ICC Meeting:

IFAS COMPUTER COORDINATORS (ICC)

September 10th 2021 REGULAR MEETING

A meeting of the ICC was held on Friday, September 10th, 2021, 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: Wendy Williams, Wayne Hyde, John Wells, Marvin Knewman, Kevin Hill, Chris Leopold, Joel Parlin, Philip Lazenby, Karen Porter, Andrew Carey, Scott Owens, Lee Thrasher, Javier Herrera, Marion Douglas, Joe Gasper, Jorge Hernandez, Jonathon Chirino, Raichel White, Russell Hunter, John Macias, Brian Hurt, DeWayne Hyat , Joe Gasper, Dennis Brown, Dan Cromer, Lawrence Hua, James Canter, Benjamin Thomas, Umar Javed, Molly Davis

On-site participants: Angel Perez

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

NOTES: The is first meeting with a new Chair since June 2015, Microsoft Ignite November 2-4, 2021.

Report from the chairman

Member news: Lets welcome Ronald Brown, to the ICC family. He is the new IT person at TREC.

Patching updates... (previous discussion)

Microsoft

September's patches are listed in the 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 8/11/2021. 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. (9/1/21)

Adobe

Acrobat, Reader, Connect, along with several other Adobe products, have updates here. Last updates were September 9th. Please be aware that Adobe ended Flash support on December 31st, 2020.

Java

Java updates were in July 20th for Java 8U301, for all major platforms. Release notes can be found here .

Apple

There have been several Apple updates (August 11th), including security updates and printer driver updates. This includes High Sierra, Catalina and Mojave, along with iOS updates. Apple is having an event on September 14th for those interested, here is the link

SAS

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

JMP

JMP 15 is now available through the UF Software Licensing Division. It is free. JMP 16 is now available from SAS.

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

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

Content Management System (CMS) (previous discussion)

No new gnews (is good gnews, with Gary Gnew)

Updates as available.

Last month's IT@UF Meeting Notes

You can now view the notes from each meeting at this link.

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.

ITSA - 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 will be meeting on April 23rd. 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.

-Remove ICC Listserve (this was discussed about a year ago).

-Latest MS printing vulnerability and potential impact of the fix

-UFIT enabling modern authentication