Mailings

IT Professionals: Apple would like to invite you to Office Hours on Wednesday, May 10, at 2pm ET or Thursday, May 11, at 10am ET. Join Systems Engineer Mike Kimmel for a session on two topics: Unified Logging: All Apple devices now use the same logging system. This session will provide an overview of what… Read more »

Dear colleagues, For the past few months, the UITS Communications Planning and Implementation team has been updating IU’s telephony system, moving from Microsoft Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams Calls. This change was necessary due to Microsoft Skype for Business’s impending end-of-life date of January 2024. By moving to Microsoft Teams Calls, we expect to reduce… Read more »

IT Professionals, UITS administrators have begun a migration from Cisco IronPorts to the Microsoft Exchange Online Protection. As part of this migration, there will be several changes to email forwarding in May, most notably: 1. Removal of “Forward email” option from access.iu.edu On Wednesday, May 16, the Identity Management Team will remove the “Forward email”… Read more »

IT Professionals: On April 19, Jason Abels and Aria Greenberg from the University Information Security Office discussed and demonstrated the new Qualys vulnerability reports and dashboards that went live on March 1. Unfortunately, we won’t be able to post the recording of the infoshare, but we would still like to provide a quick summary of… Read more »

IT Professionals, Following our notice last year, all remaining videos in the Microsoft Stream Classic Portal will be migrated to Stream (on SharePoint) in early June 2023. Following the migration, Content owners will be able to find their files in their personal OneDrive, under a new folder named “Stream Migrated Videos.” There will be a… Read more »

IT Professionals, We are reaching out to let you know that on May 6, 2023, Zoom will be enforcing a new minimum version as outlined in their Quarterly Software Lifecycle Policy. These clients* are associated with a device or devices running an older version of Zoom that will not be supported under this policy. Clients… Read more »

Colleagues, As mentioned in a previous mailing, IU has rolled out new security measures to prevent individual email accounts from sending unusually high numbers of emails. These changes were implemented in response to recent phishing attacks where attackers gained access to IU email accounts to send phishing and scam emails. New information about group accounts has… Read more »

Colleagues: The following announcement will be sent to current IU Print clients later this week. The point is that as of the next fiscal year, IU Print will be a VPIT-funded service for existing clients with no recharge other than expenses related to the printer/multifunction device itself. The adoption costs have been a barrier to… Read more »

IT Professionals: Join us Wednesday, April 19, at 3PM ET for an infoshare from the University Information Security Office. Jason Abels and Aria Greenburg will discuss and demonstrate the new Qualys vulnerability reports and dashboards that went live on March 1. Please Register for the infoshare in advance. What: Infoshare – Qualys Vulnerability Reports and Dashboards Presenters: Jason… Read more »

IT Professionals, The Enterprise Web Technical Services (WebTech) team will be making changes to the Sitehost PHP offerings in the coming months. Sitehost owners, developers, proxies, and contacts were sent the message below on April 4. If you have questions, please contact Tier 2 Support (Web Services Support) at sct2@iu.edu. –IT Community Partnerships on behalf of The… Read more »