News
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.
The Gift of Feedback: 2020 IT Client Satisfaction Survey Results Now Available
In case you missed it, you now have access to the 2020 IT Client Satisfaction Survey results, which include feedback from more than 8,500 fellow community members, including 600 faculty, 3,500 students, and 4,400 staff.
POC-IT Holds Second Event with Guest Speaker, Sarah Soule
On May 13, the Stanford People of Color in Technology (POC-IT) affinity group held its second event with guest speaker, Sarah Soule.
Stanford Health Check Program Launches for Safe Return to Campus
To prepare for a safe return to campus, UIT helped to create Health Check, a new self-reporting tool that informs users whether or not they are cleared to return to campus each day.
Jon Russell to become SLAC CIO
Jon Russell will step into his new role as CIO of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory starting July 20.
