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The vendor’s website contains useful information on how to manage Box files and folders. Start with the following: 
Box has announced that they will no longer support the Box Sync application beginning in December 2026. Install Box Drive, or transition from Box Sync, today.Setting up Box sync will allow you to select folders in Box that will automatically synchronize with your computer. To get started:
You will need to download the content from your previous file sharing service, and then upload the content to your Cornell Box account. For more information see Box’s documentation, Upload Your Content to Box.
If you are part of Weill Cornell Medicine, do not click Continue. Instead, click the appropriate link for NY or Qatar in the box below, titled Weill Cornell Medicine Colleagues. Go to cornell.app.box.com. Click Continue. You will be directed to CUWebLogin.
If you already have a personal Box account that you created using your netid@cornell.edu email address, you have two options:
If you receive an email invitation to collaborate in Box, but when you try to accept the invitation by signing in, the shared content isn’t there, it may be due to someone inviting your Cornell email alias, instead of your netid@cornell.edu address. This issue can start when you receive an…
If you choose to forward your email, you do so at your own risk.Everything on this page could be placed in boxes with exclamation points and other attention-getting devices. But, at a bare minimum, please read this: If you choose to forward your email, you do so at your own risk.Some (many)…
OverviewFaculty, staff, postdocs, graduate and professional students, and retirees are initially set up with Microsoft 365 email accounts. By default, you access these accounts through an email client like Outlook, Apple Mail, or Outlook on the Web.Undergraduates begin at Cornell with Google…
View Full Headers in Outlook for WindowsOpen the message.Click the File tab on the message window (not the main Outlook window).Click Info in the left column (it may already be selected).Click Properties.The Internet headers section of the Properties …
Over a half million messages are sent to and through the Cornell email system every day. That system includes Office 365, G Suite, and Lyris for e-lists. In addition, email often originates outside of Cornell’s system, or is routed outside of our system for final delivery.
Cornell faculty, staff, and trustees are eligible for Cornell’s Optional Email Alias service.Only email addresses with “@cornell.edu” are eligible.
Sometimes many different web sites share one email provider. This is the case with Web.com. So, if Cornell email is temporarily blocked from any one of Web.com’s clients, it is blocked from all. If you see a message like the following, it means your message has been blocked. ----- The following…
By default, the Microsoft 365 email and calendar system uses your legal first, middle, and last name. If you would rather use a preferred name that is different from your legal name, please take these steps. For example, if Andrew Dickson White wanted his name to appear as "Andy White" on his…
Your free/busy times are shown when someone invites you to a meeting they are scheduling. The meeting proposer can see your free/busy times with the Scheduling Assistant.A color-coded grid shows this information:
Open the message. Click the small, downward-facing arrow next to the Reply arrow icon near the top right of the message window, just under the Subject of the message. Select Show original. A separate window will open, showing a few summary rows at the top, then the complete…
Spam makes up more than two-thirds of all email traffic. Every email in the world passes through a gauntlet of junk mail / spam filters designed to protect recipients from all that spam.With so much complexity, it’s inevitable that the occasional message will be misjudged. Take these two steps…
Note: The CU Blog Service should not be used to store confidential data as defined by Cornell Policy 5.10. Copyright Faculty own the copyright of original content entered into Confluence or the Cornell Blog Service according to Cornell University Copyright Policy, unless other contracts or…
Just getting started? Want to learn more? Need some guidance? CampusPress/Edublogs, the vendor for the Cornell Blog Service, provides insights and instructions on using the service.
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Subscribe by email allows blog administrators to either subscribe blog users to receive email notifications or allow users to subscribe themselves. This tool is built and maintained by CampusPress/Edublogs. By default, all blogs have the Subscribe by email tool enabled and all users…

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