IT Update

February IT Leadership Team meeting

March 10, 2022

The IT Leadership Team met on February 23, and provided leaders with an update on the IT Job Family Redesign Project, expanding on last month’s discussion . Sarah...

Yale's Adobe Creative Cloud subscription

March 10, 2022

Yale faculty, students, and staff have access to an annual, renewable subscription to the Adobe Creative Cloud suite of applications. This includes well know graphical software such as Photoshop and...

Possible action required - Windows 7

February 10, 2022
Summary Windows 7 has been unsupported since January 14, 2020. Devices running Windows 7 no longer meet Yale Minimum Security Standards (MSS), and require an approved policy exception from the Information Security Office. On Tuesday, February 22...

Managers participate in a Job Family Redesign Working session and more at the IT Leadership Team meeting

February 10, 2022

The IT Leadership Team met on January 26 to review the following topics:

IT M&P Job Family Redesign Project

John Barden kicked off the discussion by highlighting that the Job Family Redesign, set to launch at the start of FY23, was initiated in response to Workplace Survey Feedback...

Café 25 opening soon

February 10, 2022

Yale Hospitality is getting ready to launch its latest eatery—Café 25, located in the lobby of 25 Science Park. Science Hill community members may enjoy breakfast and lunch options, including freshly brewed coffee and specialty drinks, homemade pastries, all-day snack varieties, two daily soup...

Workday Assistant to launch in March

February 10, 2022

The Workday interface will soon include Workday Assistant, a virtual chatbot that uses natural language processing to provide quick access to a wide range of commonly sought actions.

Workday Assistant is one of several features of a more extensive update called Workday Today that has...

Providing students a better experience finding their 1098T

February 10, 2022

Filing taxes can be complicated, time-consuming, and stressful. The same can be said for preparing tax documents for nearly 20,000 students, which Yale does annually in January.

This year Yale ITS and Accounts Receivable (AR) worked together within a very short time-frame to move the...

Retired and replaced: The Academic Record, a MOD PL/SQL web application

February 10, 2022

The Academic Record, a MOD PL/SQL web application using Oracle Reports run by many academic administrative departments on campus as a form of unofficial transcript and advisory tool for over 15 years has been retired and replaced by reporting tools Degree Audit and Jaspersoft. This furthers our...

Get cyber-fit in 2022 with 3 simple actions

February 10, 2022

Join the New Year, New You campaign to build your cyber-fitness. Get your cyber skills in shape and keep your personal information safe. Start your workout today with three simple actions:

Sign up to receive a...

Virtual IT Town Hall Recap - January 27, 2022

February 10, 2022

John opened the Town Hall by acknowledging the positive trends in public health data, in anticipation of the February 7 return to in-person teaching, learning, and working on campus.

Key topics covered at the meeting included:

Flexible Work Model (Ted Hanss and Sarah Hauswirth),...

IT Academy - February 2022 training and events

February 10, 2022

Hosted by the IT Staff Development team, Yale’s IT Academy consists of a robust speaker series , recommended online training offerings ,...

Staff movement, anniversaries, and new hires - February 2022

February 10, 2022

Congratulations to IT staff who recently celebrated a milestone, moved to a new role, or joined our organization in January 2022. Welcome or congratulate your colleagues using Ycards , Yale’s digital...

REMINDER: On February 28, Secure File Transfer Facility Service will retire

February 10, 2022
Summary

Yale ITS will retire the Secure File Transfer Facility service (files.yale.edu) on Monday, February 28, 2022.

Service users will need to...

Staff movement, anniversaries, and new hires - December 2021

January 13, 2022

Congratulations to IT staff who recently celebrated a milestone, moved to a new role, or joined our organization in December. Welcome or congratulate your colleagues using Ycards , Yale’s digital...

It's time for mid-year performance discussions

January 13, 2022

As a reminder, we have entered the development phase of ITS’s Performance Management cycle , including conducting a mid-year performance review.

Be sure to complete mid-year performance reviews for ITS...

IT Academy - January 2022 training and events

January 13, 2022

Hosted by the IT Staff Development team, Yale’s IT Academy consists of a robust speaker series , recommended online training offerings ,...

Be cyber fit in 2022

January 13, 2022

A new year equals a new opportunity to flex your cybersecurity awareness muscles.

Join the Information Security Office as we kick off a new year of cybersecurity awareness activities, events, and contests to increase your cyber fitness!

Want in?

Check out our...

What to expect with the ITS Job Family Redesign Project

January 13, 2022

ITS is preparing to launch a pilot, formally known as the Job Family Classification Redesign and Compensation Reform Project, to strengthen its position as a Workplace of Choice. When the project launches in June 2022, it will replace the current ITS Managerial & Professional (M&P)...

New quality assurance & testing standard now available

December 9, 2021

There is nothing quite so anxiety producing as learning about software bugs from users, the very people at the center of the design. Aargh!!! Software that does not function properly lowers productivity, taints the user experience, and costs money.

Ease your mind and delight your users!...

ITSM Core Process Update: Knowledge

December 9, 2021

The IT Service Management team will be introducing a newly designed Knowledge Management Process in the January timeframe, which will coincide with the ServiceNow platform upgrade to Rome .

The newly...

OpsView transition to Dynatrace on Dec. 20

December 9, 2021

On December 20, the Enterprise Monitoring service will officially decommission OpsView as part of the planned transition to Dynatrace. This concludes a yearlong initiative during which the Enterprise Monitoring team has been working with operations, networking, infrastructure, and application...

Recent MOR graduates reflect on their growth

December 9, 2021

In November 2021, five staff members from within and outside of central ITS graduated from the Maximizing Organizational Resources (MOR) program, including Apriel Biggs, Julienne Hadley, Taber Lightfoot, Lucas Swineford, and Leonard Welch. They represent the seventh cohort from Yale IT to...

ServiceNow platform to be upgraded in January

December 9, 2021

The Service Now Development and Support team is planning on upgrading the ServiceNow platform to the newest version, Rome, in the January timeframe.

The primary goal of the ServiceNow upgrade is to bring the platform forward to the most current version and take advantage of new features...

Secure File Transfer Facility Service retirement postponed

December 9, 2021
Summary

In response to service user requests, ITS is postponing the Secure File Transfer Facility service (files.yale.edu) retirement until February 2022 .

Service...

Power up your passwords & participate in fun competitions

December 9, 2021

Did you know that it only takes two seconds to crack an 11-character password that only uses numbers? But when you add upper and lowercase letters and special characters, it takes 41 years to crack? The Yale Information Security Office is pleased to launch their second awareness campaign, Use...

IT Academy - December 2021 training and sneak peek of 2022 speaker series topics

December 9, 2021

Hosted by the IT Staff Development team, Yale’s IT Academy consists of a robust speaker series , recommended online training offerings ,...

Staff movement, anniversaries, and new hires - November 2021

December 9, 2021

Congratulations to IT staff who recently celebrated a milestone, moved to a new role, or joined our organization in November. Welcome or congratulate your colleagues using Ycards , Yale’s digital...

Updates to Workday, Graduate Student Funding, and Job Family Redesign Discussed at Leadership Team Meeting

December 9, 2021

The IT Leadership Team met on November 17 to review the following topics:

The New Workday Experience

Alex Barreuther, HCMS Solutions Junior Architect, announced a forthcoming update to Workday called Workday Today. With this enhancement, Yale community members will benefit from an...

Introducing QGenda – New enterprise provider scheduling application

December 9, 2021

QGenda, a cloud-based provider scheduling application, is being introduced to support physicians within Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) and Yale Medicine (YM). The adoption of this application will provide a digital, single source of truth to view and update on-call schedules. Through the...

Upcoming changes to the NetID activation and reset process

November 11, 2021

On Thursday, November 18, the Yale Information Security Office (ISO) will release an updated version of the NetID Management Tool.

Members of the Yale community will notice several changes to the NetID activation and password reset processes:

Instead of asking for security questions...

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