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Alumni will be able to create Two-Step Login accounts as of July 22, 2020, in order to access their records on Cornell Health's patient portal.
Please visit UPDATE: Confluence upgrade to version 7.4 rescheduled to August 21-23, 2020 for the latest information about this update.
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Be cautious about any unsolicited offers you receive for internships or jobs. Cornell students are continuing to receive a large of number of fraudulent (phishing) emails with these scam offers, and some students have fallen victim.
Microsoft Teams is being introduced to Cornell in stages.
Starting July 20, 2020, students who use Office 365 productivity tools will need to authenticate using Two-Step Login when they log in.
The next meeting of the IT Security SIG is Wednesday, July 8, 2020, from 10:30am-noon on Zoom. The IT Security SIG is sponsored by the Cornell IT Security Office.
IT Statements of Need are now easier to submit and, if you have access, to view and search. Using the new IT Governance web app, you can enter all the information needed for an ...
CIT has enabled Microsoft Bookings for Cornell faculty and staff who request it. The service is part of the Office 365 Productivity Bundle and allows small organizations and groups to better schedule and coordinate customer appointments.
Beginning soon, CIT Custom Development will launch phased retirement of the Static Web Hosting service. In preparation, no new websites will be added to the service as of July 1, 2020. After that date, existing site owners will continue to be supported, however no new instances will be created...
The Confluence migration team would like to follow up on our previous update to let you know it is proceeding to the next step in moving the Confluence service to an externally hosted environment. If you are a Confluence space administrator whose space has been flagged as "_to_be_archived,"...
The Cority enterprise Environmental Health, Safety and Quality (EHSQ) software service is now live at Cornell.
Also beginning May 24, 2020, Zoom users will have access to two features: audio transcriptions for cloud recordings and Zoom app for Google Calendar.
Zoom now provides system administrators with the option to customize which regional data centers are allowed to handle data for an organization’s meetings and webinars. Beginning May 24, 2020, CIT will opt out of using the mainland China and Hong Kong data centers for data transit.
Starting May 24, 2020, all Zoom meetings and webinars will require passwords. After this date, you will no longer have the option to schedule a meeting or webinar without a password, and these passwords will be embedded in Zoom Join links. In addition,...
The Ithaca Branch of Project Management Institute (PMI), Rochester, will host an online talk by Dana Lynn Bernstein, Wednesday, June 10, 2020, at 5:45pm. The topic will be "Mastering the Art of Humanness in Project Management: Serving Others Through Powerful Communications." Find the...
Zoom's ongoing response to users' security and privacy needs will result in important new updates and policy changes to the application over the coming weeks. Because some of these changes may require action on your part, please review each upcoming change carefully.
Zoom has released version 5.0 this week as the next step in its continuing efforts to improve meeting video and data security. Most notably, the update adds support for improved encryption, which Zoom plans to activate on its networks May 30, 2020. In preparation for this important change, CIT...
Cornell leadership has confirmed that the COHSEC project will continue on schedule for a mid-May launch for EHS and Occupational Medicine.
When you’re organizing a Zoom session, it’s important to take steps to prevent unwanted attendees and unwanted behavior (“zoombombing”). Options include setting passwords, limiting who can enter your meeting, restricting what attendees can do in the...
On April 26, 2020, Zoom will turn off v1 of its API. To reduce the number of changes that day, CIT will turn off an old integration between Google Calendar and Zoom on April 22.