Month: July 2021

IT Professionals, On Monday, July 26, Google will begin contacting users who own or manage files that will be impacted by a security update planned for mid-September. [1] This security update will be applied to Google Drive on Monday, September 13. This change will make Google Drive files more secure by updating their links with… Read more »

IT Professionals:  As we are nearing when many will return to the office in-person, we wanted to make you aware of two changes/updates on video meetings inside video conference rooms with videoconferencing systems.   Zoom Muted Upon Entry:  If you joined a Zoom meeting using the conference room equipment and you appear as unmuted and other people in the meeting cannot… Read more »

IT Professionals, We wanted to remind you that we are quickly approaching the last infoshare for the Log-Alert migration from Splunk to Elastic on July 27. This infoshare is designed to communicate the final stages of onboarding for each department and collect needed information. If you are still expecting to migrate to Elastic, please complete… Read more »

IT Professionals, The IT Community Partnerships team will host an online Infoshare session with our Systems Engineer from Apple, Mike Kimmel. The session will be on Thursday, July 29, from 1:30pm – 3:00pm EDT. The session will be hosted via WebEx, which is Apple’s required conferencing platform. IT Pros as well as interested faculty and… Read more »

Colleagues, Per the announcement below, IMS planned to restrict the legacy IU Login production environment to registered applications. However, yesterday morning’s release encountered some issues and has been postponed. Updates about the expected release are forthcoming. Thank you for your patience as we transition. If you haven’t already, migrate to IU Login 2.0 as soon as… Read more »

IT Professionals, On Saturday, July 17, Pearson will be conducting maintenance [1] between 1:00am and 9:00am on the following products used at IU: MyLab & Mastering, MyLabsPlus [2]. During this time, instructors and students will be unable to access their courses via Pearson’s standalone and integrated products. Also on Saturday, July 17, Instructure will conduct… Read more »

IT Professionals, Join us for an infoshare about upgrading to M365 Office applications on July 15 at 2:30pm EDT. Members of UITS will present on upcoming upgrade efforts. The presentation will focus on answering the following questions: What is M365? – Learn what the suite has in features and updates. Why upgrade and why now? – Learn why IU… Read more »

IT Professionals: Microsoft is ending support for Skype for Business Online on July 31, 2021 [1].  This will NOT affect any services or devices at Indiana University, which uses the on premise solution Skype for Business 2015. Indiana University is working on testing a Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams migration.  Pilot units may be… Read more »

IT Professionals, The following mailing has been sent to the owners and contacts of IU Sitehost and Pages accounts. Beginning Tuesday, July 20, tilde URLs (e.g., www.iu.edu/~username) on Sitehost and Pages will no longer be automatically redirected to their username.sitehost.iu.edu equivalent (or virtual host, if applicable). Instead, tilde URLs will be redirected to a 404… Read more »

The information in this email applies to application owners and does not significantly impact end users. IT Professionals, Beginning Thursday, July 15 at 5am ET, the legacy IU Login production environment will only support applications registered with Identity Management Systems. Even if your application is currently supported on the legacy IU Login infrastructure, it will… Read more »