Month: March 2022

IT Professionals:  The University Information Security Office (UISO) would like to make you aware that the Federal Communications Commission has determined that security products from Kaspersky, a Russian maker of antivirus and other security software, pose an unacceptable risk to US national security [1] [2].  The UISO issued a similar advisory in 2017, when the Department of Homeland… Read more »

IT Professionals, We would like to make you aware of updates to the Google Services Dashboard [1] that are now in production: The Individual list now shows everyone with 4GB of storage and above. The quota in Google is still planned for 5GB, but the lowered report threshold was requested to help monitor users who… Read more »

Hello IT Professionals,   Our spring EdCert professional training courses wrap up in June and include new course offerings from CertNexus, Microsoft, and CompTIA. Courses will be available only as an ONLINE option, participating remotely from your own workstation.  Class meets from 9am to 4pm.  Mar 29 – 31 CertNexus Cyber Secure Coder (CSC-210)         CertNexus $500     Register by Mar 23   The stakes for software security are extremely… Read more »

IT Professionals,  As you may know, we are in the process of transitioning to a new bookstore vendor. While many faculty order course materials themselves, others have IU staff members place their orders.  Due to the timing of the transition, IU eTexts is assisting Follett in collecting information about staff who place orders for faculty…. Read more »

IT Professionals: Campus Networks would like to make IT Pros and System Administrators aware of DNS and Network Time Protocol (NTP) maintenance scheduled from March 25, at 10:00 pm through March 26, at 9:00 am. DNS and NTP will be moved to a new platform during this timeframe. While there may be some minor interruptions… Read more »

IT Professionals, This Saturday, March 19, from 12–7am EST, Examity online proctoring [1] will be unavailable while the vendor performs routine maintenance. As always, we will continue to provide timely communications concerning future updates. –IT Community Partnerships on behalf of The eLearning Services team [1] About online proctoring at IU https://kb.iu.edu/d/bftk

IT Professionals:  Campus Networks would like to make IT Pros and System Administrators aware of DNS maintenance scheduled from March 11 at 10:00pm through March 12 at 9:00am. Due to this maintenance, the Campus Network Portal (CNP) will not be available for DNS and static IP changes/requests [1].  If you have an emergency change during this time… Read more »

IT Professional Colleagues:  Join us tomorrow for an infoshare about Google Services Updates. Justin Zemlyak from Teaching and Learning Technologies and Adam Sweeny from Enterprise Microsoft Administration will discuss changes to Google Services at IU. Additional members from the Teaching and Learning Technologies and Enterprise Microsoft Administration teams will help answer questions, and we will… Read more »

IT Professionals:  As you may have already heard, the IU Bookstore will soon be under new management [1].  The UITS Learning Technologies team would like to make you aware so that you can help instructors negotiate this once in a decade transition to a new bookstore vendor.  Please know that UITS is working hard to… 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 on behalf of Enterprise Web Technical Services … Read more »