ITCP Weekly Update October 9 – 13 – A weekly digest from IT Community Partnerships of what IT Pros need to know
In today’s issue
Announcements
Upcoming events
Mailings
Resources for IT Pros
Announcements
Windows Backup has been deployed in the August updates to Windows 10 and 11 devices not joined to the domain. If clients approach you about the service for their personal devices or accounts, see KB5032038: Overview of Windows Backup as installed in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
The recording for the infoshare on the new Microsoft Teams updates, Bing Chat Enterprise, and Microsoft 365 Copilot, originally presented on October 10, 2023, is now live.
Upcoming events
Monday, October 16
Infoshare – Knowledge Base (KB) to ServiceNow Knowledge Transition
2-3pm ET
Register in advance
Jacob Farmer, Director of Enterprise Services, will discuss the upcoming move of the IU Knowledge Base to the ServiceNow Knowledge platform, scheduled for summer 2024. This change will take further advantage of IU’s investment in ServiceNow and enable additional ServiceNow functionality.
Tuesday, October 17
ITLC Conversations on Leadership – Hallucinations in the academy: adopting generative AI in higher education
3:30-4:30pm ET
Generative AI is in our lives and many IU platforms are already using it. Professors and students have different opinions and university staff do as well. We will discuss generative AI and its place in higher education. This session is part of an ITLC-sponsored series of informal discussions about leadership that are open to anyone in the IU IT community. In these meetings, we network in small groups. [Note: if you arrive late to the meeting, just wait a few minutes and someone will add you to one of the breakout rooms.] Resources are available to prepare for this session.
Wednesday, October 18
BTAA WIT Coffee Catch-Up: Personal Branding
10-10:30am ET
Join IT staff from Big Ten Universities in a monthly discussion of various topics. The topic for October is “Personal Branding” and will be hosted by Mehrnaz Ahmadi Joobaneh, University of Wisconsin.
Wednesday, October 18
IU Women in IT Steering Committee October Meeting
2-3pm ET
We welcome all members of our community to actively participate, share ideas, and collaborate on initiatives that empower women and underrepresented genders who are part of the tech staff at Indiana University. Join us as we discuss ongoing projects, plan future events, and seek your valuable input on matters related to women+ in IT.
Thursday, October 19
Supercomputing For Everyone Series: Introduction to Deep Learning on Big Red 200
2-4pm ET
Register in advance
This workshop introduces IU faculty, staff, and students to Deep Learning on the resources UITS Research Technologies (RT) makes available to them at IU, namely the Big Red 200 supercomputer. Attendees will learn to create their first NeuralNet, RandomForest, and function optimizer with the Deep Learning software stack on Big Red 200. Detailed examples with documented code will be provided and discussed. No prior knowledge of these techniques is assumed. Knowledge of Unix and Python is needed for the hands-on exercises.
Monday, October 23 – Friday, October 27
EdCert course – CompTIA CASP+ (CAS-004) ($500)
8:30am-4:30pm ET
The CASP+ [CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner] covers the technical knowledge and skills required to conceptualize, engineer, integrate and implement secure solutions across complex environments to support a resilient enterprise. This course will expand on your knowledge of information security as you apply critical thinking and judgment across a broad spectrum of security disciplines to propose and implement sustainable security solutions that map to organizational strategies; translate business needs into security requirements; support IT governance and risk management; architect security for hosts, networks, and software; respond to security incidents; and more. This course also assists in the preparation for the CompTIA CASP+ CAS-004 certification exam.
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Learn about and register for upcoming trainings, infoshares, coffee hours, and more. Visit the ITCP calendar for the full list of events currently scheduled. Find recordings of previous infoshares by logging into the ITCP Kaltura page.
Mailings
- Apple Office Hours – October 11 & 12 [October 9]
- Exchange mailboxes phase 3.5: Additional account cleanup [October 12]
- Reminder Infoshare – KB to ServiceNow Knowledge Transition – October 16 [October 12]
- Vulnerability in curl and libcurl [October 13]
Stay current on the latest service changes, security concerns, and information sharing events. Visit the ITCP blog for a searchable archive of ITCP mailings.
Resources for IT Pros
On the IT Community Partnerships homepage, find the tools and support you need and connect with the IT community.
IT Community Partnerships (ITCP) supports IT professionals at Indiana University through timely communications of important IT information, opportunities to connect with the IT community, and data resources to aid in decision-making for their unit or service.