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IFAS COMPUTER COORDINATORS (ICC)April 7th 2022 REGULAR MEETINGA meeting of the ICC was held on Thursday, April 7th, 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. Recorded Video: Video will be available here after the meeting is completed. NOTES: Report from the chairmanMember news: Let's Welcome Chemon Velazquez, the A/V Specialist for Animal Sciences Patching updates... (previous discussion) Microsoft March'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 03/15/2022, Version 16.59. 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. (3/15/22) Adobe Acrobat, Reader, Connect, along with several other Adobe products, have updates here. Last updates were March 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 (3/30/2022), 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. JMP JMP 16 is now available through the UF Software Licensing Division. It is free. 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/support GatorLinkAccount Management UFIT newsVideoconferencing and WAN discussionVideoconferencing topics (previous discussion) If you have faculty and/or staff that are still using Zoom for UF meetings, please encourage them to try out Microsoft Teams. PolicyITSA 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. ProjectsPlease 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. OperationsIFAS IT Updates (previous discussion) Chris and the team have updates for us. Other TopicsICC In-Person Retreat - 2022 The ICC 2022 retreat has been scheduled for June 1st and June 2nd, 2022.(more information to come) 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 11:20 am. Our next meeting will be Friday, May 13th 2022.
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