ITCP Weekly Update September 30 – October 4 – A weekly digest from IT Community Partnerships of what our IT colleagues need to know

In today’s issue
Announcements
Upcoming events
Mailings
Resources
Did you know

Announcements

• No new announcements

Upcoming events

Wednesday, October 9
IU Women in IT – Candid Conversations for Caregivers
10-11am ET
Registration required
Join us for a virtual, informal, and candid discussion about caregiving. Whether you care for someone who is elderly, disabled, a relative, a child, a spouse, or any other loved one, IUWIT recognizes that being a caregiver can be extremely stressful. In this virtual setting, we invite you to vent, share resources and experiences, and find support from other caregivers.  All sessions are open to anyone of any gender.

Wednesday, October 9 or Thursday, October 10
Vendor Event – Apple Office Hours: Apple Intelligence and Private Cloud Compute
October 9 2-3:30pm ET
October 10 Noon-1:30pm ET
Apple invites you to attend an Office Hour session on either Wednesday, October 9 at 2pm ET or Thursday, October 10 at 12pm ET. The Apple Consulting Engineer team will first give an overview of Apple Intelligence, followed by a discussion on Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models and Private Cloud Compute. Each session is one hour including Q&A on the main topics, followed by a 30-minute Q&A session on any Apple-related topics. The sessions will cover the same material and are being made available to all higher education clients; these are not exclusive to IU. See ITCP mailing for recommended pre-work and Apple Webex meeting links.

Monday, October 14 – Friday, October 18
EdCert course – Microsoft Azure Administrator
8:30am-4:30pm ET
[Registration is full.  Please contact edcert@iu.edu to be placed on waitlist.]
This course teaches how to manage Azure subscriptions, secure identities, administer the infrastructure, configure virtual networking, connect Azure and on-premises sites, manage network traffic, implement storage solutions, create and scale virtual machines, implement web apps and containers, back up and share data, and monitor your solution. This course assists in the preparation for the Microsoft Azure Administrator AZ-104 certification exam.

Tuesday, October 15
IT Leadership Community Diversity and Inclusion Action Team workshop – Supporting international staff: The immigrant experience
1-2pm ET
In this session, we will provide essential information on hiring international staff, covering topics such as Optional Practical Training for F-1 students, the H-1B visa, and the permanent residency process. We will also explore the challenges international staff face, including timeline constraints, issues related to their dependents, and the limitations on growth opportunities while they are on visa status.
Whether you are a current student or full-time international staff member, or leader, these discussions are designed to help you understand the process and promote greater equity for international employees. This IT Leadership Community D&I Action Team workshop is open to anyone in the IU IT community. Meeting Zoom link is available at the event link.

Thursday, October 17
Supercomputing For Everyone Series: Quantum Computing
10am-2pm ET
Registration required
This workshop provides a brief overview of Quantum Computing. A description of what it can and cannot do will be presented. Topics to be discussed include changes Quantum computing will make to the non-quantum, general HPC community, and why a disparate collection of large corporations are investing huge sums of money into a product which, as yet, has delivered no return. Also included will be a description of competing hardware and a simple, hands-on quantum programming exercise to be run on a quantum computer emulator. Registration information for online or in person attendance is available at the above event link.

Friday, October 18
Endpoint Management Services – coffee hours: Windows Common Build
3-4pm ET
Endpoint Management Services (EMS) invites you to bi-weekly, one-hour Microsoft Teams coffee hours to discuss and field questions about the IU Common Build and IU Print. This session is focused on Windows Common Build. This will be followed in two weeks with a session focused on IU Print, then two weeks later on macOS Common Build. These session topics will continue to rotate every two weeks for the next several months to give you the opportunity to become more informed about these services and to ask questions.

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Learn about and register for upcoming trainings, infoshares, coffee hours, and more. Visit the ITCP calendar for the full list of events currently scheduled. Find recordings of previous infoshares by logging into the ITCP Kaltura page.

Mailings

• Request review of administrative groups [October 1]
• Reminder: macOS Common Build coffee hours October 4 [October 3]
• Apple Office Hours October 9 & 10 [October 4]

Stay current on the latest service changes, security concerns, and information sharing events. Visit the ITCP blog for a searchable archive of ITCP mailings.

Resources
On the IT Community Partnerships homepage, find the tools and support you need and connect with the IT community.

• ITCP Blog
• ITCP Events Calendar
• IT People
• IT People documentation
• Handbook for those providing local UITS support

Did you know…
The IT Leadership Community Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Action Team is providing a workshop on Tuesday, October 15, Supporting international staff: The immigrant experience. The ITLC D&I Action Team is committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion at IU. Learn about their initiatives and how to become involved.

IT Community Partnerships (ITCP) supports those providing local UITS support at Indiana University through timely communications of important IT information, opportunities to connect with the IT community, and data resources to aid in decision-making for their unit or service.

ITCP Weekly Update September 23 – 27 – A weekly digest from IT Community Partnerships of what our IT colleagues need to know

In today’s issue
Announcements
Upcoming events
Mailings
Resources
Did you know

Announcements

• Kaltura Recording: Coffee Hours – EMS IU Print – September 20

The recording of the coffee hours by Endpoint Management Services, originally presented on September 20, 2024, is now live.

• Unizin Engage eReader Maintenance – October 3

RedShelf will be performing scheduled maintenance on their eReader, also known as Unizin Engage, starting at 11pm on Thursday, October 3 and concluding at 12am on Friday, October 4.

• Pearson Maintenance – October 18, 19, & 26

Pearson will be conducting three maintenances in October that will impact a variety of standalone and integrated digital learning tools offered at IU. Details at announcement link.

Upcoming events

Monday, September 30 – Friday, October 4
EdCert course – Microsoft Automating Administration with PowerShell
8:30am-4:30pm ET
[Registration is full.  Please contact edcert@iu.edu to be placed on waitlist.]
This course provides students with the fundamental knowledge and skills to use PowerShell for administering and automating administration of Windows servers. This course provides students the skills to identify and build the command they require to perform a specific task. In addition, students learn how to build scripts to accomplish advanced tasks such as automating repetitive tasks and generating reports.

Tuesday, October 1
IT Leadership Community workshop – Identifying Work + Life Needs & Making Changes
2-3pm ET
In this interactive workshop, attendees will explore their values and priorities for work and personal life and be guided through making a plan toward a specific change. Attendees will have an opportunity to share recognitions in breakout groups. This workshop could be a helpful resource for employees ahead of Performance at IU conversations, if those occur with their supervisor. This IT Leadership Community workshop is open to anyone in the IU IT community. Meeting Zoom link is available at the event link.

Thursday, October 3
Supercomputing For Everyone Series: High Performance Computing for Biologists
2-4pm ET
Registration required
This workshop introduces IU Biology faculty, staff, and students to High Performance Computing (HPC) and the resources UITS Research Technologies makes available to them at IU to empower their research. This course follows on from the Introduction to HPC workshop and will cover the bioinformatics software available on IU’s supercomputing systems, the best ways to transfer, compute on, and store biological data, and how to efficiently utilize the systems. Registration information and session prerequisites are available at the above event link.

 Friday, October 4
Endpoint Management Services – coffee hours: macOS Common Build
3-4pm ET
Endpoint Management Services (EMS) invites you to bi-weekly, one-hour Microsoft Teams coffee hours to discuss and field questions about the IU Common Build and IU Print. This session is focused on macOS Common Build. This will be followed in two weeks with a session focused on Windows Common Build, then two weeks later on IU Print. These session topics will continue to rotate every two weeks for the next several months to give you the opportunity to become more informed about these services and to ask questions.

Wednesday, October 9
IU Women in IT – Candid Conversations for Caregivers
10-11am ET
Registration required
Join us for a virtual, informal, and candid discussion about caregiving. Whether you care for someone who is elderly, disabled, a relative, a child, a spouse, or any other loved one, IUWIT recognizes that being a caregiver can be extremely stressful. In this virtual setting, we invite you to vent, share resources and experiences, and find support from other caregivers.  All sessions are open to anyone of any gender.

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Learn about and register for upcoming trainings, infoshares, coffee hours, and more. Visit the ITCP calendar for the full list of events currently scheduled. Find recordings of previous infoshares by logging into the ITCP Kaltura page.

Mailings

• Reminder – Knowledge Base transition to ServiceNow this week [September 23]

Stay current on the latest service changes, security concerns, and information sharing events. Visit the ITCP blog for a searchable archive of ITCP mailings.

Resources
On the IT Community Partnerships homepage, find the tools and support you need and connect with the IT community.

• ITCP Blog
• ITCP Events Calendar
• IT People
• IT People documentation
• Handbook for those providing local UITS support

Did you know…
In the new ServiceNow Knowledge, “Copy Permalink” is very important. It is how you should obtain a Knowledge Base (KB) article URL. You should no longer copy a KB URL from your browser’s address bar when you want to save the article URL.

The permalink will always take you to the article’s latest version. “Copy Permalink” is located just below the KB article title. Learn more About the IU Knowledge Base transition to ServiceNow Knowledge.
  

IT Community Partnerships (ITCP) supports those providing local UITS support at Indiana University through timely communications of important IT information, opportunities to connect with the IT community, and data resources to aid in decision-making for their unit or service.