Entries by Bob Martens

Sharing Digital Financial Documents

Greetings everyone! With tax season winding down, but financial aid season winding up, it is important to keep a few things in mind when it comes to the sharing of digital financial documents, or any sensitive documents. Email is not a safe way to share sensitive digital documents, including financial documents (e.g. W2s, tax returns, […]

Nuvera Internet Upgrade Update

Greetings MLC campus family! It has been a number of weeks since I was able to update you on the progress being made for switching from XFINITY/Comcast to Nuvera as our campus’s internet service provider. In that time, while some progress has been made, we have not been able to make the switch over to […]

The Google Chat transition has begun!

This morning our G Suite domain was switched over to prefer Google Chat over Classic Hangouts. The transition could take up to 24 hours to complete, but during that time Gmail will switch over to use Google Chat as its chat service, you will need to use Google Chat on your mobile devices, and you […]

Moving from Classic Hangouts to Google Chat

Starting August 3, 2020 we will be moving our Google text chatting experience from the classic Google Hangouts to Google Chat. Google Chat is Google’s latest organization-grade messaging and collaboration platform that is similar to Microsoft Teams, Slack, or other team chat platforms. It integrates with many of Google’s other G Suite services (including Meet […]

Filr 4.2 Web Client Tour

Last night’s Filr 4.2 upgrade went smoothly so this quick video tour was put together so that you can take a look at the changes. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please reach out to MLC Network Services at https://mlc-wels.edu/support. Thanks!

Filr 4.2 Upgrade Coming June 3

Greetings! Micro Focus Filr enables those who are working away from campus to have access to campus file services through a web browser, desktop application, or mobile application. Micro Focus recently released an updated version of Filr and we are planning on upgrading to that version on June 3, 2020. The upgrade should not take […]