On Monday, May 13 at 9:00am, additional security measures will be updated for Duo.

• SMS codes will now expire after five minutes.
• HOTP (HMAC-authenticated one-time passcodes) will be disabled so only TOTP (time-based one-time passcodes) will be allowed for use within Duo.
• Voice, push, and recovery codes will still be supported and will not change.

Users with the Duo app version 4.49.0 or older will not be able to use TOTP until they update the app, but Duo push will not be impacted. 

On Sunday, May 19, 2024 the shared SQL Server production systems IOWASQLHOST1, IOWASQLHOST2, and IOWASQLHOST3 will be upgraded from SQL Server 2014 to SQL Server 2019. The new SQL Server 2019 systems will have network connectivity restricted to ITS data centers and, on request, static IP addresses on wired campus building machines.  These SQL Server databases will no longer be open to campus wireless or VPN. 
Additionally, some clients may need to update their connection strings to use the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the database server (e.g. IOWASQLHOST1.iowa.uiowa.edu). For more information about this migration, please review SQL Server 2014 Shared Hosting Refresh FAQs or contact the SQL Server DBA team at ITS-SQL-Help@uiowa.edu.

On Tuesday, May 14, 2024, ITS will modify the uiowa.edu email security (DMARC) configuration from Quarantine %=50 to Quarantine %=75. More information is available at: https://its.uiowa.edu/support/article/128256.