IT Professionals, Instructure will be conducting routine maintenance on Canvas on Saturday, April 16, 2022, [1] and IU will be enabling a new ‘feature option’ in Canvas on Monday, May 9, 2022 [2]. Notable changes in the April 16, 2022, release include: Course Settings – Assignment Default Due Time Field Hierarchy: Course/Subaccount/Root account New Quizzes… Read more »
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Invite – Infoshare – Research Technologies Offerings
IT Professional Colleagues: Join us for an infoshare about technology 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 has to offer… Read more »
Google Update – All User Notification
IT Professionals, The email below will be sent to all Google at IU users on Thursday, April 7, informing them of upcoming changes to the Google Services offered at IU. The mailing mentions that no action is currently required but encourages users to review their storage presence in Google. We are making you aware in… Read more »
Apple Office Hours – April 13, 2022
IT Professionals: Apple would like to invite you to Office Hours on April 13, at 10am and 2pm ET. Both sessions will cover the same material but are provided to better meet people’s availability. Please note that this will take place during the Statewide IT conference as it is available to all higher education clients and… Read more »
Removal of Legacy Email Forwarding for iub.edu Domain
IT Professionals: As UITS plans for future improvements to email, legacy support for iub.edu domain email forwarding will be removed. While no one was issued an iub.edu email address, support has existed for years to forward any emails addressed to a recipient in the iub.edu domain to the recipient’s indiana.edu domain email address. On… Read more »
Notice of Remote Code Execution in Java Spring Framework
IT Professionals: On March 29, a pair of Remote Code Executions were discovered within the Spring Core Java library, dubbed “Spring4Shell” [1]. Currently, the vulnerability is only exploitable under limited non-default conditions. Please check the systems that you are responsible for that meet the following conditions. Java applications running on JDK 9 or higher; Java… Read more »
LockDown Browser security update – April 4
IT Professionals, On April 4, older versions (2.0.8.04 or earlier) of the LockDown Browser [1] Lab Edition [2] will fail on machines running Win7 and Win8 due to a vendor-managed security update. Respondus suggests updating to 2.0.8.05 (or later) ahead of the update in order to avoid issues with the LDB. Endpoint Management Services has… Read more »
Kaspersky Deemed Security Threat
IT Professionals: The University Information Security Office (UISO) would like to make you aware that the Federal Communications Commission has determined that security products from Kaspersky, a Russian maker of antivirus and other security software, pose an unacceptable risk to US national security [1] [2]. The UISO issued a similar advisory in 2017, when the Department of Homeland… Read more »
Update – Google Services Dashboard
IT Professionals, We would like to make you aware of updates to the Google Services Dashboard [1] that are now in production: The Individual list now shows everyone with 4GB of storage and above. The quota in Google is still planned for 5GB, but the lowered report threshold was requested to help monitor users who… Read more »
Reminder – EdCert Registration Deadlines for Spring 2022
Hello IT Professionals, Our spring EdCert professional training courses wrap up in June and include new course offerings from CertNexus, Microsoft, and CompTIA. Courses will be available only as an ONLINE option, participating remotely from your own workstation. Class meets from 9am to 4pm. Mar 29 – 31 CertNexus Cyber Secure Coder (CSC-210) CertNexus $500 Register by Mar 23 The stakes for software security are extremely… Read more »