Month: February 2021

IT Professional Colleagues: With Box going read only on March 1, we recommend you uninstall Box Drive and Box Sync from any machines that are currently using the applications. Box Drive and Sync could cause data loss if a user saves data to their local machine believing that it has been uploaded to Box. In… Read more »

IT Professionals: The Software and Services Selection Process (SSSP) Team asks that you check the ‘Contact Email’ for each of your units in IT People [1] to ensure it is current. The ‘Contact Email’ field of IT People is used by SSSP to auto-suggest the ‘Email Contact for IT Unit or Leader ’ in the… Read more »

IT Professionals: As a result of the upcoming Box read-only change on Monday, March 1, 2021, UITS has decided to postpone next week’s Exchange Online mailbox migrations planned for that day to Friday March 5, 2021. No other dates are impacted. The Exchange Online Migration dashboard [1] been updated with these new migration dates. Please… Read more »

IT Professionals: We would like to inform you that the following mailing will be sent to Box users directly Tuesday, February 23. We would like to call attention to the option that users can convert their IU Box account to a Box.com “lite” account. This will allow them to continue collaborations using their IU email… Read more »

IT Professionals, The following is a reminder mailing about the 2021 IT Leadership Boot Camp and how to apply. You are encouraged to apply using the link in the mailing. If you have any questions, please contact Lesley Grider (lagrider@iu.edu) or Anne Stowers (anbartle@iu.edu). –IT Community Partnerships ~~~~~ Text of Mailing ~~~~~ Every year, UITS… Read more »

Greetings IT Pros, On February 9 2021, Microsoft released an urgent security advisory regarding three critical vulnerabilities that were found to be affecting Windows TCP/IP[1]. This warning was issued due to elevated exploitation risk and potential denial-of-service (DoS) attacks that could soon target these bugs. The three TCP/IP security vulnerabilities impact computers running Windows client and server versions starting with… Read more »

Dear colleagues: Thank you for all of the valuable feedback you have provided so far during the Exchange Online migration. It has helped everyone at UITS tremendously to understand challenges you have experienced. We would like to make it even easier and faster for you to provide feedback. Starting this morning, UITS is launching a… Read more »

IT Professionals: The following email was sent directly to Sitehost owners and contacts, informing them of the upcoming PHP and MySQL version updates coming this month. Users are encouraged to test their sites and applications for compatibility before WebTech updates the production environment. –IT Community Partnerships ~~~~~ Text of Direct Mailing ~~~~~ Greetings IU Sitehost… Read more »

IT Professional Colleagues: We have received feedback on common issues end-users are experiencing throughout the EXO migration. To help with these issues, we drafted the message below as a template which can be sent to end-users: Hello, Your email address will move to Exchange Online soon. If you encounter issues, below is a list of common solutions. Please save these… Read more »

IT Professionals, IT Community Partnerships will host an infoshare on the Dell Client Roadmap today, Wednesday, February 3, online via Zoom. This event will be provided by Dell representative, Jamie Stevens, and a Dell client technologist. The Dell team will present the new hardware that will be announced soon including laptops, desktops, and monitors. Note:… Read more »