Administrative Access Policy
All UW Bothell faculty and staff are provided with computer accounts that provide access to all UW Bothell computers and email. Standard UW Bothell computer accounts allow standard user-level access to all computers.
The IS department is responsible for administering all computers and will be happy to perform administrative tasks as needed. These responsibilities include, for example, ensuring that all computers receive appropriate and timely security updates, patches and software upgrades. IS also performs administrative tasks, such as software installations (http://www.uwb.edu/computing/facstaff/softwarerequestform.xhtml), for users by request.
In some cases IS provides faculty and staff users with separate administrative computing accounts. These accounts can be provided if the user needs to conduct administrative-level computing tasks in the performance of her or his job with the understanding that they are assuming responsibility for the following:
- They must ensure that their computers receive all appropriate security updates and are responsible for the security of their computers.
- They are responsible for ensuring that all installed software is properly licensed for the University of Washington.
- If problems arise with these computers and the IS department is unable to fix the problem, computer re-imaging may be required.
Faculty and staff users who would like to request administrative access should contact the helpdesk at help@uwb.edu. Users must schedule a quick orientation meeting (usually 30 minutes or less) with IS before access can be granted.