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Join the Higher-Ed DevOps Conference planning committee as they partner with the EDUCAUSE DevOps Community Group for an engaging...
The IT Security SIG is pleased to announce that we are opening nominations for standing members to join the Steering Committee. You are encouraged to nominate yourself and other security-minded leaders. For more information and to submit your nomination, contact...
The next meeting of the IT Security SIG is Wednesday, February 9, 2022. Join us for an engaging discussion! On the agenda: News from the front; Apache Log4j 2 recap; 2021 year in review and the 2022 predictions poll; followed by an open forum.
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. Not sure whether a message is legitimate? Check...
Starting Monday, January 31, 2022, LastPass will no longer support the Microsoft Edge Legacy browser extension for LastPass. This action follows an...
The Jira software project management service will be upgraded from 9pm on Friday, January 21, 2022, through 6am on Saturday, January 22, 2022. During the maintenance window, users will be unable to access/update the Jira Production application.
Data Privacy Week is January 24–28. Cornell has signed on as a 2022 Champion to help ensure a culture of digital privacy for all. Learn how to manage your personal information and keep it secure. Be #PrivacyAware.
Planned System Testing and Train-the-Trainer have been completed and User Acceptance Testing and Go-Live are on the way.
On October 1, 2022, Microsoft will permanently disable Basic Authentication (“Basic Auth”) for Exchange email tenants. Basic Auth is an outdated authentication standard that allows users to connect to their mailbox using only a username and password and its continued use...
The Ithaca Branch of Project Management Institute (PMI), Rochester, will host an online talk by RJ Davies, Friday, January 14, 2022, from 12noon to 1:15pm. The topic will be "Leadership in Project Management." There is a small registration fee, but attendees do not need to be PMI members. Find...
Beginning in mid-January 2022, Two-Step Login users who authenticate using a USB security key (hardware token) will need to update their key and should expect an extra step in their login process. Google has announced it will end support for the U2F authentication standard in Chrome. To...
The PeopleSoft Hosting Migration Project, which will transition Cornell’s implementation of PeopleSoft Campus Solutions from its current external host to Cornell’s Amazon Web Services, is well underway. Affected integrations should plan now to begin testing early in this timeframe so that...
On Sunday, December 19, 2021, between 5am and 7am, CIT Network Engineering will upgrade code on wireless controllers and access points. During the maintenance window, users can expect a brief outage of approximately 10-15 minutes for all Cornell Wi-Fi networks (eduroam, RedRover, and Cornell-...
CIT Administrative and Collaborative Applications is seeking interested users for testing Confluence and Jira in a non-production environment. Cornell users who would like to join this round of testing should contact Kent Dalpan at kdd36@cornell.edu. This...
Cornell’s implementation of PeopleSoft Campus Solutions will be migrating from the current external provider’s private cloud to Cornell’s Amazon Web Services environment. The cutover to the migrated production system is scheduled for March 3–6, 2022. Much of the university’s essential business...
On December 13, 2021, between 8am and 12noon, the TeamDynamix sandbox environment will be refreshed with content from the production system. This refresh will affect all Cornell TeamDynamix instances. During the maintenance window, users will be unable to log in to the sandbox for dev/test...
The President's Awards for Employee Excellence recognize the achievements of Cornell faculty and staff who excel in their roles, both in skills and performance. Congratulations to the 11 CIT staff who were honored as winners at the 8th annual event, plus four more who were nominated!
CISA has recently released the actionable Mobile Device Cybersecurity Checklist for Consumers. Take these simple steps now to help strengthen your defense...
The next meeting of the IT Security SIG is Wednesday, December 8, 2021, from 10:30am-12noon on Zoom. Through a cross-campus partnership, this will be a joint session with the Software Development SIG (SD-SIG). Join us for this special event!
With this update, the TeamDynamix client portal site search will be improved. Going forward, the search field will offer suggested results as you type search terms and will also support more complex search terms. Also, to better assist users who are not logged in to TeamDynamix,...