IMPORTANT! Please change your eduBuzz WordPress password

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Aug 252011
 

To help protect eduBuzz from malware, can you please change your eduBuzz WordPress password?

Once you’re logged in, click your name in the top right (where it says “Howdy”, choose “Your Profile” and you’ll see the Password option.

In recent days many WordPress sites worldwide, including eduBuzz,  have been affected by malware. This has been behind some of the strange behaviour you may have noticed.

Although the malware infection has now been removed, it’s possible your password could have become known to others. Changing all user passwords in this situation is regarded as essential.

FeedBlitz subscription service: update failures

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May 162011
 

Message currently displayed in FeedBlitz Dashboard

The FeedBlitz service we currently use to provide email (and other) updates to eduBuzz blog subscribers is currently failing to send updates.

This is because Feedblitz have chosen to suspend the sending of updates to encourage us to pay their renewal fee, which they are  entitled to do.

The trouble is that the renewal fee Feedblitz are requesting for payment ($359.40), is approximately double the amount specified at the renewal date ($179.76), which we missed due to lack of a reminder email.

We emailed FeedBlitz last week to ask for this to be resolved, but have had no response from them yet. They do say on their site that they receive a lot of spam email, so we are trying again today, using both their support and general enquiry email addresses.

We apologise for this interruption to the service. If you just want to offer an email subscription service, you may wish to consider investigating the following plugins:

Notifly
Sends an email to the addresses of your choice when a new post or comment is made. Add email addresses in your Discussion Settings area.

Subscribe2
Notifies an email list when new entries are posted.

Interruption of schools network services, 21st to 25th October

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Oct 132010
 

This is a reminder about some IT work that will affect schools next week, received today from our colleagues in IT.

The main server room in John Muir House is having its floor replaced and this will involve major disruption of some central services for schools – internet, email and the Education Exchange. We are taking this opportunity to upgrade the school email system from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. The disruption will last from Thursday 21st October to Sunday 25th October.

As part of the upgrade you will see a new version of Outlook Web Access (OWA), this is the program that most staff use. It is listed as Staff Email System within Internet Explorer Favourites.

We apologise for any inconvenience this causes.

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