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IFAS COMPUTER COORDINATORS (ICC)

February 11th 2022 REGULAR MEETING


A meeting of the ICC was held on Friday, February 11th, 2022, from the comfort of our own homes and/or offices! The meeting was chaired and called to order by Angel Perez at about 10:00 am.  

PRESENT: Twenty-three members participated.

Remote participants: David DePatie, Tammen Chase, Collin Ducote, Benjamin Beach, Dawarren Harrison, Francis Ferguson, Wayne Hyde, Roberet Daffron, DeWayne Hyatt, Dennis Brown, John Macias, Scott Owens, Jorge Hernandez, Philip Lazenby, Dan Cromer, Andrew Carey, Christian Leopold, Joe Gasper, Lee Thrasher, Javier Real, Roderick Tatom, Marion Douglas, Raichel White, Kenneth Schubel, John Wells, Alvaro Ibanez, Guillermo Black, Joel Parlin.


On-site participants:
Angel Perez

Recorded Video: Video will be available here after the meeting is completed.


NOTES: UF celebrates Black History Month, for those celebrating in Gainesville here is a link to some events.


Report from the chairman

Member news: Let's welcome Joshua Cook the new IT professional for Animal Science.  

Congratulations to Dewayne Hyatt (and Joe Gasper) the 2022 Superior Accomplishment Award Winners!!


Patching updates... (previous discussion)

Microsoft

January's patches are listed in the link. A reminder, Internet Explorer will end support on June 15, 2022, here is a link. Please note that each major update has it's own patch notes. A listing of all security updates can be found here.

There were several Microsoft Office updates to the Apple version, as recently as 01/13/2022. Teams is now a part of the Mac Office install. Remote Desktop has also seen a recent update, which is critical considering many people are using RDP to work from their office computers. Keep in mind that RDP will automatically update through the Apple Store app.

Also, if you are using OneDrive on your Mac, you may have to manually update to the latest version. (2/3/22)

Adobe

Acrobat, Reader, Connect, along with several other Adobe products, have updates here. Last updates were February 8th, 2022. Please be aware that Adobe ended Flash support on December 31st, 2020.

Java

Java updates were in January 18, 2022 for Java 8U321, for all major platforms. Release notes can be found here. 

Apple

There have been several Apple updates (February, 2022), including security updates and printer driver updates. This includes Catalina, Mojave (EOL November 30, 2021), Big Sur, and the new Monterey MacOS along with iOS updates.

SAS

SAS University Edition recently had an update. Please visit this link. SAS Renewal is also upon us.

JMP

JMP 16 is now available through the UF Software Licensing Division. It is free.

Adobe Renewal All Renewal orders must be submitted by Feb 23rd, 2022. Failure to renew your license by Feb 23rd, 2021 may result in the cancellation of the Adobe license.

Adobe is now available through the UF Software Licensing Division.

Sigmaplot

Sigmaplot 14.5 is now available through the UF Software Licensing Division.

ArcGIS

ArcGIS licensing is due for renewal. Please visit this website if you need any info about purchasing a license.

Two-Factor Authentication

https://it.ufl.edu/two-factor

https://it.ufl.edu/two-factor/support

GatorLinkAccount Management

https://account.it.ufl.edu/


UFIT news

Understanding Social Engineering, here is the link.

UF and Nvidia Co-Hosting Hackathon, here is the link.

MyIT support team, UFIT Microsoft Core Services (MCS) has been renamed to UFIT Collaboration Platforms Services


Videoconferencing and WAN discussion

Videoconferencing topics (previous discussion)

If you have faculty and/or staff that are still using Zoom for UF meetings, please encourage them to move to Teams. I'm not sure how it's been for everyone else, but having to repeat the security options for Zoom is tiring and not necessary when Teams is available.


Policy


Principle of “Least Privilege”- Admin rights Guideline/Policy discussion

ITSA Policy and UF IT Policy

I've found it difficult to find the ITSA Computing Policy and the UF IT Policies, so I will provide the links here and keep them here.

IMM - http://imm.ifas.ufl.edu

UF IT - http://www.it.ufl.edu/policies/

There will now be an ICC Policy Page that will keep track of policy and guidelines. These are not strict rules meant to dictate what must be done, but instead, a page of policies that are meant to help keep things running smoothly for each department and ITSA. You can find it here.

ITPAC meeting pending . I will provide an update at our next meeting.

Andrew Carey provided a link to fixing incorrectly named devices. You can find it here.


Projects


Please keep in mind that if you would like a TEAMs demostration, Joe and DeWayne are available to do so. Email either of them for more information. If you have not joined the Jurassic County Extension team yet, I encourage you to do so.

A projects channel was added to the ICC Team. Some have already posted there. I encourage everyone to post and interact.


Operations


IFAS IT Updates (previous discussion)

Chris and the team have updates for us.


Other Topics

ICC Virtual Retreat - 2022

 We should start planning for our 4th annual retreat, which should be held in person. The videos from our last retreat can be found here: Video 1 and video 2. Which was our first ever virtual retreat.


That's All Folks!

The meeting was adjourned at 11:25 am. Our next meeting will be Friday, March 11th 2022.