IST Windows home page

Notice Board
Windows 7 information is now available under the "About Windows" link at the left.
As of September 2008 our preferred Windows Workstation vendor is Lenovo. Please click HERE for information about purchasing a Lenovo computer at UW.

WINDOWS in Academic Support

IST supports over two thousand office PCs running the Windows operating system at the University of Waterloo and over 200 Windows-based servers. This web site includes pages on security, setup, support, purchasing and maintenance information for the clients and support staff of these workstations and servers. Also included are links related to our Active Directory environment (called ADS).

Currently, the operating systems we encourage and support are Windows XP SP3 and Vista for workstations, and Windows 2003 SP2 and Windows Server 2008 for servers. An Off-Site Links page has been created for previously discovered "useful" links. Server information has been collected primarily under the "Server" tab on the left, although other server material can be found under Security and Hardware. The "Maintaining Your PC" tab will direct you on you can do to configure and better protect your PC yourself whereas the "IST Managed PCs" tab will show you what we do to configure PCs for our clients. Both have lots of tips for the "do-it-yourselfer".