Month: February 2022

IT Professional Colleagues:  Join us 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 and… Read more »

IT Professionals:  The Google Storage Task Force is partnering with the Storage Community of Practice to host a town hall-style discussion about critical updates planned for google services in 2022 [1]. IT Pros interested in learning more are invited to join us on Thursday, February 17 at 9:00 AM ET. We won’t have all the… Read more »

IT Professionals: Please join us tomorrow, Tuesday, February 15, from 2-3pm ET, and IU’s Apple Systems Engineer, Mike Kimmel, for a one-hour workshop that is designed to help those of you that are less familiar with the macOS platform, from an end-user perspective, and learn some of the foundational things that make the Mac different…. Read more »

Critical updates planned for Google services in 2022  For more than a decade, Google has offered their full suite of services to higher education institutions at no cost. Google has announced that they would be placing caps on storage utilization. These storage caps are set at 30% of the current total data stored in the… Read more »

IT Professionals,   Alongside the migration to IU Login 2.0 [1], the Identity Management System team also released a completely redesigned IU Guest account service [2]. It supports guest accounts from the existing service, as well as new email accounts and social login accounts from Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. The new External Accounts API may be… Read more »

IT Professionals, IT Community Partnerships will host two infoshares on the Dell Client Roadmap Tuesday, February 22, and Thursday, March 3, online via Zoom. These events 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,… Read more »

IT Professionals:     A few weeks ago, you received a communication about a change to how U2F security keys work with Duo in Chrome and Microsoft Edge [1]. As expected, Duo released the change but, due to an unexpected impact, the changes were reverted on January 28. Going forward, you will see U2F security keys work… Read more »

IT Professionals: Thank you for all your work over the past two years to migrate your services to IU Login 2.0. We have finally reached the finish line, and on this coming Monday, February 7, at noon, the legacy IU Login infrastructure will be officially retired. If you discover that a service has not migrated to IU… Read more »

IT Professionals: Campus Networks would like to make IT Pros and System Administrators aware of an upcoming change regarding DNS on February 24, 2022. While this change is expected to have minimal impact, it is important that you read this information below in case you have any systems affected. IU’s external DNS servers (dns1.iu.edu, dns2.iu.edu… Read more »

IT Professionals:    Apple would like to invite you to a set of office hours and a workshop next month.     Office Hours   The monthly office hour series with Apple systems engineers will take a deep dive into new topics every month. The February events will focus on iOS and macOS Managed OS… Read more »