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What is the difference between a host and a co-host?
A host is the “owner” of a meeting or webinar and is the person who can administer the meeting via the host controls. The host is the only person who can end a meeting or make someone else the host.
Live polls can be set up prior to a webinar, or made on the fly within Zoom. The polling feature for webinars allows you to create single-choice or multiple-choice polling questions for your webinars.
Details can be found on Zoom's Polling Help Center page.
You can install the desktop Outlook add-in to schedule meetings directly from the Outlook client (more information on Zoom's Outlook Add-in page) or you can create the meeting in Zoom and copy and paste the meeting invitation into a new message in your mail client.
For information about using the…
Eligible Roles
Employees and students can create Cornell Zoom accounts. In some cases, the features available vary depending on the user’s role at the university.
For help with Zoom, including live issues as an event is taking place, we recommend that you contact the vendor directly.
Caution: Sudo is a powerful privilege. (That's why it's limited to select users.) Users granted sudo privileges should be sure they understand the best practices for its use.
Requesting Sudo Access
Sudo privilege is given to individual accounts on a “need to” basis. Area Managers may submit…
Marshaling IDs are a mechanism for administering a group of servers as a coordinated unit. Marshaling IDs can be used for:
A virtual machine snapshot is a function of VMware that allows you to create a point in time image of your server that you may revert to in the future. When a snapshot is created a delta file is made for each hard disk attached to the virtual machine. This means that if you roll back a snapshot,…
Summary
We patch our Enterprise Linux (CentOS, Oracle, Red Hat) systems on a monthly basis, over a seven-day schedule.
Our patching process updates the Operating System with vendor-provided patches. In addition, patching may include updates to certain packages that we provide with the…
Request a Virtual Server
Complete and submit the form for your situation.
Server Farm Account Management (SFAM) is the method for centrally managing Unix users and access rights across the CIT server farm. The simplified account structure employs user Roles and server Classes to streamline authorization.
Linux firewall rules can be applied in two ways:
Monthly Windows Updates
Windows patching slots start at 3PM on Tuesday and run every two hours until 11AM on Sunday. Your server will need to be patched in one of these slots.
The best practice is to apply Microsoft patches at the earliest convenient time and not risk a system compromise. In many…
Policies
Users of Cornell University’s IT resources are subject to local, state, and federal laws, as well as University IT policies. See Responsible Use of Information Technology Resources for what this means for you.
To access the My Computers page from off-campus, while traveling or from home, use the Virtual Private Network (VPN).
Go to the My Computers page.
Click View for the device you want to remove.
Please use this link to get connected to the eduroam Wi-Fi network
User Experience
When I try to connect to eduroam, my password is not accepted and the connection fails. I know I'm typing my password correctly.
Accessing the My Computers page from off-campus, while traveling or from home, requires use of the Virtual Private Network (VPN).
You will need to use a device that DOES have a browser to enter your NetID and the hardware (Media Access Control, or MAC) address for your brows
These instructions are for computers using Certified Desktop. To connect a personal device, please use our onboarding tool.
Select eduroam from the Airport menu bar.
All faculty/staff Office 365 accounts have a 100 GB of mailbox storage. The vendor does not accept requests for larger mailboxes.
How Full is My Mailbox?
Outlook for Windows: Click the File tab in the ribbon. With Info selected in the column on the left, look in the section labeled Mailbox…
You can share the Google Docs associated with your Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) account in a number of ways. Each document can be shared with
No one
Only the people you specify (through their Google Workspace account)
Anyone who has the link to the document
Anyone
For…