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Contents: April, 2006 |
Information Technology Newsletter
an information resource for the University
of Minnesota
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| Transforming education: May 3 TEL Seminar.
Using digital teaching tools to motivate students and
facilitate learning. Going beyond information delivery to put digital
cognitive tools into the hands of students: tools that enable them to create, explore, and innovate.
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Fusion technology - prior
to Oracle and PeopleSoft's merger, both were pursuing approaches to their next
generation applications and platforms.
OIT contributes to nationally recognized whitepaper published by the Higher Education Users Group's (HEUG) Technical Advisory Group.
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Password security changes
When you access your personalized Internet
Account Options page and select the change Internet or
Enterprise passwords options, you will see that there are
new requirements.
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Did you know about these changes?
Enterprise passwords must:
- Not contain all or any 3 character part of the
user's account name.
- Contain characters from three of the following
four categories:
- English uppercase letters
(A through Z)
- English lowercase letters
(a through z)
- Digits (0 through 9)
- Non-alphanumeric characters (for example : , !, #, %)
- Be from 8 to 128
characters in length.
- Not end in a space, although they may
contain spaces (e.g. '3 Brown mice').
- Not be the same as your Internet (x.500) password.
- Not match any of the last three Enterprise
passwords you set.
There have been similar changes for Internet (X.500) passwords. See "Password Security Changes" in this issue.
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