Colleagues: Back in February we first announced that it is increasingly important to make sure all Office clients are upgraded to the most recent version, Microsoft Office 365, by August 2022. We iterated how important it is to ensure all endpoints receive Microsoft features available exclusively to M365 installations. Legacy office versions will no longer… Read more »
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New Bookstore Portal Open for Textbook Ordering
Dear IT Professionals, As you may know, Indiana University has a new bookstore vendor, Follett Higher Education Group. The bookstore transition means that faculty and staff will use a new IU Bookstore portal to order their course materials for classes that start after May 23, 2022 and going forward. Bookmarks to our former vendor, Barnes… Read more »
Apple – May Office Hours
IT Professionals: Apple would like to invite you to Office Hours on May 4, at 2pm ET and May 5, at 10am ET. Both sessions will cover the same material but are provided at different times to best meet people’s availability. Please note that this is available to all higher education clients and not just… Read more »
Barcode Scanning Hardware and Software Solutions
IT Professionals: The Enterprise Business Systems Finance team is interested in learning what existing contracts and favored hardware is in use for barcode tagging and scanning at IU. The current hand scanners the Capital Asset Management group uses for inventory need replacing with a better option. If you or your department is currently using or… Read more »
Notice of Critical Vulnerability in Microsoft Remote Procedure Call Service
IT Professionals: On April 12, Microsoft announced fixes for a critical remote code execution vulnerability in their Remote Procedure Call Runtime Library [1]. A remote attack on this vulnerability does not require authentication or user interaction to exploit, and affects all current Windows versions. The University Information Security Office (UISO) would like to bring awareness… Read more »
Reminder – Infoshare – Google Migration Options
IT Professional Colleagues: Join us tomorrow for an infoshare about Google Storage migration options. Justin Zemlyak from Teaching and Learning Technologies and Adam Sweeny from Enterprise Microsoft Administration will discuss the available migration options as well as how to help support end users through the process. Additional members from the Google Storage Task Force will… Read more »
Reminder – Infoshare – Research Technologies Offerings
IT Professional Colleagues: Join us this coming Tuesday for an infoshare about advanced cyberinfrastructure offerings from UITS Research Technologies (RT). Robert Ping will discuss advanced computing options for researchers and educators who need more compute power, storage, visualization resources, or support than might be provided by other areas of UITS. Come find out what RT… Read more »
Invite – Infoshare – Google Migration Options
IT Professional Colleagues: Join us for an infoshare about Google Storage migration options. Justin Zemlyak from Teaching and Learning Technologies and Adam Sweeny from Enterprise Microsoft Administration will discuss the available migration options as well as how to help support end users through the process. Additional members from the Google Storage Task Force will also… Read more »
Examity Maintenance – April 16
IT Professionals, This Saturday, April 16, from 12–6am ET, Examity online proctoring will be unavailable while the vendor performs routine maintenance. As always, we will continue to provide timely communications concerning future updates. –IT Community Partnerships on behalf of The eLearning Services team ~~~~~ Today’s IT Pro Tip ~~~~~ For upcoming IT Pro events including… Read more »
Google Update – Notification to Users above 4GB Storage
IT Professionals, As mentioned in last week’s mailing, the message below will be sent to all users with more than 4GB of storage in Google My Drive on Thursday, April 14. –IT Community Partnerships ~~~~~ Text from Direct Message ~~~~~ Hello, You are receiving this message because you are using more than 4 GB of… Read more »