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On Wednesday March 9, 2016 CIT's Network Engineering will be adding an additional layer of security to the Wi-Fi networks, the residence hall networks, computer labs, and staff access nets.
Effective March 13, 2016 at noon, the security settings on the Cornell WebEx site will be changed so that there is no longer a public list of scheduled meetings.
Box Sync and Edit support will be ending for Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) August 1, 2016, and Box browser support for Internet Explorer 9 and 10 will end September 1, 2016. Cornell Box provides cloud storage and collaboration space for Cornell faculty, students, and staff.
A new wave of ransomware (malicious software that encrypts files for ransom) is being reported in the news and by some users within the Cornell community.
Join the Cornell Online Learning Community (COLC) meeting on March 1st at 3:00pm in G10 Biotech. Provost Michael I. Kotlikoff and Associate Vice Provost for Online Learning Paul Krause will be the keynote speakers.
CIT and Maverick Solutions are offering a three-day training for the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, better known as OBIEE Answers.
This time of year there are many tax-related scams consumers should be on the look out for.
Cornell’s Two-Step Login service is getting a new look on February 14. Users will see new versions of the authentication prompt and the screens they use to manage their Two-Step Login devices.
Next week an upgrade to Remedy may mean that some users will no longer see the Service CI notification when switching services that says: “You have modified the Service or CI. Would you like to keep the existing Service or CI relationships?”
To improve our network connections on campus we are upgrading our core routers on campus. The scheduled cutover will be happening Sunday, February 14, 2016 between 5:00am – 7:00am.
Oracle retired premium support for Hyperion/Brio products as of May 2015. Oracle’s Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, or OBIEE, will be the CIT supported replacement for reporting at Cornell.
The Alliance for Diversity and Inclusion (ADI) represents diversity planning efforts of the Division of Financial Affairs, Cornell Information Technologies, University Audit, University Investments, the Office of the President (including Commencement), and the Offices of the Provost, Dean of...
Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations stored in Cornell Box can now be edited by multiple people at the same time using Office Online apps.
Microsoft Research and Cornell University are offering a one-day training for Cornell post-doctoral researchers, research faculty, and graduate research students who use large data sets and have basic software development skills.
CIT will upgrade its Shibboleth Identity Provider service on Sunday March 6, 2016 from 7:30-9:30am. Anyone who has an application that uses Shibboleth authentication should test the application with the new version of the Shibboleth Identity Provider to ensure compatibility.
SkillSoft just made it easier to learn new material and acquire new skills with its new course player.
The next meeting of the SharePoint SIG (Special Interest Group) will be Tuesday, January 26, Weill Hall Room 226, from 2-3:30. The SharePoint SIG is open to anyone interested in learning about and discussing SharePoint.
Academic Technologies offers free training and courses for instructors on classroom technology. There are three more available before spring semester starts:
The Ithaca branch of the Project Manager Institute (PMI) grew from a group of project managers from Cornell who started meeting in 2009. What began as a special interest group expanded into a regional group of project manager professionals.