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POC-IT Virtual Career Development Event Features Powerful Talks
On Nov. 4, Stanford alum and serial entrepreneur Stacy Kirk and Dr. Helen Hsu of Stanford CAPS offered two different but equally insightful perspectives on achieving IT career goals.
WIT Volunteers Support the 2020 Bay Area Science Festival
Six WIT community members recently volunteered at the Bay Area Science Festival, making a difference in the lives of future technology leaders.
Stanford’s Year Up Partnership Closes the Opportunity Gap
Since 2019, the initiative backed by Stanford’s CIO Council has inspired positive change—both for the interns and the staff members who host them.
New Process for Provisioning AFS User Volumes
Effective Monday, Nov. 23, 2020, new faculty and staff will no longer be auto-provisioned with AFS user volumes. If a new user needs a personal AFS user volume, a request can be submitted through a Help request.
Neurodiversity in IT Program Starts the Fiscal Year Inspired by New Leadership, Partnerships, and Plans for Growth
Michael Fox, CIO for LBRE, joins the Neurodiversity in IT Program as co-sponsor.
Support for Adobe Flash Player Ends Dec. 31
Microsoft is ending security updates and support for Adobe Flash on Microsoft Edge (both Chromium-based and legacy) and Internet Explorer 11 at the end of 2020.
Technology Powered Research: A Virtual Symposium
The campus IT community came together for a virtual symposium in which researchers talked about their work and the importance of IT to Stanford’s research mission.
Email Communications Encourage Mailman Housecleaning
It’s time to spread the word in your schools and units to encourage the deletion of old, unused Mailman email mailing lists and their archives.
New LDAP Security Requirements
To significantly improve the security for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) requests to Stanford’s Active Directory (AD), University IT will enforce LDAP channel binding and LDAP signing beginning Nov. 1, 2020.
Global IT Research from Gartner Available to Stanford Community
University IT is currently making the Gartner IT research library available to all Stanford faculty, students, and staff.
Update to New Remote Desktop License Server
University IT (UIT) stood up a new remote desktop license server and will decommission the old remote desktop license servers on Aug. 31, 2020. To avoid issues connecting to your remote desktop service, you must update your remote desktop servers to point to the new license server.
WIT/Year Up Mentoring Program Celebrates Mentees, Gears Up for Next Cohort
After cheering on the outgoing class of Year Up interns, WIT mentors are now preparing to meet the next cohort of interns/mentees at the upcoming WIT/Year Up Mentoring Program kickoff event.
