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  • Increased Phishing Attempts Leading to Compromised Accounts

    Alison Scott | July 20, 2022
    The Ohio State University accounts are being targeting in an increasing number of phishing attempts. Bad actors who send these campaigns often try to get login credentials to gain access to account details, and thus Ohio State’s internal systems and protected information. Last month, there were more than 63,000 credential threat attempts targeting faculty, staff and student email inboxes. While t...

  • Workday Period Activity Pay Security Enhancements

    Richard Hunter | July 20, 2022
    As part of HR Optimization efforts, on Friday, July 15, enhancements were applied for Period Activity Pay (PAP) to assist with streamlining the business process for both Cost Center Managers and HR Consultants. The following enhancements were implemented:Expanded security to allow Cost Center Managers (CCM) ability to edit the Worktags on PAP. This will eliminate the need for Cost Center Man...

  • Next Round of Workstation Updates Begin July 22

    Sydney Kuehn | July 19, 2022
    This article applies to Managed IT partners. The next round of software updates is now available to install for OTDI-managed workstations via Software Center (for Windows PC) or Ohio State Application Self Service (for Mac).The IT Service Desk will remotely deploy these updates on Friday, July 22 which will require you to restart your machine and/or close applications.&n...

  • Tableau Server Fundamentals Training

    Richard Hunter | July 15, 2022
    The OTDI Tableau team is pleased to announce the launch of our first training, Tableau Server Fundamentals. This live, 45-minute zoom webinar is intended for anyone who accesses Tableau reports on the university’s server. At the end of training, attendees will learn how to navigate Tableau Server as well as how to set up subscriptions to regularly monitor data, create and save report paramet...

  • 9/12 Costing Allocation for August 

    Richard Hunter | July 9, 2022
    For the month of August, departments are charged for one half of the nine-month rate for their nine-month faculty. To properly expense August salary, best practice is to use the costing dates of 08/15/2022 to 08/31/2022. This will ensure that costing prorates properly for the half month of pay. Please refer to the Advanced Costing Allocations for 9/12 Faculty job aid in the Administrative Re...

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