Beginning the week of April 18, all faculty/staff Windows machines will require users to log in with userid@dce.psu.edu instead of just their userID.

Beginning the week of April 18, two major changes will take effect on all faculty and staff Windows machines.

• Authentication Changes – All Faculty/Staff Windows machines will require users to log in with userid@dce.psu.edu instead of just their userid. (See below.)

You will be required to use the @dce credentials when the Windows patches are applied to your computer, this will occur at different times for each individual during the week of April 18. Once your regular userid log in fails, you will then need to begin using the @dce credentials.

Recently, security patches released from Microsoft have caused login issues for users forcing a log in into faculty/staff machines with their full dce.psu.edu login until the patch was removed from their workstation.

Moving forward, The Office of Information Security (OIS) has determined that the risk of not installing these patches outweighs the inconvenience of the authentication changes. As a result, all library faculty and staff will be required to use this new login procedure and future security patches will continue to be installed.

Note: If prompted from a pop-up window you may need to add the same credentials when accessing a network drive. This should only be a one-time procedure.

• Reboot once per week – All Faculty/Staff Windows machines will reboot every Sunday morning between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m.

To ensure all security updates are being installed in a timely matter, all Faculty and Staff Windows machines will be rebooted every Sunday morning between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m.. If you take your machine home, your machine will be restarted after booting up your machine back at work. This change will take effect beginning April 24.

With this change, users should always save their data before leaving work, close all applications and log off their machines.