Ag IT Matters

April 17, 2025

The Penn State Wireless project is introducing "eduroam" as the primary Wi-Fi on campus and adding a new supplemental network, "psu-personal." Students, faculty and staff at all campuses are encouraged to connect all devices to the eduroam network before June 30.

December 8, 2023

Upgrading your mobile device? Avoid account access issues by making sure you have a second method of authenticating with 2FA before you upgrade.

August 11, 2023

A new feature will be added to your Outlook and Edge (Microsoft’s browser) to help streamline your Outlook and browser experience. Microsoft is helping you keep your email right there with you, during your browsing experience.

June 20, 2022

On June 22, 2022, the Penn State Learning Resource Network (LRN) will be transitioned to a new login experience.

June 8, 2022

Your Ag IT teams want to work with you throughout the entire lifecycle of your computer.

May 3, 2022

With the semester coming to an end, Ag IT would like to offer several IT-related reminders and considerations before diving into summer vacation season.

April 25, 2022

Ag IT has launched a new Computer Setup Request form on our website.

March 30, 2022

Over the upcoming weeks, Ag IT's Cyber Hygiene journey will focus on Ransomware.

March 9, 2022

Ag IT's Systems and Infrastructure Team Lead Roger Tharp is known throughout the Ag Community for his talent, dedication and hard work 'keeping the lights on' for our College, Extension offices and research centers. What the Ag Community may not know is that Roger similarly devotes dedication, time and talent to THON - the largest student-run philanthropy in the world.

March 4, 2022

Through our partnership with Penn State’s Office of Information Security (OIS), Ag IT would like to remind the Ag Community to continue practicing good cyber hygiene to keep our accounts and technology safe and secure. Recent history has demonstrated that cyber-attacks are more likely to occur when global conflict exists and maintaining a heightened level of awareness is more important now than ever.

February 4, 2022

Regularly restarting our computers is a foundational component of good cyber hygiene. However, restarting is something that is often an “I’ll do that later” task. Ag IT recommends restarting your computers at the end of every work week and we want to help make remembering to do it as easy as possible.

February 1, 2022

Ag IT is embarking on a Cyber Hygiene journey, and we ask that you join us! Through this partnership, we will create and sustain a more secure computing environment within our College. Following is a high-level overview of our campaign to improve cyber hygiene in 2022.

October 11, 2021

Ag IT staff often have opportunities to work innovative technology with faculty, researchers, educators and staff in our College. Today we highlight the work IT Consultant Jill Paige and Systems Administrator Travis Waltz are undertaking to assist researchers store and share photos taken on Raspberry Pis.

June 4, 2021

Darren Clapper, Ag IT Systems Administrator, put pen to paper recently to provide a personal account of technological improvements and advancements made in recent years at the Ag Progress Days site.

April 19, 2021

Spring is in the air (mostly) and your summer helpers/ interns will soon be arriving to your County offices. With advanced planning, you can best be assured that your interns and program assistants will be able to use the computers and other IT resources on their start date or soon after.

March 8, 2021

In response to recent security breaches in Zoom meetings, the Penn State Zoom team has prepared specific guidance on what we can do before and during meetings to prevent unwanted guests from joining and mitigate disruptions if they occur. Zoom security is critical and it will take our collective actions to protect ourselves from these unwarranted attacks on members of our University Community.