Mailings

IT colleagues: CrowdStrike, IU’s Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) solution for servers, will have prevention policies provisioned in production environments on May 7, 2024. These prevention policies have already been enabled in the test environments since January 31, 2024. Enabling prevention policies for CrowdStrike is essential for providing servers with real-time protection from malware and other threats…. Read more »

IT colleagues: As a follow-up to our Dell Client Roadmap sessions held in February, Dell would like to let you know that the new laptops and desktops have been updated on the Dell Premier site at buy.iu.edu. Please reach out to Dell Representatives Kim Grant or Jamie Stevens if you have any questions. –IT Community Partnerships… Read more »

IT colleagues,  On April 1, the Microsoft 365 Administrators archived Teams that were not renewed by March 31. These Teams will be archived for 90 days (until June 30, 2024) and then deleted. A list of impacted Teams is available for your review.  Owners of an effected Team can restore it themselves by June 30,… Read more »

IT colleagues, This notification is for a Linux vulnerability, and does not apply to Windows or macOS devices. Malicious code has been discovered in versions 5.6 and 5.6.1 of XZ Utils, commonly found in many Linux distributions [1]. This code interferes with the authentication mechanism for sshd and could allow a remote attacker to gain… Read more »

IT colleagues, On Wednesday, February 21, the Microsoft 365 Administrators contacted all registered Microsoft Teams owners and co-owners requesting renewal of their teams created or registered before April 1, 2023. An additional reminder of the deadline was sent on March 25. The text of the direct mailing is below. This ensures that each team is… Read more »

IT colleagues: On April 11, 2024, eLearning Services administrators will deactivate Zoom accounts of former students, former staff, and retired staff. Affected clients will be notified directly and can be identified here. If you believe one of the affected clients should maintain access, please contact cthelp@iu.edu prior to April 11, 2024. The following message was… Read more »

IT colleagues:  The Jamf Pro service maintained by Endpoint Management Services shows many Apple devices have not checked into our Jamf Pro service in a year or more. Devices that do not check in can affect the performance of the Jamf Pro service, and also represent a cost when renewing our Jamf Pro license.  Please… Read more »

IT colleagues, Starting today, Datacenter Operations has changed the phone number from which they will contact groups after hours for services and address outages. The new 812-855-9950 number should be added to your phone’s allowed list for any sort of call screening or “do not disturb” feature. The existing 812-855-9910 number has been widely used and saved in… Read more »

IT colleagues:  On March 22, 2024, eLearning Services Administrators will be setting a 0-byte quota on all Google Paid Shared Drives that have not been renewed for the 2024/2025 licensing year. This will disable the ability to add new or edit existing data but will allow the data to be downloaded. Any shared drives that… Read more »

IT colleagues: Over the next several months, door access for IU buildings managed in DNA Fusion are transitioning to CS Gold Access. This is taking place in phases across all campuses according to the schedule at Access Consolidation Schedule -IU-ALL.xlsx.  For more, see Transition from DNA Fusion to CS Gold Access (requires authentication). This project… Read more »