Visitors
It's possible that in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, you may receive phishing emails, or see websites, ads, and other media created by scammers trying to take advantage of the tragedy.Read more
Online risks don't end when the work day does. Here are some tips to protect your personal identity and information, too.Read more
Changes are coming to the Cornell-Visitor Wi-Fi network that will enable visitors to use more applications other than web browsing.Read more
To enable FileVault on a non-managed Mac computer, please see Apple's...Read more
Finding someone in the Cornell Electronic Directory is very easy, since the search includes not only the name fields in the database, but department, nickname, NetID, and campus phone number as well. This means that as long as you know...Read more
Please wait to contact the IT Service Desk during normal business hours (Monday-Friday, 8am-6pm) for any issues that are not emergencies. Please understand that individual issues are usually not considered to be emergencies -- for example, if you need...Read more
Instructor-led workshops and classes are offered on a variety of topics, including Office 2019 (Access, Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, and Word), SharePoint Online, and Adobe Creative Cloud (Captivate, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop). IT professional technical...Read more
SafeDNS helps protect computers from websites that host malicious software.
DNS Defined
DNS (Domain Name Service) allows computers on the Internet to have human-readable names. For example, DNS translates www.cornell.edu to the computer-...Read more
Domain name system (DNS) servers maintain a list of IP addresses and corresponding names for all the servers on the Internet. Your computer has to be able to connect to a DNS server in order for you to be able to use the Internet.
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a TCP/IP...Read more