? As mentioned in the previous article (item 3 in Ref: Network Computing Issue 85 - September 2015), the first phase of desktop virtualization using Citrix Provisioning Service (PVS) had been implemented in selected teaching venues (a few lecture theatres, classrooms and CSC teaching studios) for ...

? The CityU central web servers (www.ncm2.xyz and www6.cityu.edu.hk) are load-balanced web farms, which provide high availability services to the communities. In case any server instance of a web farm is unavailable (due to errors or maintenance), other server instances of the same web farm can ...

? The Policy Concept Windows policy, better known as Group Policy, is a feature of all Microsoft Windows operating systems (…Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10…) that controls the working environment and behaviour of a system. For example, a policy setting that allows or disallows remote access to ...

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ ? According to a study conducted by IBM in 2012, it costs an organization US$80 per defect if vulnerabilities are identified early during the development stage, but the cost ...

What are public, private and hybrid clouds? Public clouds are services based on the standard cloud computing technology to provide flexible and on-demand computing and network resources to the general public over the internet. A public cloud deployment model is different from a private network ...

? The new school year has just commenced and the Computing Services Centre (CSC) would like to take this opportunity to introduce the Virtual Desktop Service (VDS) to new students and provide a brief update on the enhancements made on the VDS during the course of the year. The CSC had launched the ...

? Some hardware and software in the CSC Teaching Studios have been upgraded this summer: PC Hardware Half of the CSC Teaching Studios, around 500 PCs, have been upgraded to newer hardware as described in the table below. By using the Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS), these PCs have been configured ...

? CityU is collaborating with various organisations and wireless service providers (WSP) to provide free Wi-Fi services for all CityU staff and students outside the CityU campus. Hotspot locations span over 70 countries world-wide. When you visit any one of these hotspots and provided your Wi-Fi ...

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ ? “Successful businesses understand the value of timely, accurate information, good communications and secrecy. Information security is as much about exploiting the opportunities ...

As mentioned in the March issue, the Computing Services Centre (CSC) will make Windows 10 available on CSC-managed computers for teaching and learning starting Semester A 2016-17. In the meantime, the Central IT is testing Windows 10 compatibility with all in-house developed central applications ...