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With the successful migration of the University email systems for students and alumni from the on-premises systems to Microsoft Office 365 Exchange Online (“O365” is Microsoft’s cloud solution for educational institutions) in 2013, the Information Strategy and Governance Committee (ISGC) of the ...
The new email system for students, supported by the cloud messaging solution, Microsoft Office 365 Exchange Online (hereafter referred to as Office 365 or O365), has been launched since 29 January 2013. When CityU students graduate, they can carry on using the same email addresses and accounts as ...
The CityUWiki was first introduced in June 2008. It is a document management and collaboration platform based on Microsoft SharePoint 2010. The usage of CityUWiki grew from 10 sites initially to over 100 sites as of today. It supports various departments, committees and project teams for closed ...
To exploit the cloud computing technologies, CityU has decided to adopt the Microsoft Office 365 (Office 365 hereafter) for Education. Office 365 is the cloud computing solution offered by the Microsoft for academic institutions. As an initial step, the Computing Services Centre (CSC) will replace ...
According to our past experience, more than 50% of incoming emails are possibly spam in nature. These emails not only waste our system resources, but also cause delay of normal email delivery. Users would be annoyed, and even worse, they have to take security risk when opening the message or the ...
The new CityVoD ( ref: http://www6.cityu.edu.hk/cityvod/) was launched in November last year. Its interface not only changed to allow users to use mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone 7 to navigate and watch videos but the underlying technology of the service also enhanced ...
The Sun Java System Messaging Server (JSMS) has been used as the staff email server for many years. It can no longer satisfy today’s communication needs for advanced features such as calendar and appointment scheduling, cooperate phone book, task and reminders, anywhere anytime access via web ...
As a protection for all University email users, the Committee on Information Services and Technology (CIST) endorsed in its meeting in August 2010 to enable email spam filtering as a default for all CityU email users, and it was implemented on staff, student and alumni email systems on 21 December ...
The Committee on Information Services and Technology (CIST) has approved to adopt the Microsoft Exchange Server (Exchange) as the standard University email server for staff, and will phase out the current Sun Java System Messaging Server (JSMS) which is an old technology and must be replaced ...
The Exchange System is more than an email system. It is an enhanced, integrated and unified messaging system that provides Email, Calendar, Scheduling, Resource Booking, Contacts (Address Books), Tasks, Notes, etc. on an integrated and unified platform. Thus, data and services can easily be accessed ...