by Kwadwo Yeboah | Aug 10, 2021 | Computer, Email & Internet, Security, Tips
Password Changes Vanier College’s updated password policy will go into effect on 18th August 2021 for all employees. Government mandated cybersecurity standards now require a stronger password format and obliges the College to ensure that you change your password...
by Kwadwo Yeboah | Aug 10, 2021 | Computer, Email & Internet, Security, Uncategorized
Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a security technology that requires multiple methods of authentication from independent categories of credentials to verify a user’s identity for a login or other transaction. The goal of MFA is to...
by Charles Hall | Sep 30, 2015 | Announcements, Email & Internet, Security, Tips
Your VanierPass is your universal access credential for virtually all digital services that you use at the College. These include: Vanier email Omnivox Portal VPN Computer login Printers Wi-Fi Network Drives Your VanierPass is the part of your email address before...
by Charles Hall | Dec 16, 2014 | Computer, Email & Internet
Microsoft’s Clip Art, long a staple of presentations from the classroom to board rooms, is finally at its end, joining the ranks of Clippy, Geocities, and the abacus. Those sometimes-peculiar yet familiar images that the earliest memories of PowerPoint and Word...
by Charles Hall | May 6, 2014 | Computer, Email & Internet, Security
Internet privacy is an especially hot topic these days, between surveillance programs, social network tracking, and the Heartbleed SSL bug. While websites are getting more secure, hackers themselves are also smarter than before. In 2005, 1.6 million identity theft...
by Charles Hall | May 3, 2014 | Email & Internet
If you’re leaving your Vanier email, you have the option to take your contacts with you, by transferring them to another provider, such as Gmail. You can export your Outlook contacts to Google Gmail by following these steps: In Outlook, on the File menu,...
