Month: May 2021

IT Professionals,    As a reminder, the Enterprise Microsoft Administration team is retiring support for Exchange 2013 Public Folders [1] on June 1.     The majority of public folders have already been converted to Exchange Online Resource Rooms, but if you’re still working on some folders, please request a migration at sct2@iu.edu by end of business on June 1 to make sure it’s… Read more »

IT Professionals, Pearson will be conducting maintenance [1] this Saturday, May 22 between 1:00am and 9:00am on the following LTIs used at IU: MyLab, Mastering, and Modified Mastering [2]. During this time, instructors and students will be able to access their courses; however, when instructors create a new course, copy an existing course, or copy… Read more »

Dear IT Professionals, We are pleased to inform you that the issues with IU websites are now repaired, and all web pages should be up and running. The outage was caused by two bugs that compounded each other, but our vendor has fixed the issues so this should not reoccur in the future. If you… Read more »

Dear IT Professionals, Thank you for your flexibility and patience during the retirement of the PGP service. As a final reminder, the PGP service retires June 11. All PGP appliances will be deactivated throughout the morning of June 11 and all accounts will be inaccessible by noon, EDT.  We will no longer have access to the… Read more »

Dear IT Professionals, This is to inform you that users on all campuses have been experiencing intermittent difficulties accessing multiple IU websites, including IU’s central web server, IU Sitehosting. Affected pages included www.iu.edu, www.indiana.edu, www.iupui.edu, buy.iu.edu, and others. Service to most high-traffic sites has been restored, but some sites remain unavailable. If you know of… Read more »

IT Professionals,  Microsoft’s May 2021 Security Updates address four critical bugs; while all critical bugs should be patched quickly, one vulnerability is of particular importance due to its wormable nature. CVE-2021-31166 [1] is a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability that stems from an issue with the HTTP protocol-stack.  This protocol-stack enables Windows and applications to communicate with other devices via HTTP.  This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to send a specially crafted packet to a server… Read more »

IT Professionals: The eLearning team would like to make you aware that they will be sending the following text to all Zoom users directly, as well as let you know of this important update to Zoom. To keep your Zoom experience secure and take advantage of new settings, you must update your Zoom desktop client… Read more »

IT Professionals: The Linux Peer Community invites all with an interest in Linux to join a new community of practice for collaboration and knowledge sharing. We cover Linux infrastructure, usage, system management, and Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) principles. We will have a townhall-style callout meeting on May 5 at 10:00 am via Zoom: https://iu.zoom.us/j/82060656279?pwd=NkxyV0NBSWZzdGhub2tjRGNXTllTUT09…. Read more »

IT Professionals, Join us for an infoshare about Cyber Risk Mitigation Continuous Engagement. The University Information Security Office will present on up-coming cyber risk mitigation efforts, focusing on the following activities. Continuous engagement: The UISO will reduce the “transactional” feel of past efforts, shifting from multi-year cycles to more appropriate intervals based on unit needs. Relationship building: The UISO has… Read more »