IT Professionals, The Campus Communications Infrastructure (CCI) team would like to remind you that on December 15, 2019, the Active Directory administrators will implement a cleanup of Stale Objects in the directory [1]. Specifically, this will target: Computer Objects in any OU that have not connected to the Domain in 180+ days Group Policy Objects that are… Read more »

IT Professionals, The eLearning Services team (eLS) wants to inform you of four upcoming events. First, Top Hat [1] will be performing system maintenance that will render the Top Hat Gradebook inaccessible from 10:00am – 1:00pm on Sunday, December 8. Additionally,  there is a Canvas [2] release scheduled for Saturday, December 21 between 8:00am and… Read more »

IT Professionals, IT Community Partnerships would like to invite you to the upcoming IT Water Cooler [1] event on Thursday, December 5. Please note the date has been changed since our original save the date was sent.  The IT Water Cooler is an opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with others interested in IU IT. We encourage you to attend in person at the Innovation… Read more »

IT Professionals, The Web Services Support & Enterprise Web Technical Services teams has contacted Webserve owners directly with the below text.  The communication is a reminder to migrate their PHP sites before December 23 to prevent the sites from being disabled.  Web sites that are not using PHP will continue to work until the March deadline unless they… Read more »

Hello IT Professionals, Our instructor has been very busy this fall with certification exams and vendor discussions.  To learn more about the certification vendor trends and ITCP’s plans for EdCert, please join our presentation at the upcoming WaterCooler on December 5th! Edcert will close out 2019 with two courses in December.  Registration is still open but act quickly to take… Read more »

IT Professionals: Microsoft has announced that it will be requiring binding and signing of LDAP queries for all Windows hosts in the January 2020 OS Security patch [1,2].  The Active Directory Servers at IU are currently monitoring client connections that will fail when the patch is applied. At the moment, that list of hostnames includes a… Read more »

IT Professionals, The eLearning Services team would like to notify you of two upcoming changes for Box at IU [1]. In order to simplify its language as well as the process to find regional-specific privacy policies and file privacy-related inquiries, Box has made several changes to their online Privacy Notice [2] which will be effective… Read more »

IT Professionals: You or your users may have systems reporting that their ESET Endpoint Antivirus license will expire on 11/29/19. The Leveraged Services team would like to make you aware that the current ESET license has been renewed and will expire on 11/29/20. Clients indicating an expiring license will be updated to the new date over the… Read more »

IT Professionals: As a follow-up to our Infoshare on the IT Pro database revision, IT People (https://itpeople.apps.iu.edu/), please find below a document link to detailed information that recaps how to manage your presence within IT People, covered in ITCP’s Inforshare. Box Shared Document: https://iu.box.com/s/tdjvrpgwehd2hsjo6dnoilz8hu9xxcq9 While we have done our best to structure and pre-populate, foundational IT… Read more »

IT Professionals: The eLearning Services team (eLS) want to inform you of two upcoming changes in Canvas and Zoom. There is a Canvas [1] update scheduled for Saturday, November 16 between 8:00am and 12:00pm EST.  Canvas will receive feature updates and bug fixes managed by the vendor (Instructure). Highlights in this update include: Updated Features:… Read more »