Month: January 2020

IT Professionals: UITS Telecommunications has been informed of a number of vulnerabilities [1, 2, 3] in the Polycom VVX series of IP phones [4].  This vulnerability may allow remote code execution.  Due to the severity of the threat, UITS Telecom has elected to push a firmware upgrade to all VVX phones. As a result of… Read more »

IT Professionals: As you may know, the University Information Policy Office (UIPO) and University Information Security Office (UISO) routinely communicate via email regarding passphrase scrambles, compromised devices, vulnerable hosts, daily usage reports, and non-US login reports for users within the department(s) supported by your IT unit.  These notices rely upon information within IT People [1]… Read more »

Greetings! In this issue of the IU Cloud Technology newsletter we are focusing on training. We have several training opportunities, some one-time and some ongoing. The first one listed is very soon, so act quickly if you’d like to take advantage of it. 1 — Free Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals training February 5 (register by… Read more »

Hello IT Professionals, Although our renovated classroom is not quite available, our EdCert courses still are! We’re pleased to announce this EdCert schedule will include a new course which provides the basic concepts to successfully manage small- to medium-sized projects, inside and outside of IT.  CompTIA Project+ covers essential project management concepts beyond the scope of a single methodology or framework…. 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 that all Webserve accounts not migrated to IU Sitehosting will be disabled on March 20, 2020. You can view Webserve accounts that you own [1] and if you’d like to get a list of group Webserve accounts for the units… Read more »

IT Professionals: Regarding the message titled “Wireless Security Certificate Updates Scheduled 1/22/2020” sent on Thursday, January 16, 2020 by IT Community Partnerships, the following paragraph should have been omitted: “Campus Networks is working with Leveraged Services to package the new certificates for distribution via SCCM, Casper, and AirWatch. Devices that receive the certificate via these… Read more »

IT Professionals: The University Information Security Office would like to make you aware of the following security bulletin of a Zero-Day vulnerability in Internet Explorer. A new, unpatched, zero-day remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Internet Explorer [1].  This critical vulnerability can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code giving them the same… Read more »

Hello IT Professionals, The UITS Storage and Virtualization (SAV) team would like you to be aware of the upcoming annual fiscal review process for Intelligent Infrastructure (II) services and action items that may require your attention before February 3, 2020. What is happening? The annual fiscal review process for Intelligent Infrastructure (II) resources will take place… Read more »

IT Professionals, Our previously communicated date regarding IT People and tool assignment going live tomorrow, January 17, will need to be pushed back at least until Tuesday, January 21.  This delay is primarily around the need to incorporate IT Pros who are considered affiliates and who are not presently part of our HR data-pull used… Read more »

Hello IT Professionals, Campus Networks is planning to update the Security Certificates for eduroam and IU Secure on Wednesday, January 22, 2019.  IU Guest and DeviceNet will not be affected. The current Security Certificates are due to expire January 27. Campus Networks is working with Leveraged Services to package the new certificates for distribution via SCCM, Casper, and AirWatch. Devices that… Read more »