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  • Buckeye Buy Catering Orders for Columbus Campus

    Richard Hunter | October 27, 2022
    Buckeye Buy catering orders for Columbus campus events must be placed through the Catering Marketplace. The Catering Marketplace is a multi-supplier round trip catalog of drop-off and full-service caterers and event equipment rental suppliers.See the Catering Marketplace user guide for supplier search and order entry tips. Please note that full-service caterers and event rental suppliers require ...

  • Audio-Conferencing Vendor Discontinuing Service

    Bethany Varcho | October 25, 2022
    The provider of our audio-conferencing service, a phone-based meeting tool we have offered for several years, is discontinuing the service on Monday, Oct. 31. If you use this service, OTDI recommends that you re-schedule any upcoming meetings for which you planned to use the service before Monday, Oct. 31.Fortunately, Ohio State has other services that active employees can use as alternatives. We...

  • Accessible Entrances, Wellness Spaces Now Available via Ohio State App

    Anne Furia | October 24, 2022
    With the tap of a button, users can now view accessible entrances and wellness spaces on the Columbus campus map via the Ohio State app. Thanks to the Office of Technology and Digital Innovation (OTDI) and Facilities Information and Technology Services (FITS), these new resources will help create a more accessible campus travel experience. The project is one that Jonathan Reed, a mobil...

  • University Wi-Fi: Behind the Scenes

    Max Wolfe | October 18, 2022
    Have you ever wondered how Ohio State’s Wi-Fi can stay connected to your phone while you’re walking from one end of our 1,600 acre campus to the other? Access points (APs) across the university initiate all roaming decisions. With more than 20,000 APs, our Internet’s infrastructure is basically like its own city, and just like Columbus, these digital “roads” and “sidewalks” need consistent update...

  • Next Round of Workstation Updates Begin Oct. 18

    Sydney Kuehn | October 18, 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, October 21 which will require you to restart your machine and/or close applications.&nbsp...

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