Month: October 2020

IT Professionals:    In December 2018, Microsoft discontinued its antivirus product for Apple devices. As a replacement, Microsoft provided Indiana University a license to use ESET AntiVirus for MacOS. This license expires November 28, 2020 and Microsoft has shared that it will not be renewed.     As part of our enterprise agreement, IU has licensed multiple Microsoft products which includes Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection for Mac, which is a new product… Read more »

IT Professionals, A final round of notifications will be going out October 29th in regards to the disabling of the Microsoft shared-access protocol Server Message Block 1.0 (SMBv1).  This is the third targeted notice being sent in regards to this retirement. To ensure notices are delivered to the correct IT Professionals or group account for… Read more »

IT Professionals: IT Training would like to make you aware of the November schedule for webinars that are helpful to IT Pros and others that are useful for the folks that IT Pros support. This includes a new webinar aimed at storage owners on managing permissions in Google and Microsoft storage. We are also bringing back our Zoom:… Read more »

IT Professionals: We previously sent out a mailing about the Log-Alert service moving to Elastic, the text which follows below. The links to the impact lists and migration plans have had their URLs and content updated and we are sharing those with you now: [1] Impact List [IU Login Required]: https://uisapp2.iu.edu/confluence-prd/download/attachments/522192771/Splunk-to-Elastic%20Impact%20List.pdf [2] Migration Plan Graphic… Read more »

IT Professionals, The eLearning Services team (eLS) wants to inform you of an upcoming change to Adobe at IU. On October 27th at 12:00am, users of Adobe at IU will be signed out of all Adobe software [1] due to a scheduled migration. This includes Adobe Creative cloud as well as products such as Sign… Read more »

IT Professionals:  UITS is transitioning the Leveraged Services Log-Alert service from the Splunk Technology software platform to the Elastic NV (formerly Elasticsearch) software platform. Splunk Enterprise licensing expires on November 2, 2021 and will not be renewed.  Only IT-12 dashboards will transition to the new Elastic environment. Departments with non-IT-12 dashboards may consider moving to… Read more »

Greetings, A colleague at another university has discovered a technique to extract sensitive information out of dashboards (public and private) created with Power BI. Specifically, when a Power BI dashboard is published, its API exposes all source data including table schema and row-level data, rather than just the data used in report visualizations. This issue… Read more »

IT Professionals, Join us for an infoshare about the continuing Box Migration. We will discuss information and steps that users can take to re-activate accounts and data that has been deactivated due to no survey response.                      What: Infoshare– Box Migration – Post Group Survey                      Presenters: Adam Sweeny, Campus Communication Infrastructure, Jake George, Support Center Tier 2                      When: Tuesday, October 13, 2 to 3pm                      Where: Online. https://iu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QhIrK-o8RuS9uGa6EFh5WA(password: ITCP207990). Your confirmation… Read more »

IT Professionals: The Web Tech team will be migrating the IU Sitehost storage to a new system. They would like to make you aware of this change in case you support anyone utilizing it. The below is the text of a direct mailing sent to users of IU Sitehost. –IT Community Partnerships on behalf of… Read more »

Dear IT Pros, As of the Microsoft 365 for Mac November 2020 update, macOS 10.14 Mojave or later is required to receive updates to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote [1]. If you continue with an older version of macOS, your Office apps will continue to work but you will no longer receive any updates… Read more »