There are now three distribution lists for mass mailings that can be found in the Outlook Addressbook Faculty under both the Global Listing and the Faculty & Staff listing:

·         _CL_UHCL_BENEFITS_ELIGIBLE_EMPLOYEES – This new DL contains the names of all employees at UHCL that are “benefits eligible”.  It does not include adjunct faculty, temporary staff, or student workers.  This list is maintained by Joanne Slovacek, Office of Human Resources.

·         _CL_UHCL_EMPLOYEES – Includes ALL employees that have an e-mail address on the UHCL domain—which means not only everyone on the above list, but also student workers, adjuncts, temporary or part-time employees, and retirees.  This list is a system generated list.  It is automatically updated whenever new accounts are created or deleted on the UHCL domain.

·         _CL_UHCL_FACULTY – Contains only full-time faculty.  It does not include adjunct faculty.  This list is maintained by Charise Armstrong in the Provost’s Office.

There is no distribution list for students due to the large number and the fluid nature of student accounts, Student accounts automatically expire, but are not deleted if the student graduates or if they sit out a semester.  Accounts are reinstated once the student enrolls again.  For that reason, student accounts are not immediately deleted since some may return  to UHCL.   

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Custom Guide Incorporated offers Free Microsoft Quick Reference Guides that you can download as well as online training on Microsoft products.  If you don't have the time to go to an instructor-led class, try one of their free online classes in Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint,  Word, and more.   There's even a class in computer basics and the Macintosh operating system.

Go to the Custom Guides site to see what they have to offer.

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Malware on Apple Macs continues to be nothing like as commonly encountered as on Windows computers - but that doesn't mean Mac users are completely immune from threats.  Find out how a new email worm affecting the Mac platform caused a stir, but presents little threat in the real world.
http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/05/05/lame-email-worm-mac

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An academic study has discovered that over a third of all resold hard drives contain personal data, including bank account and medical information that could be exploited for the purposes of identity theft. In addition, details of test launch procedures for a ground-to-air missile defence system was found on a disk purchased on eBay. Learn more about the danger of allowing data to leak from your organization when you throw away old hardware.
http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/05/07/34-sold-hard-drives

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Sophos has intercepted a widespread attack, initiated by hackers, designed to infect computers with a Trojan horse posing as a communication from Western Union. Learn more about the threat, and what you need to know in order to protect your computer.
http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/05/11/open-western-union

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If you are one of the world's many users of Adobe's Acrobat PDF Reader software then you cannot afford to ignore this.  An unpatched critical zero-day vulnerability in Adobe's software could allow hackers to run malicious code on your computer. Learn more about what steps you should take to better secure your systems now.
http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/04/29/alarm-raised-adobe-pdf

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UH-Clear Lake broadcast its first live stream of the commencement ceremony on May 16^th.  This opportunity afforded the friends and family of UHCL graduates the luxury of watching the commencement ceremony from the comfort of their home.   Given the limited seating in Reliant Arena, students were asked to limit the number of guests they invited.  In some cases international families could forgo the expensive costs associated with travel and proudly watch the graduation of their favorite loved one.  The live stream was a success.   Just, look at the numbers.

·         981 unique visitors

·         293 simultaneous views

·         1646  total views

·         6.3%  of the total audience were International,  including 1.5% from India, .77% from Australia and .66% from the United Arab Emirates

University Computing and Telecommunications extends its appreciation to the following individuals (in alphabetical order).