6:00AM – 8:00AM – Wireless network maintenance 

Saturday 10/3/2015, 6:00AM – 6:15AM – Maintenance for CORE, MyDegrees, Evals, MyOSU, and others (More Info)

Some Stats for Fun & Profit:

  • There are 1,023 unresolved tickets across all Helpdesk and CN queues. (We started the week with 1,138.)
  • Li spent an hour on the phone helping a faculty member with Canvas. Be nice to him. He earned it.

 

 

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Canvas Support Tips

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We are getting more requests about Canvas now. Here are some reminders to help you with these requests.

Canvas Login: http://oregonstate.instructure.com

Best way to get to the Canvas login: Go to the OSU home page, click on “Online Services” and click on the big, happy Canvas button. Canvas is CAS-based auth, so you will be directed to the CAS login.oregonstate.edu page (unless you are already logged in to CAS).

If people can’t login, they should contact OCH for help.

For most other questions, customers should click on the “Help” link in the upper-right corner within Canvas to get help from Instructure. If they submit a ticket there, or use the online chat for support, the OSU Canvas team will be able to see that information.

If OCH and Instructure can’t help, we escalate to the OSU Canvas team: canvas.support@helpdesk.oregonstate.edu

When escalating, please include username, course/section number, and problem description.

 

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Call Center Digest, Friday 9/4/2015

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We have a lot of changes coming up and a lot of information to share. I will be doing a weekly digest from the call centers. If you want more details about any of the below, ping me!

Labor Day weekend maintenance for Banner, Banner Apps, MyOSU – OSU Banner and all Banner Apps, including MyOSU, will be down over the Labor Day weekend for maintenance.

Google logins, Google email addresses, and student UPNs changing 9/12/2015 – Everyone (students and employees) will start logging in to Google Apps as username@oregonstate.edu. Primary email addresses for Google will change to username@oregonstate.edu in Google and in OSU Online Services. The UPN for students will change to username@oregonstate.edu, and this will impact how students log in to Office 365. All of campus will be notified early next week.

More info about Google and UPN changes: http://oregonstate.edu/helpdocs/landing-page-students

OSU Cascades tech support changes 9/16/2015 – Starting mid-September, tech support calls and emails from OSU Cascades in Bend will be directed to OCH and CN call centers in Corvallis. Please be kind to the OSU Cascades folks!

RemoteApps being replaced by Citrix XenApp  – As of start of Fall term, the RemoteApps service will be redirecting to Citrix XenApp. This is the apps.oregonstate.edu service, previously run by College of Engineering, currently managed by IT Infrastructure.

Comcast Infinity (IP TV) coming to OSU Housing – University Housing & Dining is deploying IP TV this Fall term. Only students who live in the residence halls will be able to access the service, and only from on the campus network.

Canvas and TurnItIn integration – The Canvas team will be implementing a piracy prevention component called TurnItIn. This may result in some calls to OCH.

 

Office Moves:

OCH 5PM-7PM shift moving to Service Desk – The evening shift at the OCH call center will be moving downstairs to the Comms desk area at the Service Desk, sometime during Fall term (date TBD).

IS Client Services moving to Milne Computer Center in November – all ISCS employees in the Library will be moving to offices in the Milne Computer Center around November 2015. Exceptions: the Service Desk and Student Multimedia Services will stay in the Library.

 

Upcoming Events

Labor Day, September 7, OSU Closed – The university is closed on Monday. Don’t come to work!

Monday, September 14 – Grad Fair

Saturday, September 19 – Talk Like a Pirate Day

Sunday, September 20 – Housing Move-In Day – The OCH Call Center will be open for a few hours this day.

Monday, September 21 – University Day

Thursday, September 24 – Beaver Fair

Thursday, September 24 – First day of Fall term classes