IT Professionals, On Thursday, April 6, IU will be upgrading the Top Hat external tool in Canvas to new version LTI 1.3 in courses being provisioned for Summer and Fall 2023. Upgrading now will allow instructors time to set up Top Hat in their upcoming courses. Instructors should wait until April 6 after 10am ET… Read more »
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OneNote blocks embedded files with dangerous extensions
From late April to late May, Microsoft will roll out a change to OneNote that prevents files on their Blocked list from being opened, similar to what is already done in Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. If a blocked attachment is clicked on, a dialog box will let them know that their administrator has blocked… Read more »
CCX-500 Phone Migrations
IT Professionals: As part of the migration from Skype for Business to Teams Calls, UITS is moving all CCX-500 phones from private IP addresses to public IP addresses on April 4. This change will require that we migrate about 800 accounts, including affected individual accounts, groups accounts, response groups and IP phones, from Skype to… Read more »
Kaltura grade syncing issues
IT Professionals, Due to grade syncing issues from Kaltura quizzes to Canvas between 12/20/2022 and 2/20/2023, UITS Learning Spaces Support is emailing Kaltura Quiz clients the message below. If you have questions, please contact cthelp@iu.edu or (812) 856-2020. –IT Community Partnerships on behalf of UITS Learning Spaces Support ~~~~~ Text of Direct Mailing ~~~~~ Subject: Kaltura grade… Read more »
Teams Calls Migration – Complex Accounts and Coffee Hours
IT Professionals: The migrations for simple accounts (individuals) to Teams Calls are complete, and the migrations for complex accounts (group accounts, response group members, and IP phone owners) have begun. To help with migration efforts, please refer to this list of remaining complex accounts not yet migrated. We will hold our next coffee hour on… Read more »
Disclosed Microsoft vulnerability – NTLM hash
IT Professionals: On March 14, 2023, Microsoft disclosed a vulnerability (CVE-2023-23397) that allows malicious actors to send specially-crafted emails that will allow them to steal credentials – specifically the NTLM hash of the victim. The NTLM hash can be used to authenticate as the victim to other IU services. This vulnerability requires no user interaction… Read more »
ITCP Weekly Update March 13 – 17
ITCP Weekly Update March 13 – 17 – 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 Kaltura Recording: Coffee Hour – MS Teams Calls Migration #2 The recording for the coffee hour on the MS Teams migration… Read more »
Canvas Maintenance: March 18
IT Professionals, On Saturday, March 18, between 8am and 12pm ET, Instructure (Canvas) will be performing a regularly scheduled monthly release to the IU Canvas instance. Included in this release is a new feature: Submit Assignment on Behalf of Student This will allow anyone with the ‘Teacher’, ‘Co-Instructor’, ‘TA’ or ‘Grader’ role in Canvas to… Read more »
Wireless student, IU Guest, and IoT roles will block SMTP port 25 outbound
IT Professionals: In continued efforts to protect the IU Network and decrease the amount of spam emails sent, on Thursday, March 16, 2023, Campus Networks will block SMTP/TCP port 25 outbound for the Student role, IU Guest role, and all IoT roles within the IU Public net on the wireless network. When computers become infected with malware,… Read more »
ITCP Weekly Update March 6 – 10
ITCP Weekly Update March 6 – 10 – 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 Did you know… Announcements Reminder – Active Directory – removal of Domain Users in groups As a reminder, on March 15, Enterprise… Read more »