Month: February 2022

IT Professionals, As first mentioned in the Storage CoP coffee hour, a dashboard showing users above the 5GB threshold for storage in Google Drive [1] is now available. Access to this dashboard is granted to all members, sub-leads, leaders, and select related users in IT People. If the dashboard appears blank, please reach out to your… Read more »

Colleagues, IU continues to monitor the ongoing situation in Ukraine and its potential impacts to university information and information systems.  There are currently no specific or actionable threats to Indiana University. As this crisis unfolds, please continue to practice good cybersecurity hygiene; namely: Patch endpoints and servers in a timeframe commensurate with the risk of… Read more »

Colleagues:  UITS is announcing significant rate reductions in services for the Intelligent Infrastructure. This is the result of good work between UITS and Purchasing to negotiate new contracts with the three key suppliers. The old and new rates are listed below and the KB document [1] provides rate examples.   Current rates:  Allocated CPU: $81/vCPU/year  Allocated RAM:… Read more »

IT Professional Colleagues:  We wanted to make you aware of two security feature changes coming to the Exchange Online Environment on March 15.  UITS will be notifying Exchange users of this change, as well as the migration of student accounts into Exchange for email next week. Please note that student accounts will not be moved to… Read more »

IT Professional Colleagues:  Join us for an infoshare about campus network updates to the 802.1x standard. Mark Spencer from the Campus Network Engineering team will discuss static-IP devices move to DHCP reservations, as well as other updates, as we prepare for the move of wired connections to 802.1x.  What: Infoshare – Campus Networks 802.1x   Presenters: Mark Spencer, Campus Network… Read more »

IT Professional Colleagues:  Join us tomorrow for an infoshare about Anthology Ally, a new accessibility checker that integrates with Canvas. Sarah Herpst from the Assistive Technology and Accessibility Centers team will provide a demonstration of the product, answer questions, and provide general information about the Spring 2022 pilot program.   What: Infoshare – Anthology Ally Presenter: Sarah Herpst, Assistive Technology… Read more »

IT Professionals, Join us tomorrow, February 22, for the first Dell Client Roadmap, online via Zoom. If you cannot make it, we will host a second session on Thursday, March 3. These events will be provided by Dell representative, Jamie Stevens, and a Dell client technologist. The Dell team will present the new hardware that… Read more »

Colleagues:  As IU increases its adoption of the Microsoft 365 platform, it is increasingly important to make sure all Office clients are upgraded to the most recent version, Microsoft Office 365. Over half of the managed devices at IU have deployed Office 365, but there are still a substantial number of older versions installed, including… Read more »

IT Professionals, If your IT Department has a newsletter or other online publication primarily aimed at faculty and instructors, please consider adding the following announcement from the UITS Learning Technologies team. ~~~  Learn More About IU eTexts and Affordable Content Options  The IU eTexts team has a lot planned for this semester, from Scholars Book… Read more »

IT Professionals, This Saturday, February 19, from 1-6:30am EST, Examity online proctoring [1] will be unavailable while the vendor performs routine maintenance. Additionally that day, from 6:30-10am EST, WileyPLUS and its integrations in Canvas [2] will be unavailable during system upgrades. As always, we will continue to provide timely communications concerning future updates. –IT Community… Read more »