Tying Up Loose Ends

A Checklist for Faculty & Staff

[Nov 23, 2009 14:09] Web access to Microsoft Live@edu accounts now works.

If you are preparing to leave the University, and will not be returning, you need to decide what you want to do with your computer-related activities - your electronic mail access and messages, your home page, the mailing lists to which you belong, the data that you have used. This is a guide for employees, both staff and faculty, to use in planning what needs to be done and how to do it.

What UVa Computing Resources May I Use After I Leave?

Computing resources at the University of Virginia are available for use by current staff, faculty and students. When you leave the University, you no longer have a right to use any University computing facilities.

After leaving the University, you should no longer use:

  • computers in the public facilities,
  • any computing accounts that were provided to you while you were a member of this community,
  • software that is provided to members of this community.

When will my UVa Computing ID expire?

Staff accounts are deleted when the staff member leaves the service of the University.

My account is not on an ITC computer, it is on a departmental computer. When will it expire?

You need to check with the system administrator of the departmental computer to learn when the department will cleanup your account.

I have files that have been used by my office on my account. May my account stay open so that my replacement can use these files?

Accounts are assigned to individuals and you should not allow anyone else, including your replacement, to have access to your account. Before you leave, you need to transfer these files to your supervisor's or manager's account for safekeeping until your replacement arrives.

Note: Arrangements should be made to have another person in the department recreate such meetings in an active agenda before removing any meetings that were created in the agenda of the person who is leaving that extend beyond their departure date. This will insure that meetings are not inadvertently deleted from others' agendas when your expired calendaring account is deleted.

I have files stored on UVa computers that I want to keep. What should I do?

BEFORE your account at UVa expires, you need to move your files to your own storage. You can move the files to your own account on another Internet Service Provider or to portable storage media like:

  • the hard disk of your own computer
  • ZIP disks
  • CDs

You should be aware that transferring files between different types of computers (UNIX systems, local PCs/Macs) can be a challenge at times. If you have not done this before, you may want to contact the ITC Help Desk for help in planning how to transfer your files and learning what will be required.

What will happen to my Web page?

Since your Web page consists of one or more files on your account, when the account expires, your Web page will no longer exist. If you want to continue to maintain a presence on the Web, you will need to make arrangements with an Internet Service Provider for this capability.

What will happen to my electronic mail messages and aliases?

All messages, aliases, etc. on an account are removed from the system when the account expires and you will no longer have access to them. You need to move them BEFORE the account expires. You need to notify your correspondents of your new address BEFORE your account expires: messages that are delivered after your account expires will be returned to their sender with a 'user unknown' message.

I have software that I have received because of my affiliation with UVa. May I continue to use it elsewhere?

When you leave the University, you must delete and destroy any software that you have received under a University site license or volume purchase agreement. Using this software after you leave the University is a violation of our software licenses. This restricted licensed software includes, but is not limited to statistical and mathematical programs such as SPSS and MatLab, and others.

Software you got from the ITC Research Computing Support Center (RCSC) such as SPSS, SAS, Matlab, or Mathematica requires an additional step beyond deleting if off your hard drive. You must also notify ITC that you're leaving UVa and have removed the software from your computer and destroyed the installation CDs. The easiest way to notify ITC that you've removed the software is to go to the ITC software licensing/registration database at http://web.virginia.edu/rescomp/.

Login with your University ID (Social Security number) and last name and then highlight the software you're deleting in the window on the left and select highlight "Delete Selected License" in the right side window and click submit. Repeat this procedure for all software you have registered in this database. These are the conditions of use to which you agreed when you received the software. After you leave Charlottesville, continuing to use software you received while at the University of Virginia violates our vendor agreements and not only puts you at risk for lawsuits but endangers our University-wide agreements. We have lost the ability to distribute software from some vendors because of such violations in the past, so your actions can have a detrimental effect on thousands of University faculty, staff and students. Please help us by deleting all UVa software before you leave!

The only software that you can take away from UVa is software for which you have purchased a legal and complete license. For instance, if you bought the retail version of software from Cavalier Computers or another software vendor, that license is yours, and you may take it with you.

If you have any questions about software that you have received while at UVa, please send email to itc-swlicense@virginia.edu.

How do I find another Internet Service Provider?

There are many commercial Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Some are national, some are local. You should check the local newspapers, civic and business web pages, telephone directories, Chambers of Commerce, and libraries for information about the ISPs in the area in which you will be living. Then, if you have the option, do some comparison shopping. Among the questions you may want to ask are:

  • Does the ISP provide software and require its use? If the ISP provides the software, what type of computer system is required? If the ISP provides the software, how is it obtained? If it does not, how do you access the ISP?
  • What type of help is available for problems with installation or connections? Does the ISP provide other assistance, and, if so, is it via e-mail or telephone and what are its hours?
  • What are the costs? Do rates vary with time-of-day usage? Are there optional plans to cover special needs?
  • Will the ISP allow storage of Web pages? Does the ISP provide 24-hour access to others to the stored Web pages? How is updating of the pages accomplished? Does the ISP act as an editor for Web pages at this site?
  • Is there an access limit (cumulative time that may be used per billing period/cumulative time that may be used per session)? If so, what is it? Is there a warning when this limit is exceeded? What happens if the limit is exceeded?
  • Is there a limit on how much disk space can be used? If so, what is it? What happens if the limit is exceeded? Is there a warning when the limit is exceeded?
  • Is there a fee that will provide a higher limit on disk space and/or access time? If so, what is the limit and its cost?
  • Can the ISP be used outside the local calling area?
  • How many times do customers experience busy signals?
  • What is the normal connection speed offered?

This is not an exhaustive list of questions. You should think of others that will help you find the service you need.

I own a mailing list that is here at UVa. What will happen to it?

Mailing lists need to be owned by current members of the UVa community. You will need to find someone here to assume ownership of the list. After you have found someone, login to the administrator web page for your list to remove yourself as administrator and add the email address of the new administrator of the list.

I subscribe to one or more mailing lists. What should I do about this?

Instructions on how to remove yourself from either a Mailman or a listserv mailing list appear after this text. When you have established an account with an Internet Service Provider, you can subscribe to those lists in which you are interested again. If you have moved or have been moved from one computer at UVa to another, you may need to use a special tool to unsubscribe from the lists of which you are a member.

Note: There are other types of lists. If you need help in unsubscribing, contact the postmaster at the site where the list originates.

Mailman lists

To unsubscribe from a mailman mailing list, visit the member options page:

http://list.mail.virginia.edu/mailman/options/list_name/yourUVaEmailAddress

where list_name is the the name of the list and yourUVaEmailAddress is your email address as it is subscribed to the list,

and click the Unsubscribe button.

You will receive a response from the automated mailman system asking you to follow certain steps to confirm your unsubscribe request.

If this does not work, you can contact the list owner for assistance by writing to:

listname-owner@virginia.ed

For example, if the list is named tjinfo and originates at virginia.edu , you would address the message to:

tjinfo-owner@Virginia.edu

Listserv

To unsubscribe from a listserv mailing list, send an electronic mail message to:

listserv@list.site

where list.site is the place where the list originates

For example, there are listserv lists at site brownvm.brown.edu , so if your list originates at this site, you would address your message to:

listserv@brownvm.brown.edu

with the message text:

signoff listname

where listname is the name of the listserv list you want to leave

For example, if the list is named tjinfo and originates at brownvm.brown.edu, you would address the message to:

listserv@brownvm.brown.edu

and the message text would be:

signoff tjinfo

You should receive a response from the automated listserv system about the success/failure of this process.

Note:

this will work only if you are signing off from the same electronic mail account that you used originally to subscribe to the list. If this does not work, you can contact the list owner for assistance by sending an electronic mail message to:

listname-request@list.site

where listname is the name of the list where the list originates

For example, if the list is named tjinfo and originates at brownvm.brown.edu, you would address the message to:

tjinfo-request@brownvm.brown.edu

If these processes do not work, contact the postmaster at the site where the list originates and ask for help. For example, if the list originates at brownvm.brown.edu, you would address your message to:

postmaster@brownvm.brown.edu

I'm not certain how to begin doing all this. Where may I obtain help?

Remember

ITC resources are limited and are intended primarily for current staff, faculty and students of the University of Virginia. Please use the help we can offer while it is still available to you.

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