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The Environmental Studies Program has partnered with听CU听Boulder's Office of Information Technology (OIT) department to provide faculty and staff with听听in order to meet our IT听needs.听

Buffs Tech Support

Buffs Tech Support provides faculty, staff, and students support for their personal or university-owned equipment.听To request Buff Techs Desktop Support, email听oithelp@colorado.edu听蹿辞谤:

Malware removal
Basic device troubleshooting
Canvas, Zoom, and other IT services and issues.
Case escalation: Buff Techs will review all other technology issues, and refer cases to the appropriate IT group for resolution if unable to assist.

For additional support, visit听.

Buffs Tech support can help you with:

Troubleshooting听and diagnostics听on personally owned desktops, laptops, tablets, smart phones, printers, multifunction devices, and other personal computing devices.
Connecting to the campus network.
Operating system installation, configuration, and maintenance as well as restoration or reinstallation.
Software installation and configuration
Virus, spyware and malware removal
Laptop registration

How to get it?

Walk-in to either the听Center for Academic Success and Engagement (CASE) room E276,听, or听Stearns Central 142听(Check the听听for operating hours and waiting times).
Bring your Buff OneCard to sign in at the Walk-In Console
Customers with laptop computers should bring their power supply
Customers with desktops do not need to bring peripherals (keyboard, monitor, mouse) in order to receive assistance

Buff Techs walk-in locations have temporarily closed as of March 19; however, you can still get support for your computing device needs while teaching, learning, or working remotely during CU Boulder鈥檚 operational changes due to COVID-19. To request Buff Techs Desktop Support, email听oithelp@colorado.edu

What type of support is provided by DDS?

Support includes a recommendation, specification, installation, testing, and troubleshooting of computer systems and peripherals within established campus standards/policies and industry best practices.
Professional assistance includes timely troubleshooting, on location, to diagnose and resolve unique, non-recurring issues within a 4-hour response time, often responding within 30 mins.
Dedicated Desktop Support clients access the service through the听听which allows the client to quickly and easily notify their support team of the issue and level of urgency. If the primary technician is unavailable or assisting another client, other technicians from the team can quickly respond.
All new software installations and updates go through a change management process including multiple testing configurations by technicians on different hardware to minimize the number of errors on the user鈥檚 computer.
The desktop support technicians understand and comply with campus security policies. They help the computer owners understand the security policies and how to safeguard or remediate sensitive data.
Desktop Support technicians are professionally certified with Microsoft and Apple and receive training in other areas.

A detailed explanation of services and FAQs are listed on the OIT website regarding听Dedicated Desktop Support.

Who is eligible for DDS?

Faculty and staff in the Environmental Studies Program are eligible to receive DDS support on university-owned computers.

How do I get support if I'm not eligible for DDS?

Buffs Tech Desktop Support is听available to all campus affiliates for听personally and university-owned computing equipment. For additional information please visit OIT's .

If you would like to determine if you're eligible for DDS,听please contact Leonard Martinez.

CU Boulder provides robust email and calendaring options to all members of the campus community, enhancing efficiency and effectiveness of collaboration, communications, and scheduling.听Each of these email/calendaring options offers a suite of tools including email, personal calendaring, address books/contacts and task lists.听 All CU Boulder faculty, staff and students receive a CU Boulder email account with a听first.last@colorado.edu听email address.

Your email address will be created when you activate your BuffOne Card. If you were not provided with this information, you can call OIT听at 303-735-HELP and ask them to provide you with this information.

Additional information can be found on the OIT website regarding听.

For new phones, name/number changes, long distance codes, and any other questions you may have about the telephone system please contact Leonard Martinez, as the ENVS Telecommunication Liaison.

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