Durham Academy Office of Information Technology

Are You Backed Up?

Lets face it – Laptops fail. They are often tossed around and take some abuse. Although I am sure everyone takes great care of their…

Keeping Passwords Safe

So every website you visit has different password requirements. One site requires an minimum of eight characters, while another is 15. Some require special characters,…

Reclaiming Disk Space on Your Mac

So your disk space is running low and you so desperately want to update your computer to High Sierra… Here are some quick tips for…

Mattermost

For the FRC Robotics team we have been using Mattermost to communicate with the team. This is our second year running Mattermost and the tool…

Lock Screen

Here is a quick and easy security tip you can use once your laptop is upgraded to High Sierra, Mac OS 10.13: under the Apple…

High Sierra is Here!

The latest MacOS operating system High Sierra (10.13.3) has been made available to you through Self-Service. To update, just login to Self-Service and click the…

High Sierra is Coming Soon!

Over the next few days we will be wrapping up our testing of the latest Mac OS operating system, High Sierra. We feel that 10.13.3…

Automatic Updates for MacOS

Meltdown, Spectre, Heartbleed, Shellshock, High Sierra’s Root Access! It seems like every week there is a new security risk in the news. We want to…

Update Wednesday!

Today is full of updates for those of you on a Mac Laptop. The following software was automatically updated on all DA owned Mac’s today.…

NoMAD

We have decided to deploy a new software program to your laptop named NoMAD. This utility will offer improvements to how you change your password.…