IT Service of the Month: File Collaboration

Each month, the Division of IT hi-lights a service. This month, we feature a new service- File Collaboration. The Division of IT has recently completed the move of WCU faculty/staff email to Office 365, a Microsoft cloud hosting solution.   Now that your WCU email...

IT Service of the Month: Institutional Computer Purchases

Each month, the Division of IT hi-lights a service provided to the campus. This month’s service is: Institutional Computer Purchases Western Carolina University is required to participate in the UNC General Administration (UNC-GA) Combined Pricing Initiative (CPI) for...

WCU Faculty/Staff Email Blocks Executable Files

To prevent the spread of malicious software, WCU’s implementation of Exchange Online Protection (EOP) blocks emails that have files with executable content as attachments. Examples of file types that would be blocked are .exe, .dll and .bat files. This block...

Recent Email Phishing Scams

Email messages from compromised WCU faculty/staff accounts have recently been making the rounds, and these new phishing scams have affected WCU faculty, staff and students. In the most recent event which occurred on Thursday, March 5, the problem caused all on-campus...