News: October 2020
You can now add an external guest to a team in Cornell Microsoft Teams.
The OBIEE Reporting tool will be upgraded on October 23, 2020.
On Thursday, December 31, 2020, Adobe Flash Player will reach “End of Life” (EOL) status. This means the program will no longer be distributed, supported, or updated by Adobe. The lack of available security updates after the EOL date means that continued use of Flash Player...
As previously announced per the Student Printing Service Project, Cornell is transitioning from Net-Print to a new campus printing service. Cornell Information Technologies and the Student Assembly recently partnered to select CU Print as the new service name. Currently, CU Print is in the...
Later this year, CIT’s Email and Messaging team will update the AppSMTP service, used by applications, printers, scanners, and monitoring devices to send automated email to users.
Last August, Cornell implemented an effective new tool to protect campus email users from malicious attacks. Since Microsoft Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Safe Attachments was deployed on the university’s Office 365 email service, it has greatly reduced the possibility of...
Cornell has chosen 3Play Media as the preferred vendor for human captioning and transcription of video content. After thoughtful review, the university determined that 3Play provided the best fit for a wide range of the campus community’s captioning and transcription needs.
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Take simple steps now to protect yourself at home from online attacks: Secure your Wi-Fi network, enable stronger authentication, keep a clean machine, know your apps, and reassess what you share online.
For some customers, Zoom has begun implementing live, real-time automatic speech recognition (ASR) transcripts. This feature is available to Cornell users who host meetings and webinars.
The next meeting of the IT Security SIG is Wednesday, October 14, 2020. Join us for National Cybersecurity Awareness Month trivia. This is an event you won't want to miss!
As previously announced, CIT has launched the WebSSO Modernization Project, a program to retire the CUWebAuth web application authentication service and migrate to Shibboleth SAML-based authentication. The service retirement deadline is September 30, 2021.
Starting Wednesday, October 7, 2020, CIT will no longer include Emergency Notification in the Certified Desktop Tableau dashboards. This reporting change will not negatively impact the Certified Desktop compliance metrics that are presented to Audit. E...