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A new, faster Teams app will soon be available. New Teams will also streamline and focus the look and feel of notifications, search, messages, and meetings. When it becomes available, estimated sometime in November 2023, it will be possible to try it by flipping a toggle in Teams, then switch back…
Watch out for fake job offers. Scammers are contacting Cornell students, pretending to be professors offering part-time research and administrative jobs. Students who apply end up losing their own money through fraudulent banking transactions.
Be suspicious if a listing:
Asks for your bank…
How the Search Works (OR operator)By default when you put in several words, the search engine looks on IT@Cornell for pages that have any of those words in them. If you search for Microsoft office the results will show if they have the word Microsoft OR office in them.
Cornell's Microsoft OneDrive file storage and collaboration service has experienced major improvements in speed, organization, and personalization. OneDrive is integrated with Microsoft Teams and other Microsoft 365 services, and can be accessed through Microsoft Office apps or directly at onedrive…
The Strategic Storage Initiative, launched in 2021, continues its efforts to provide services that meet Cornell's storage needs in a financially sustainable manner. Over its history, the project has implemented processes that help manage storage use. These include:
The updated IT@Cornell website (it.cornell.edu) went live after the close of business hours on Monday, September 25, 2023. The launch concludes the new site project, which began late in 2022.
The new version of the website runs on Drupal 9, a supported version of the web platform that brings…
Ben Maddox, the chief academic technology officer at New York University, has been named chief information officer for the Ithaca campus and Cornell Tech. He will begin his new role November 6, 2023.
As CIO for the Ithaca campus and Cornell Tech, Ben Maddox will create a more agile and innovative…
HTML-Formatted Email
HTML formatted email is the default for most email clients, including Outlook on the Web.
Sending email to a non-Cornell address
Your URLs will not be formatted by Safe Links when you send an email.
Biometric verification uses physical characteristics of a person to verify their identity. The fingerprint login or facial recognition you might use on your smartphone or computer are examples of biometrics. On Windows, you may know this feature as Windows Hello. On Mac, it’s called Touch ID.
Learn more about CU Print, the printing service for students.
With the rapid growth of generative AI tools, Cornell, like so many of our peer institutions, is exploring how this new area of AI impacts our institution.
Do you have any pressing questions about web accessibility, or just want to know more about how to make your website accessible to all? The CIT Web Accessibility team hosts Web Accessibility Office Hours on the second Thursday of every month at 1 pm.
It is now possible to set your pronouns in Cornell's Microsoft Office 365 through Teams or Outlook on the web. If you choose to make use of the feature, the information will appear on your profile card in apps like Teams and Outlook. For more information, see Microsoft's Pronouns on your…
Starting August 7, 2023, Ithaca Microsoft Office 365 settings will be changed so that individuals at Weill Cornell Medicine and elsewhere outside Cornell can see presence status (like Available, Busy, or Do not disturb) for members of the Ithaca and Cornell Tech communities. WCM presence is already…
To avoid an interruption to the ability to attend scheduled Zoom meetings, Zoom and Zoom Room clients should be updated to version 5.12 or greater before August 5, 2023.
CU Print was developed in response to the student body's request for a universal, affordable, and environmentally friendly system. CU Print provides printers and their supplies to site locations at no expense to the location. In exchange, site locations are responsible for ordering paper and…
What Makes Google Drive Right for Your Storage Needs?If you collaborate with users outside of Cornell, particularly with international partners, it can be easier to use Drive with them. Some faculty members find the Google environment easier to use for their classes.
The term “orphaned content” is used to describe items left behind when their owner left the university without transferring ownership to someone else.
When materials are orphaned, the owner will be shown as DELETED USER, followed by the previous owner's name. If you hover over the item, you will…
Sign into your Cornell Google Workspace.
Click Google Apps (the nine-dot icon in the toolbar), then select Drive.
Click Shared with me in the left navigation column.
Click More actions (the three-dot icon) to the right of the item, select Share, and click Share.