Information Support Group
Welcome
Welcome to the web site for the School of ACME's Information Support Group (ISG). While this web site is currently under development at the moment you will soon find a range of information and services hosted here that relate to the infrastructure and support provided by the ISG.
ISG Notices Mailing List
ACME ISG is now running an opt-in mailing list to provide relevant IT notices to ACME staff and students. You should sign up to this list if you want to receive notices from the ISG about:
- Downtime with IT services, servers or software
- IT security advisories
- Information from software vendors for products used by ACME
- Other information about the IT services provided to ACME
Sign up to the mailing list from the ICTS mailing lists administration page.
- Enter your e-mail address.
- Click the "All" radio button.
- Click the "Go" button.
- Ensure the acme_isg_notices list is checked.
- Click the "Apply" button.
Please contact the ISG Service Desk if you need any help with this process.
News
27 June 2008
The latest update for Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac has been added to the Software and Downloads page.
26 June 2008
A new page has been added to the web site providing information about the computational server resources available to the school.
The IT Users Group page was updated to reflect the change in the nature of the group to the school IT Advisory Committee.
The ISG Support Hours guidelines were updated on the ISG Policy Page.
29 May 2008
Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update has been added to the Software and Downloads page.
14 May 2008
New Service Pack for MAC Office 2008 has been added to the Software and Downloads page.
2 May 2008
The latest update for Quicktime 7.4.5 has been added to the Software and Downloads page.
28 April 2008
New information has been added to the Information and Notices Page regarding Tecplot 360 licensing changes.
28 March 2008
New information has been added to the Information and Notices Page regarding Student Email and ADFAPass Password Reset System.
14 March 2008
New information has been added to the Information and Notices Page regarding Maple Licensing Update.
12 March 2008
New information has been added to the Information and Notices Page regarding Student Desktop Refresh, Classlists have been mail enabled and New Computational Server.
5 March 2008
New information has been added to Information and Notices Page regarding the new IT Purchasing Arrangements for UNSW@ADFA; ACME Information Support Group (ISG) Communications and New ANSYS Licence.
3 January 2008
The ISG Service Downtime policy has been updated with new dates listed for service downtime windows. You can find the updated document on the ISG Policy Page.
17 December 2007
The latest update for Quick Time 7.3.1 has been added to the Software and Downloads Page.
4 October 2007
New information has been added to the Help Information and Notices Page.
2 October 2007
The policy regarding the re-location or allocation of PCs and notebook computers was added to the ISG Policy Page.
21 August 2007
The policy regarding the rules for using the ACME PC Lab and other shared desktop computers has been added to the ISG Policy Page.
10 August 2007
New information has been added to the Help Information and Notices Page.
21 May 07
The latest patch for StarOffice 8 and new release of OpenOffice 2.2 have been added to the Software and Downloads Page.
14 May 07
New information has been added to the Help Information and Notices Page.
The latest patch for Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac has been added to the Software and Downloads page.
10 May 07
A series of WebEx Presentations from ANSYS about updates in ANSYS 11 have been added to the Software and Downloads page.
8 May 07
New information has been added to the Help Information and Notices Page.
3 May 07
The installation files for QuickTime 7.1.6 have been added to the Software and Downloads page.
2 May 07
UNSW@ADFA has a wireless network that Academics and Students can access using their laptop computers. It is called ADFAWide Wireless Network. To find out more information look at the ICTS web page ADFAWide - UNSW@ADFA Wireless Network
The document outlining the policy governing the connection of devices to the ACME network has been added to the ISG policy page.
30 Apr 07
New information has been added to the Help Information and Notices page.
26 Mar 07
StarOffice 8 has been added to the downloads page.
13 Mar 07
New information has been added to the Help Information and Notices page.
13 Nov 06
Some new downloads have been added over the past weeks including:
- Xcode 2.4.1
- MiKTeX
- Fedora Core 6 (x86)
20 Oct 06
New content has been added to the web site, there are two new sections:
- Software and Downloads
- Added Microsoft Internet Explorer 7
- Help Information and Notices
- Windows Updates
- ISG Web Site
- Wireless Network Access Point
Please use the links in the menu on the left to access this new information.
17 Oct 06
The web site was created. Sections have been added to provide some policy documents and the minutes from the IT Users Group meetings. A resources section has also been added to detail some of the IT resources made available by the ISG. The following items are now online:
- Minutes from the September IT Users Group meeting
- ISG Service Downtime Policy
- Details of the Sun Microsystems Online Courses that are available to the school
- ISG Operating Hours Policy