ITCP Weekly Update September 9 – 13 – IT Community Partnerships

ITCP Weekly Update September 9 – 13 – A weekly digest from IT Community Partnerships of what our IT colleagues need to know

In today’s issue
Announcements
Upcoming events
Mailings
Resources
Did you know

Announcements

No new announcements

Upcoming events
Tuesday, September 17
IU Women in IT – Candid Conversations for Caregivers
1-2pm ET
Registration required
Join us for a virtual, informal, and candid discussion about caregiving. Whether you care for someone who is elderly, disabled, a relative, a child, a spouse, or any other loved one, IUWIT recognizes that being a caregiver can be extremely stressful. In this virtual setting, we invite you to vent, share resources and experiences, and find support from other caregivers. All sessions are open to anyone of any gender.

Thursday, September 19
Supercomputing For Everyone Series: Intro to High Performance Computing (HPC)
2-4pm ET
Registration required
This workshop introduces IU students, faculty, and staff to HPC and the resources UITS Research Technologies (RT) makes available to them at IU to empower their research. This hands-on course will cover the basics of using IU’s supercomputing systems, from logging in to job creation and submission, as well as Research Desktop (RED).

Friday, September 20
Endpoint Management Services – coffee hours: IU Print
3-4pm ET
Endpoint Management Services (EMS) invites you to bi-weekly, one-hour Microsoft Teams coffee hours to discuss and field questions about the IU Common Build and IU Print. This session is focused on IU Print. This will be followed in two weeks with a session focused on macOS Common Build, then two weeks later on Windows Common Build. These session topics will continue to rotate every two weeks for the next several months to give you the opportunity to become more informed about these services and to ask questions.

Monday, September 23
IT Leadership Community Conversations on Leadership – Smoothing out the merge ramp: onboarding, fun?
2-3pm ET
We want to train new colleagues and help new hires get up to speed as quickly and easily as we are able. Help us crowdsource how we help our new team members get into our group and departmental routines. This IT Leadership Community sponsored series of informal discussions about leadership is open to anyone in the IU IT community. Whether you are a current, emerging, or future leader, these discussions are for you. Meeting Zoom link, recommended pre-work, and discussion questions are available at the event link.

Tuesday, September 24
EdCert course – Microsoft 365 Fundamentals
8:30am-4:30pm ET
[Registration is full. Please contact edcert@iu.edu to be placed on waitlist.]
This one-day course introduces Microsoft 365, an integrated cloud platform that delivers industry-leading productivity apps along with intelligent cloud services and world-class security. You’ll gain foundational knowledge on the considerations and benefits of adopting cloud services and the Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud model, with a specific focus on Microsoft 365 cloud service offerings. This course assists in the preparation for the MS-900 Microsoft 365 Fundamentals certification.

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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

No new mailings

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
On the IT Community Partnerships homepage, find the tools and support you need and connect with the IT community.

Did you know…
The IT Leadership Community (ITLC) is a group of like-minded professionals at Indiana University with leadership training (both formal and informal) and an interest in continuing the growth of leadership in themselves and other IT professionals at IU. View the calendar of their upcoming events. For more information about how ITLC can help you and how to become involved, contact itlc@iu.edu.

IT Community Partnerships (ITCP) supports those providing local UITS support 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.