IT Services

Helpful Links

Disruptions

Help Pages

 

IT Team Public Wiki

School Computing Laboratories (Lab Timetables)

New Computer Guidelines.

Requesting/Creating Computing Account Procedures for Admin and IT Staff (including VRS)

School IT Helpline and Helpdesk

Help Request Form
Email address: seesup@ed.ac.uk          Telephone: 505636
(note the Request Form, email address and phone go first to the Central University Information Services (IS) Helpline who screen our calls.  Note they are dealing with requests from all round the University not just Engineering so please state that you are an Engineering user).

How to use the IT Helpline

The Eng IT Help Desk is located in the Alrick Building, room A116 and is open between 1000 - 1200 & 1400 - 1600  (except Wednesday afternoons). 

Laptop Clinics

IS run Laptop Clinics at the central campus and at KB.  Please use these clinics for problems with personal laptops (except for questions about accessing Eng file store etc).  Problems with School laptops should first be referred to us via the IT Helpline.  More information about the clinics is available here.

 


 IT News

  • Windows 7 and Office 2010:  The University roll out for Staff and PGs PCs has been delayed.  Our deployment to Staff/PGs will be looked at after the Teaching software has settled in. More information will be made available as the projects progress.
  • TLA/TLB/TLD/TLG: PCs in these labs can run both Linux and Windows 7, please see instructions in the labs about how to login (do NOT reboot them); TLC: Is Linux only (do NOT reboot them); TLF: Is Windows only.
  • IS ECDF Compute Resource: Researchers are encouraged to use the ECDF compute resource. Engineering specific information on "free" and "charged" usage is available here
    • ECDF run courses which help users make better use of cluster computers. Further details and booking instructions are available on the ECDF wiki here
  • IS Laptop Clinics: Please see the note above about this IS service for laptop users.
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