ITCP Weekly Update November 4 – 8 – A weekly digest from IT Community Partnerships of what our IT colleagues need to know

In today’s issue
Announcements
Upcoming events
Mailings
Resources
Did you know

Announcements

• Kaltura Recording: Coffee Hours – EMS BeyondTrust – November 1

The recording of the coffee hours by Endpoint Management Services on BeyondTrust, originally presented on November 1, 2024, is now live.

Upcoming events

Monday, November 11 – Friday, November 15
EdCert course – Microsoft 365 Endpoint Administrator
8:30am-4:30pm ET
[Registration is full.  Please contact edcert@iu.edu to be placed on waitlist.]
In this course, students will learn to plan and execute an endpoint deployment strategy using contemporary deployment techniques and implementing update strategies. The course introduces essential elements of modern management, co-management approaches, and Microsoft Intune integration. It covers app deployment, management of browser-based applications, and key security concepts such as authentication, identities, access, and compliance policies. Technologies like Azure Active Directory, Azure Information Protection, and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint are explored to protect devices and data. This course will assist in the preparation for the MD-102 certification exam.

Wednesday, November 13
IT Leadership Community reading and discussion groups – ITLC Book Club: Disability Visibility
3-4pm ET
Session 2 of 7 of the ITLC book club discussion of Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice Wong, with discussion facilitated by Aaron “Fish” Miller. Book IUCAT link, meeting Zoom link, and weekly reading assignments are available at the event link.

Thursday, November 14
IU Women in IT – Candid Conversations for Caregivers
10-11am ET
Registration required
Join us for a virtual, informal, and candid discussion about caregiving. Whether you care for someone who is elderly, disabled, a relative, a child, a spouse, or any other loved one, IUWIT recognizes that being a caregiver can be extremely stressful. In this virtual setting, we invite you to vent, share resources and experiences, and find support from other caregivers.  All sessions are open to anyone of any gender.

Thursday, November 14
Supercomputing For Everyone Series: Advanced Topics in Deep Learning
2-4pm ET
Registration required
This intermediate-level Storage Options and Data Management Best Practices workshop will discuss techniques and best practices for administering shared access to data, ensuring continuity of access, securing research data, and establishing a data lifecycle management policy. This workshop is intended for power users, lab PIs, and collection managers actively involved in generating, managing, and/or administering data. Topics covered include migrating data from cloud providers to on-premises IU digital storage (and vice-versa), best practices for storing and managing data, the distinction between backing up and archiving, and how to manage permissions for a data share. Registration information and session prerequisites and information are available at the above event link.

Friday, November 15
Endpoint Management Services – coffee hours: macOS Common Build
3-4pm ET
Endpoint Management Services (EMS) invites you to the final one-hour Microsoft Teams coffee hour to discuss and field questions about the IU Common Build and IU Print. This session is focused on macOS Common Build. These sessions provide you the opportunity to become more informed about these services and to ask questions. This is the last session this calendar year.

Monday, November 18
IT Leadership Community Conversations on Leadership – To do all the work yourself or not – delegation and building trust within your team
2-3pm ET
Discussion will cover the up and downs of delegation. You can help crowdsource team trust building, how best to distribute workloads, and improving professional development. This IT Leadership Community sponsored series of informal discussions about leadership is open to anyone in the IU IT community. Whether you are a current, emerging, or future leader, these discussions are for you. Meeting Zoom link, recommended pre-work, and discussion questions are available at the event link.

Wednesday, November 20
IT Leadership Community reading and discussion groups – ITLC Book Club: Disability Visibility
3-4pm ET
Session 3 of 7 of the ITLC book club discussion of Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice Wong, with discussion facilitated by Aaron “Fish” Miller. Book IUCAT link, meeting Zoom link, and weekly reading assignments are available at the event link.

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Learn about and register for upcoming trainings, infoshares, coffee hours, and more. Visit the ITCP calendar for the full list of events currently scheduled. Find recordings of previous infoshares by logging into the ITCP Kaltura page.

Mailings

• Infoshare Reminder – Dell 2025 client hardware rebranding overview November 5 [November 4]
• Apple Office Hours – November 6 & 7 [November 4]
• Announcing Data Integration Community of Practice [November 6]

Stay current on the latest service changes, security concerns, and information sharing events. Visit the ITCP blog for a searchable archive of ITCP mailings.

Resources
On the IT Community Partnerships homepage, find the tools and support you need and connect with the IT community.

• ITCP Blog
• ITCP Events Calendar
• IT People
• IT People documentation
• Handbook for those providing local UITS support

Did you know…
If you have a recommendation for an entry in the Did you know section of the ITCP Weekly Newsletter, please send it to itcp@iu.edu.

IT Community Partnerships (ITCP) supports those providing local UITS support at Indiana University through timely communications of important IT information, opportunities to connect with the IT community, and data resources to aid in decision-making for their unit or service.

ITCP Weekly Update October 28 – November 1 – A weekly digest from IT Community Partnerships of what our IT colleagues need to know

In today’s issue
Announcements
Upcoming events
Mailings
Resources
Did you know

Announcements

• Pearson Tools Maintenance November 22 – 23

All MyLab, Mastering, and Revel courses, whether accessed directly or via the Access Pearson integration in Canvas, will be unavailable from 10pm on Friday, November 22 to 10am on Saturday, November 23 due to vendor-scheduled maintenance.

Upcoming events

Tuesday, November 5
Infoshare: Dell 2025 client hardware rebranding overview
3-4pm ET
Dell will host an infoshare about the Dell client hardware rebranding occurring at the start of 2025. Our hosts will be Dell representative Jamie Stevens, and Dell client specialist Mike Patterson.  This session will not be recorded.

Wednesday, November 6
Supercomputing For Everyone Series: Storage 201: Data Management and Administration
2-4pm ET
Registration required
This workshop is a follow-up for IU faculty, staff, and students to Intro to Deep Learning on the Big Red Supercomputer taught by UITS Research Technologies (RT). Attendees will take a deeper dive into some problems that can be addressed with Deep Learning on Big Red 200. These topics include document similarity, custom GPU programming, and function optimization. These specific topics will illustrate general techniques that are widely applicable. No prior knowledge of these techniques is assumed. Registration information and session prerequisites and information are available at the above event link.

Wednesday, November 6
IT Leadership Community reading and discussion groups – ITLC Book Club: Disability Visibility
3-4pm ET
Beginning Wednesday, November 6, the ITLC book club will be discussing Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice Wong, with discussion facilitated by Aaron “Fish” Miller. Book IUCAT link, meeting Zoom link, and weekly reading assignments for the 7 sessions are available at the event link.

Wednesday, November 6 or Thursday, November 7
Vendor Event – Apple Office Hours
November 6 2-3:30pm ET
November 7 Noon-1:30pm ET
Apple invites you to attend an Office Hour session on either Wednesday, November 6 at 2pm ET or Thursday, November 7 at 12pm ET. The sessions will cover the same material and are being made available to all higher education clients; these are not exclusive to IU. The November Office Hours will cover how to best provision Apple devices in a password-less environment for a great user experience, followed by information on some successful strategies defending Apple deployments from all manners of threat actors. Each session is one hour including Q&A on the main topics, followed by a 30-minute Q&A session on any Apple-related topics. Apple Webex meeting links for each date will be provided in upcoming ITCP mailing.

Monday, November 11 – Friday, November 15
EdCert course – Microsoft 365 Endpoint Administrator
8:30am-4:30pm ET
[Registration is full.  Please contact edcert@iu.edu to be placed on waitlist.]
In this course, students will learn to plan and execute an endpoint deployment strategy using contemporary deployment techniques and implementing update strategies. The course introduces essential elements of modern management, co-management approaches, and Microsoft Intune integration. It covers app deployment, management of browser-based applications, and key security concepts such as authentication, identities, access, and compliance policies. Technologies like Azure Active Directory, Azure Information Protection, and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint are explored to protect devices and data. This course will assist in the preparation for the MD-102 certification exam.

Wednesday, November 13
IT Leadership Community reading and discussion groups – ITLC Book Club: Disability Visibility
3-4pm ET
Session 2 of 7 of the ITLC book club discussion of Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice Wong, with discussion facilitated by Aaron “Fish” Miller. Book IUCAT link, meeting Zoom link, and weekly reading assignments are available at the event link.

Thursday, November 14
IU Women in IT – Candid Conversations for Caregivers
10-11am ET
Registration required
Join us for a virtual, informal, and candid discussion about caregiving. Whether you care for someone who is elderly, disabled, a relative, a child, a spouse, or any other loved one, IUWIT recognizes that being a caregiver can be extremely stressful. In this virtual setting, we invite you to vent, share resources and experiences, and find support from other caregivers.  All sessions are open to anyone of any gender.

Thursday, November 14
Supercomputing For Everyone Series: Advanced Topics in Deep Learning
2-4pm ET
Registration required
This intermediate-level Storage Options and Data Management Best Practices workshop will discuss techniques and best practices for administering shared access to data, ensuring continuity of access, securing research data, and establishing a data lifecycle management policy. This workshop is intended for power users, lab PIs, and collection managers actively involved in generating, managing, and/or administering data. Topics covered include migrating data from cloud providers to on-premises IU digital storage (and vice-versa), best practices for storing and managing data, the distinction between backing up and archiving, and how to manage permissions for a data share. Registration information and session prerequisites and information are available at the above event link.

Friday, November 15
Endpoint Management Services – coffee hours: macOS Common Build
3-4pm ET
Endpoint Management Services (EMS) invites you to the final one-hour Microsoft Teams coffee hour to discuss and field questions about the IU Common Build and IU Print. This session is focused on macOS Common Build. These sessions provide you the opportunity to become more informed about these services and to ask questions. This is the last session this calendar year.

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Learn about and register for upcoming trainings, infoshares, coffee hours, and more. Visit the ITCP calendar for the full list of events currently scheduled. Find recordings of previous infoshares by logging into the ITCP Kaltura page.

Mailings

• Infoshare invite – Dell 2025 client hardware rebranding overview November 5 [October 28]
• BeyondTrust coffee hours – November 1 [October 30]
• Zoom Minimum Version Policy – November 2 [October 30]

Stay current on the latest service changes, security concerns, and information sharing events. Visit the ITCP blog for a searchable archive of ITCP mailings.

Resources
On the IT Community Partnerships homepage, find the tools and support you need and connect with the IT community.

• ITCP Blog
• ITCP Events Calendar
• IT People
• IT People documentation
• Handbook for those providing local UITS support

Did you know…
As previously announced, IU’s enterprise license for VoiceThread, a multimedia presentation and discussion app that plugs into Canvas, expires on December 31, 2024. However, VoiceThread will continue to be available as an opt-in tool that can be ordered via the IU eTexts program.  For more information on this, and upcoming deadlines for spring 2025 usage, see About the VoiceThread Retirement.

IT Community Partnerships (ITCP) supports those providing local UITS support at Indiana University through timely communications of important IT information, opportunities to connect with the IT community, and data resources to aid in decision-making for their unit or service.