IT Services

IT Services provides computing services and support for the University’s academic and business activities.

IT Support for

Staff

Information about the services you rely on to undertake your departmental activities, including quotas, SITS, SAP, Plone and Teaching Room Support.

Students

Information to help you use the University's IT facilities, including Blackboard, printing, email and filestore, as well as guidance on viruses, passwords and other common activities.

Core Services

Communicating & Collaborating

Support for your communications needs, including telephony and email

Corporate Business Activities

Support for the administration of the University

Supporting Your Desktop

Help with your desktop hardware and software

Supporting Teaching & Learning

The delivery of teaching resources

Supporting Research

Provision of data management systems and services

All Services

Urgent Announcements

Virus Warning for Windows Vista Users.

University of Leicester Windows XP CFS PCs are not thought to be affected.

News & What's New

Old version of 'NX' being withdrawn - 8 February

An older version of the 'NX' application (3.3.0-6), used to connect to ULTRA and similar services, is being withdrawn. A newer replacement version (3.4.0-5) is already available for use.

SITS unavailable - Tuesday 9 February 9am

Next Tuesday, IT Services will be performing an upgrade to the Student Records Service (SITS). This will start at 9am and take most of the day. Whilst this work takes place, SITS and related applications (e-Vision, online registration and applications) will be unavailable.

Work affecting the email service during February 2010

We need to apply an important update to the University email (Microsoft Exchange) service during February. Disruption is being kept to a minimum but there will be a limited number of short (few minutes) disruptions on the 18, 23 and 25 of February.