About the IT Partners Webinar Series

As you may have noticed, the annual IT Partners Conference, like many other in-person events was indefinitely postponed. Since many of us will be working remotely for the foreseeable future, the IT Partners Planning Team has shifted gears and is excited to announce that we'll be hosting a Zoom webinar series on various IT-related topics throughout the rest of the calendar year and beyond.

What'll we cover in these webinars?

Anything. Seriously. (Well, as long as it's IT-related.)

• Most webinars will be 30-45 minutes (depending on the content and speaker availability), including time for questions.
• If you're interested in presenting, let us know what you want to present on, how long you'll need, and we'll take care of all the logistics--scheduling, getting the word out, all of that fun stuff.
• If you have any ideas on topics or speakers, let us know, and we'll do the leg work.

Have ideas? Want to present at a webinar?

• Email the IT Partners Planning Team: Itpartners-plan@mit.edu
• Or hit us up on Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/mit-itpartners/signup

See http://calendar.mit.edu/event/itpartners_webinars for the next webinar

Join Dan Alexander, MIT Sloan Director of Workplace Technology, to get an overview of Microsoft Copilot, the generative AI web chat tool available to MIT Faculty, Staff and Students!

Agenda

• Generative AI resources
• GenAI Strategy for Sloan
• GenAI tools and Copilots
• Microsoft Copilot (AI chat)
  • Overview & Features
  • Demo
  • Tips & Tricks
  • Use cases at MIT Sloan
• Questions / Discussion

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Resources on AI

• MIT Sloan Teaching & Learning AI Hub
• LinkedIn Learning Generative AI content
• Microsoft: Fundamentals of Generative AI
• What is Microsoft Copilot (AI Chat)?
• Microsoft’s commitment to ethical AI

Leap into the Microsoft ecosystem this Leap Day!

Microsoft presents on new and upcoming features.

Agenda

• Welcome and Introductions
• Copilot Studio
• Teams Unified Communications
• PowerBI
• Azure Open AI
• Security

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The MIT Tableau User Group (MIT TUG) and IT Partners are proud to present a lunch and networking session to talk about all things Tableau, including:

• Some of the new (to us) features in Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server
• The new Tableau Creator License, including how to activate your license
• Tableau Prep Builder, the data cleaning tool that's part of the Tableau ecosystem and available to users with Creator licenses

Check out the slides, recording, and links on the MIT TUG wiki

Zoom. We all use it. Some of us use it well. Some of us, well, not so much.

Since we started using Zoom pretty much daily in the early days of the pandemic, Zoom has introduced a TON of new features and enhancements that you may not know about. We'll cover some of them in this webinar, hitting on things like sharing multiple screens and smart recordings, as well as Zoom Apps, Zoom Phones, and Zoom Rooms, oh my!

We'll also have some networking time, and for those of you who join in person, some lunch.

We hope you can Zoom in and Zoom-bruary with us!

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Want to review the tips and tricks we shared? Check out the slides or bookmarks in #2023-zoom-bruary

 Have questions? Ask on #2023-zoom-bruary

Do you feel like a Slacker some days? Do you Slackbot like champ? Do you dream in /remind? Huddle with your homies? Work those workflows?

Whether you answered "yes" or "no" to any of those questions, we know there's so much cool stuff you can do in Slack that it's hard to keep track or help your users get up to speed.

To help remedy that, members of the IT Partners community will be sharing some Slack tips and tricks at this virtual Slacktoberfest IT Partners webinar + networking event. Learn about features from slash commands to workflows and automated methods for loading users into a workspace, and a whole bunch in between. After the presentations, hang out and chat with other IT Partners members.

It's gonna be Slacktastic!

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Want to review the tips and tricks we shared? Check out #2022-slacktoberfest

As the fall term comes to a close, DLC staff are starting to prepare for the spring term. If you support academic staff, you’re likely to hear the word “Canvas” lobbed about. You might be wondering: What is Canvas? Why are people using it? How can I support staff in my DLC in their use of Canvas?

Join us to learn more about what the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS) offers and how it is used in DLCs.

• Meredith Davies from Open Learning will provide a tour of Canvas, highlight areas where IT providers might get or have questions, and point us to resources to support the use of Canvas across campus.
• Shallon Silvestrone, Anna Wright, and Sam McGurgan will share how Sloan is using Canvas. They’ll also give us a preview and timeline around the upcoming move from Canvas’s native quizzing tool (“Classic Quizzes”) to the “New Quizzes” tool.

Windows 11 is now officially released!

Come learn about the newest features, requirements, and recommendations from IS&T's End User Computing Team.

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Links:

• Windows 11 Landing Page in the MIT KB
• Keyboard shortcuts in Windows

Before you migrate your DLC to Windows 11:

1. What apps (outside of the standard MIT apps) are you using in your DLC, e.g., SolidWorks? Make sure you test them before rolling out Windows 11 out. There's a lot of backwards compatibility, but still test.

2. Can your computer even run Windows 11? Download the PC Health Check app to find out.

IS&T recently announced the availability of the Panopto secure cloud video platform, which allows anyone with an active MIT Touchstone account to record, edit, caption, store, stream, and share videos and multimedia presentations.

Elaine Mello from MIT Open Learning will give a tour of Panopto so you can help support Panopto users in your DLC.

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Certificate renewal period is upon us. Every July MIT staff, faculty and students must renew their personal certificates to ensure continued access to MIT protected websites and services. This brief presentation will give an overview of the process, including:

• updating your password beforehand
• demo of certificate installation for the Mac OS (for use by Safari and Chrome)
• a demo of certificate installation for Firefox on Windows
• deleting old certificates (and why you should (or, in rare cases, shouldn't!))
• common problems and their solutions

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Tableau is being upgraded and the IT Partners Planning Team is pleased to announce a webinar on new features, updates, and all sorts of cool things added between Tableau v2019.1 and v2020.2

MIT’s Tableau Server is being upgraded from v2019.1 to v2020.2 the evening of July 13^th, which is super-exciting! The new version of Tableau introduces lots of new (to us) features and functionality, including show/hide layout containers, a new data model and parameter actions, as well as feature improvements like dynamic parameters and tables with more than 16 columns (almost like Excel…but not really).

In short, lots of cool things.

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Join us to learn more about IS&T’s efforts to modernize MIT’s telephone infrastructure. Marco Gomes, Tim Riley and Marla Dolan from IS&T will:

• Provide a brief overview of the VoIP transitions and a project update on the move to cloud-based infrastructure
• Walk through the new tools to manage accounts and devices along with some new features that are available

The presentation will start promptly at 11:30. Pizza lunch and networking will be after the presentation.

Along with having an in-person session with pizza lunch from Bertucci's, we will also be streaming the session.

• If you would like to stream, register using the "stream remotely" option and we will send you a link before the session.
• Both options will allow you to ask questions during the Q&A time, but if you are remote, you'll need to ask questions via IT Partners Slack (join Slack).

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Come learn about the IT Partners Slack workspace and join us for some breakfast (and Halloween) treats!

• Meet other IT practitioners across the Institute.
• Join the conversation and help shape how MIT IT Partners can use Slack to better communicate within our community, and learn from and share with each other.
• Oh, and costumes are optional, but encouraged!

Come join us to learn about how IS&T uses ServiceNow.

• Kyle Fillipe will give IT Partners an inside look at what the IT Support Services teams see in ServiceNow, and how IS&T is leveraging the tool to help identify emerging trends, organize qualifying incidents, and work towards incident resolution.

• The goal is to bring IT Partners and IS&T into better alignment about how to continue to work together collaboratively to provide the best support possible to the MIT community.

The presentation will start promptly at 11:30. Pizza lunch and networking will be after the presentation.

Along with having an in-person session with pizza lunch from Bertucci's, we will also be streaming the session via WebEx. Both options will allow you to ask questions during the Q&A time.

When the students are away, the IT staff will network.

The IT Partners Planning Team is pleased to announce our upcoming breakfast networking event on Wednesday, March 27, 2019, 7:30 am-10 am.

Come join IT colleagues across the Institute on March 27^th for an informal breakfast and networking.

We'll be in E60-112 from 7:30-10 am along with breakfast foods and beverages (pastry, fruit, OJ, coffee, etc.).

Stop by on your way to the office and chat for a few minutes, or stick around for a bit longer.

Members of the IT Partners Planning Team will be on hand to talk about future events and directions for the group.

For more information about the event and to RSVP, please register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-it-partners-networking-breakfast-tickets-57530353837

Please RSVP in advance so we can order the right amount of food and drink

Note the location, E60-112 (http://whereis.mit.edu/?q=E60).

Come join us to learn about how software and licensing works at MIT.

• Emma Levett (Manager of Software Asset Management, IS&T) and Tim Yager (Manager of Endpoint Management, IS&T) will talk about role of the Software Asset Management group and using Endpoints (Jamf/Casper and SCCM) to roll out new software an updates to your organization.
• Oliver Thomas (Director of Community Partnerships, IS&T) will give an update on the recent changes with Dropbox licensing on campus.
• We'll also discuss ways to for IT Partners to provide input and collaborate with IS&T in these areas.

The presentation will start promptly at 11:30. Pizza lunch and networking will be after the presentation.

Along with having an in-person session with pizza lunch from Bertucci's, we will also be streaming the session via WebEx. Both options will allow you to ask questions during the Q&A time.

Details:

• When: Tuesday, November 13, 2018, 11:30am-1pm
• Where:

  • In-person in NE36-6002 (Note: Your MIT ID is REQUIRED to get into the building.)

  • Online via WebEx
• Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-it-partners-fall-2018-lunch-registration-52097066729