Service News Category: MI Notifications
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The UW Microsoft sign in experience is changing
May 13, 2021
Over the next month, your Microsoft sign in experience for the UW will change to be simpler while remaining secure. Check out the new experience rolling out next month. If you encounter an error when you sign in to Microsoft on June 17, check out the troubleshooting guide to learn what to do. General communication about this change is being sent via UW Insider and IT Connect News for Students newsletters, with more technical information planned for Computing Directors, techsupport…
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SMBv1 disabled on NETID domain controllers
October 4, 2017
We disabled SMBv1 on all domain controllers for the NETID Windows domain. Over the past couple months, we reached out to customers with resolvable client hostnames which were using SMBv1 to connect to the NETID domain controllers to let them know about this planned change. For somewhat obvious reasons, we didn’t want to publicize that we were still supporting a vulnerable protocol, which is why this change notification is happening after the fact. What and When The SMBv1 protocol was…
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NETID domain controller upgrades: 8/2 – 8/28/2017
July 21, 2017
Several changes are planned for the NETID domain service. What: All NETID domain controllers (DCs) will be replaced with new servers running Windows Server 2016. An additional design change will happen during this process of relying on InCommon CA issued certificates for LDAPS access, replacing the existing design that leverages UW CA issued certificates. When: 8/2/2017: First new WS2016 DC promoted 8/7 – 8/9/2017: 4 new WS2016 DCs promoted and 4 existing WS2012R2 DCs demoted, handled in a +1 new…
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LAPS – Local Administrator Password Solution
April 21, 2017
A new capability is available to delegated OU customers. What and When: As of yesterday, a new capability is available allowing automated management of a Windows computer local admin password. This includes delegated password escrow. What you need to do: Use of this capability is optional and requires you to take action if you want to leverage it Good management of your computer local admin passwords mitigates a key risk in the Microsoft ecosystem. This mitigation reduces…
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Consistent group naming in Microsoft Infrastructure services
April 10, 2017
A change in how group names are populated will occur to ensure a more consistent user experience across service interfaces which leverage Microsoft Infrastructure (MI). What and When: On April 26th, we’ll be making a couple changes related to group naming in Microsoft Infrastructure (MI). These changes may take as much as a day to propagate to all interfaces. Some application interfaces that leverage MI for groups use the ‘display name’ value and others use the ‘identifier’ value…
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Delegated OU role group changes
March 29, 2017
The role groups for delegated OUs will be changing. Delegated OU role groups are those groups which Microsoft Infrastructure provides to delegate permissions in your delegated OU. What and When: Later today March 29th, 2017, there will be two changes to the delegated OU role groups. First, all delegated OU role groups will be moving to a new stem. They will move from the u_windowsinfrastructure stem to the u_msinf_delou stem. This is being done to reflect the service…
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Microsoft LAPS schema and permission changes
March 28, 2017
The NETID Active Directory will have minor changes to set the stage to add support for LAPS, a Microsoft provided capability, for delegated OU customers. What and When: On Friday March 31, 2017, the Microsoft Infrastructure (MI) team will be making a change to the NETID domain in preparation to implement Microsoft’s Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS). The first change is a schema updates to allow two additional attributes on computer objects in the domain. The second…
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Microsoft Infrastructure to add Preferred Name data: 3/1/2017
February 17, 2017
The Microsoft Infrastructure service will add the Preferred Name data source to its existing identity data. What and When On Wednesday March 1 2017, Microsoft Infrastructure will replace its existing identity data agent with a new one. The new system will add the Preferred Name data source to the existing name algorithm, giving Preferred Name preference over other data sources. We will also drop our specialized character casing for non-personal UW NetIDs like Shared UW NetIDs. These changes…
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Entra ID application identities: risk mitigation
February 9, 2017
What is happening and when: This notice is to make you aware that UW-IT’s Entra ID service design is changing fundamentally, providing risk mitigation processes as well as new capabilities. On Wednesday, February 15, UW-IT will change its approach to Entra ID application identities to make them easier for users to obtain and use, while addressing potential risk to UW confidential data. The UW-IT Microsoft Infrastructure service will: Monitor for risks of integration with UW confidential data Disable…
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Azure Active Directory application identity availability
January 11, 2017
This change is being rescheduled to allow for further review and testing. The new release date is planned for February 15th, and a reminder will be sent before the change is made. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this change, Azure Active Directory, or managing confidential data in any of your systems, please let us know by contacting help@uw.edu. Thank you. Brian