Month: December 2019

IT Professionals, The eLearning Services team (eLS) want to inform you of one upcoming release. On Monday, December 23 from 6:00am – 7:00am EST, WileyPLUS and all integrations in Canvas [1] will be unavailable while the vendor performs system upgrades. As always, we will continue to provide timely communication/additional information concerning future updates. –IT Community… Read more »

IT Professionals, Faculty and staff who are traveling this holiday season, especially those traveling internationally, face increased risks of having university data or devices compromised or stolen. The top story in this week’s Monitor will highlight these increased risks and encourage employees to contact their IT Professionals for assistance in preparing for holiday and overseas… Read more »

IT Professionals: This communication is the second of three reminders before IT People (https://itpeople.apps.iu.edu/), the replacement to the IT Pro Database, becomes fully active. We will convey one final reminder on Monday, January 6th 2020 conveying that tools will become active within IT People on Monday, January 13th, 2020. IT unit leadership must assign tool access and the departments supported within IT… Read more »

IT Professionals: The Campus Communications Infrastructure team would like to remind you that Microsoft has announced that it will be requiring binding and signing of LDAP queries for all Windows hosts in the January 2020 OS Security patch [1,2].  The Active Directory Servers at IU are currently monitoring client connections that will fail when the… Read more »

IT Professionals, The Web Services Support & Enterprise Web Technical Services teams has contacted Webserve owners directly with the below text.  The communication is a reminder to migrate their PHP sites before December 23 to prevent the sites from being disabled.  Web sites that are not using PHP will continue to work until the March deadline unless they have been migrated. You can view Webserve accounts that you… Read more »

IT Professionals: We are pleased to announce the acquisition of ServiceNow ITSM [1] as the replacement for the UITS FootPrints [2] service. FootPrints will remain in production for at least the next 18 months as we work with stakeholders to review business processes, design a new architecture that better integrates ticket management and service provision across groups, and migrate existing FootPrints users to… Read more »

IT Professionals, The Campus Communications Infrastructure (CCI) team would like to remind you that on December 15, 2019, the Active Directory administrators will implement a cleanup of Stale Objects in the directory [1]. Specifically, this will target: Computer Objects in any OU that have not connected to the Domain in 180+ days Group Policy Objects that are… Read more »

IT Professionals, The eLearning Services team (eLS) wants to inform you of four upcoming events. First, Top Hat [1] will be performing system maintenance that will render the Top Hat Gradebook inaccessible from 10:00am – 1:00pm on Sunday, December 8. Additionally,  there is a Canvas [2] release scheduled for Saturday, December 21 between 8:00am and… Read more »

IT Professionals, IT Community Partnerships would like to invite you to the upcoming IT Water Cooler [1] event on Thursday, December 5. Please note the date has been changed since our original save the date was sent.  The IT Water Cooler is an opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with others interested in IU IT. We encourage you to attend in person at the Innovation… Read more »