News, Articles, and Safety Warnings

2 May

Changing the Default Document Sharing Settings Will Help Protect Sensitive Documents

With regard to better security and control of document owners over the content, the default setting for sharing documents in Microsoft 365 tools was changed on Tuesday, May 2. The new default option is "People you choose", when you specify specific users or (including external) group to share a document or folder.

20 Mar

The Large-Format Printing Service in UCC Is Cancelled. The Plotter Went to the Silicon Heaven

Employees and students can no longer use Large-Format Printing in the University Computer Centre (UCC). The covid period caused low demand for this service, which was reflected in the higher costs of its operation.

1 Mar

Digitization of Cards: How e-wallet Could Make Your Life Easier

Many of us know the situation when we carry around an overfilled wallet with many cards, which are needed when proving our identity, age, gym membership or library access. However, even that might not be enough when we visit a bureau – you should have the proof of being a student, a secondary education certificate and many similar things printed out on paper and physically with you. The revolution in this area might come with technology under the name Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI), which could enable digitalizing your student card and even your university diploma. To find out if such technology makes sense in the academic environment, we are looking for respondents for our survey.

1 Feb

Webinar on Useful News and Recommendations in Microsoft 365

Are you interested what's new in Microsoft 365? Want to learn helpful tips and tricks in Teams, Outlook, Stream, and other apps? We have prepared a webinar for Thursday, February 9 from 1:00 p.m. about the news in the most used tools from Microsoft.

23 Jan

January News in Microsoft 365

Teams and Whiteboard apps add new functions for online collaboration and meetings, Outlook offers a smart way to let others know when is the best time for a consultation or work meeting for you. Learn more about the Microsoft 365 news in our overview!​​

Safely to 2023

Enter the new year safely. The Cybersecurity Team of Masaryk University prepared ten resolutions for you that will help you to take better care of yourself in cyberspace.

15 Dec 2022

Planned Short-Term Outage of IT Services

A short-term network outage is planned for Wednesday, 21 December 2022, between 20:00 and 22:00. Some IT services and systems may be unavailable during this time. The expected downtime of individual services is up to several seconds.

1 Dec 2022

Help Us to Improve Training on M365 Tools according to Your Needs

Aren't you comfortable with existing training, or do you need to know what M365 tools could help you with? Please fill out the questionnaire about your experience with Microsoft 365 apps and let us know what suits you and what you would change. Your feedback will help us prepare training and other study materials tailored to your needs. The questionnaire is completely anonymous and will take you no more than 4 minutes to complete.

8 Nov 2022

What News did November Bring to Office 365 Applications?

For the second half of the semester, we have prepared another autumn news in Microsoft Office 365 applications. This time we will introduce how to collaborate in Whiteboard better, what functions the new Stream has, and why Office 365 will no longer be called Office.