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This page is for people who have a CIT-managed Office 365 account (all faculty, staff, and students), and want to start using Outlook for Mac. If your unit’s computers are centrally managed, check with your local IT support staff before installing any software. Outlook for Mac is supported…
What Is Appspace?CUView digital signage content is managed using Appspace, a cloud-based content management platform.After your CUView account has been created, an automated invitation message will be emailed to you from the system. Follow the link to confirm your new account and provide basic…
To cancel CUView service, please fill out the Request for Service form.
CUView Discussion ListHave you considered following the CUView e-list? Share general ideas and questions with other CUView users by emailing CUView-discuss-l@cornell.edu (you must be a member of the list to post).
BillingAs a component of emergency communications, CUView requires no monthly fees or ongoing costs to participating units.The only costs for CUView are the one-time charges for obtaining an estimate, signing up for maintenance, and purchasing and installing the signage.FeesA basic CUView…
The CUView digital signage service requires:
You can edit Microsoft Office documents stored in Box either online using the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Online apps, or on your computer desktop using the full version of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. Groups can simultaneously edit and collaborate on Microsoft Office files…
We recommend that you use an EGA address as the sender when sending Cornell bulkmail.
One-Time Mailing Situation: You have a message to be sent to a large number of people. You have the list of email addresses. You are NOT sending to a pre-defined group, such as all students or all faculty.
University Policy 5.2 applies if you want to send a message to ALL members of one or more of the following groups: Alumni Students Academics Staff Allow at least two business days to complete this process.
There are several applications that are not appropriate for customers to run on a managed server in the Server Farm. These applications might reproduce existing central functions, be a security risk, or they may break our management model. If there is an application that you use where you feel a…
Snapshots are “point-in-time” versions of data stored on the share. Snapshots enable access and restoration of old versions of files. This is useful in the event of accidental deletion of a file or for reverting to an older copy of a set of files. Snapshots are the only way a file may be…
Shared File Services supports the SMB2 and SMB3 protocols.  The SMB1 protocol was removed effective 4/29/2018 from the Cornell Active Directory (AD) Domain Controllers and the \\files.cornell.edu DFS servers used by SFS.  SMB1 is not supported. Lack of SMB1 may impact older…
You can connect to an SMB (sometimes called CIFS) Share using any of the following methods: Using a UNC Path: Windows or Mac OS X Net Use: Windows (recommended for non-Cornell AD joined computers) Note for Linux: SFS does not offer support for Linux accessing CIFS, however,…
Each managed server has three types of contacts associated with it:
Three connected systems are part of the monitoring and on-call contact process: 
Use the forms below to either request a new share or change/delete an existing share.Change requests must come from the contacts of record for the share.
What to use a share for? Files you want to share within your department or with other departments at the University. To store University (mission data) in a safe/secure central location. “Low Velocity” data: data which undergoes less than a 20% daily change rate, i.e. Microsoft Office…
If you have questions about using a share, consult:

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