Category Archive: General CNSIT

By Ross Madden
July 7, 2023 4:13 pm MT
Posted in Backups, General CNSIT, Knowledge Base, The Cloud

Network Attached Storage (NAS) is an inexpensive way to provide shared mass (local-ish) storage to your group. However, without these devices backed up, they are little better than the hard drive disk arrays you might have in a desktop computer. Fortunately, many NAS manufacturers now have the ability to synchronize and backup your NAS data […]

By Ross Madden
May 17, 2023 9:43 am MT
Posted in General CNSIT, Printing

General Information Model: HP Designjet T795Location: CNS Undergraduate Computer Lab Biology 126Paper: Roll of 36″ HP Plain Paper Poster File Preparation and Requirements Before you attempt to print be sure that your poster file meets the following requirements. 1.) Your poster file must be in the PDF file format.2.) The paper roll is only 36″ […]

By Evan Campbell
May 5, 2023 9:00 am MT
Posted in General CNSIT, Tips and Tricks, Windows

If you’re off campus and notice that your computer is not receiving updates for Windows or if software that should be available to you is not listed in Software Center these instructions will refresh Software Center allowing you to install the updates or software. In the windows search bar type “disk cleanup” and launch the […]

By Ross Madden
February 20, 2023 1:22 pm MT
Posted in General CNSIT, Windows

Once again, we are on the precipice of an Windows operating system upgrade spree. Windows 10 officially loses support by Microsoft in October of 2025. Our goal is to be able to upgrade all possible computers by well before this. Windows 11 Hardware Requirements Microsoft has an official list of all hardware requirements here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-specifications?r=1 […]

By Ross Madden
December 14, 2022 9:42 am MT
Posted in General CNSIT, Knowledge Base

This article is taken/adapted from the following – content reproduced here for posterity: https://www.networkworld.com/article/3618998/using-gimp-to-modify-pdf-files.html Gimp can do everything from resizing and cropping images to adding text, changing colors or distorting images in artistic ways. You can use it to draw with its pencil or paintbrush and layer additional images. It’s quite a versatile tool. Yet […]

By Ross Madden
November 2, 2022 11:46 am MT
Posted in General CNSIT, Windows

Deploying software in the modern age has become very convenient. This is especially true as more of the work force is remote and unable to physically meet with CNSIT staff for required software installations. For machines managed by CNSIT we will be using the Software Center for software deployments as well as OS upgrades and […]

By Evan Campbell
July 7, 2022 11:49 am MT
Posted in E-mail, General CNSIT, Knowledge Base, Security News

Microsoft has created a new feature in Outlook that allows you to report emails as either spam or phishing without having to forward them to the Division of IT. This article will show you how to use this new feature in both the Outlook client as well as the M365 portal version of Outlook for […]

By Aaron Vanasse
June 16, 2022 10:38 am MT
Posted in Apple, Calendars, Featured, General CNSIT, General Computing, Knowledge Base, Tips and Tricks, Uncategorized, Windows

Open a browser and in the address bar at the top type portal.office.com Login to the Microsoft Office365 portal with your eid/netid email and eid/netid password Once you are logged in to the portal, on the left side of the page, select the Outlook icon Select the Calendar Icon in the top left of the page […]

By Aaron Vanasse
June 14, 2022 1:57 pm MT
Posted in Calendars, Featured, General CNSIT, General Computing, Knowledge Base, Uncategorized

Open a browser and in the address bar at the top type portal.office.com Login to the Microsoft Office365 portal with your eid/netid email and eid/netid password Once you are logged in to the portal, on the left side of the page, select the Outlook icon Select the calendar icon in the top left of the […]

By Aaron Vanasse
June 10, 2022 10:53 am MT
Posted in Calendars, General CNSIT, General Computing, Knowledge Base, Tips and Tricks

Before we begin, add the room calendar you’d like to reserve to your Outlook. The directions to do so are here: https://cnsit.colostate.edu/kb/adding-shared-calendar-to-outlook-calendars Click Calendar view in the bottom left of your Outlook client Having added the calendar to Outlook, tick the box next to the room calendar you have added. In a moment you will […]

Back to top of page