Month: January 2020

The eLearning Services team (eLS) want to inform you of some upcoming changes in Canvas. There is a Canvas [1] update scheduled for Saturday, January 18 between 8:00am and 12:00pm EST.  Canvas will receive feature updates and bug fixes managed by the vendor (Instructure). Highlights in this update include: Updated Features: Direct Share: Share Canvas… Read more »

IT Professionals: The University Information Security Office would like to make you aware of the following security bulletin of a vulnerability in the Microsoft CryptoAPI. Background: On January 14, 2020, Microsoft announced CVE-2020-0601 Windows CryptoAPI Spoofing Vulnerability [1]. The vulnerability exists in the Windows CryptoAPI (crypt32.dll) which is responsible for validating Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC)… Read more »

IT Professionals: The Campus Communications Infrastructure team would like to make you aware that Microsoft has postponed the change previously announced requiring binding and signing of LDAP queries for all Windows hosts. This has been pushed to an upcoming release in March 2020 [1,2].  The Active Directory Servers at IU are currently monitoring client connections that will… 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 Mozilla Firefox. Background On January 8th, The Mozilla Foundation released a security advisory to address a critical zero-day flaw in Mozilla Firefox, which has been exploited in targeted attacks.[1] To address CVE-2019-17026,… Read more »

IT Professionals, The eLearning Services team (eLS) want to inform you of two upcoming maintenances. First, beginning at 8:00 pm on Thursday, January 9, Box [1] will be performing system maintenance on their SSO logins. There is no expected downtime associated with this maintenance, which will be finished at 2:59 am on Friday, January 10…. Read more »

IT Professionals: We want to inform you that the Campus Networks Engineering team is moving the retirement of the IU Secure wireless SSID to Fall 2020. Moving to eduroam [1] affects devices that use single sign-on (SSO) through group policy on faculty and staff devices. Thanks to your feedback, we are exploring alternative options to address… Read more »

IT Professionals, As per our communication just prior to winter break, the IT People database will soon be going live, activating the tool assignments that IT unit leadership have made within IT People. Our original “go live” date was January 13th.  However, with the start of the semester occurring on the 13th, we will push… Read more »

IT Professionals, UITS would like to inform you of upcoming changes to the Red Hat licensing at IU. Due to the significant increases in Red Hat licensing costs and declining usage of Red Hat operating system across IU, UITS will be phasing out over a three-year period our enterprise license agreement.  UITS will continue to… Read more »

IT Professionals, The eLearning Services team (eLS) want to inform you of an upcoming maintenance. On Saturday, January 4 from 11:00am to 5:00pm EST, Turnitin 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. –   … Read more »

IT Professionals, The eLearning Services team (eLS) want to inform you of an upcoming maintenance. On Monday, December 30 from 2:00am – 7:00am EST, Pressbooks [1] will undergo system maintenance while the vendor implements several upgrades. The vendor will perform a similar maintenance again on Tuesday, December 31 from 2:00am – 7:00am EST. UITS does… Read more »