On the afternoon of October 15, 2024, concurrent breakout sessions engaged the Emerging Tech Dialogue participants in conversations about coming changes as well as how to approach and navigate the people-side of change, also known as organizational change management. 

Near the end of October 2024, Cornell Microsoft 365 accounts owned by someone who has left will become read-only, as a step toward eventual deletion. The past owners of these accounts have not been able to access them since they left. However, it's possible that some files in the accounts' OneDrive…

DescriptionTo put Cornell at the forefront of Artificial Intelligence innovation, as well as provide tools that allow faculty and staff to realize time and effort savings, Cornell needs AI tools that allow its constituents the opportunity to manipulate protected data (as defined by University…

Microsoft Teams is an important collaboration tool for many at the university, but if you’re not careful, you could lose important information that you’ve shared with your team.

In order to achieve the ambitious goals Cornell has as a leading research institution in the nation and the world,  we need technology services that support our community.The Cornell Experience Modernization Initiative (CEMI) seeks to unify and improve the technology systems we use on all…

Starting in late September 2024, Microsoft 365 Groups and Teams that have had no activity for a year or more, and whose owners do not respond to warning notices, will start to be deleted. Any activity in the Group or Team from any member within thirty days of the owner receiving the deletion…

Two Google storage tiers planned and announced in 2022 will eventually be added for some alumni Google accounts. Alumni accounts with less than 4.5 Gigabytes (GB) of content will be given a quota of 5 GB. Accounts with more than 4.5 GB and less than 9 GB of storage will have a quota of 10 GB. This…

Microsoft Teams is the collaboration tool of choice for faculty and staff at Cornell, but it's not without its quirks. If Microsoft Teams notifications have been troublesome, it may be because your notifications are set to be too general. Getting constant updates about conversations that aren't…

Rob Vanderlan, Executive Director of the Center for Teaching Innovation, is no stranger to the disruption that generative AI tools can bring to a classroom.

Faculty, staff, researchers, and students are all invited to participate in a series of events where they can explore new technologies with their IT and ITS partners across campuses and focus areas.

At Cornell, there are two instances of Teams. One includes Ithaca and Cornell Tech, and the other includes Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) and Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar. If you use Teams to collaborate across campuses, you may have wondered how to set up a channel that allows everyone to interact…

On March 21, 2024, all individuals using Microsoft Teams on a Cornell account will default to the new Teams client. For some groups, the new Teams client is already the default experience. This change precedes the end of access to classic Teams in May 2024.

The timeline for retiring classic Teams has changed and more information will be available soon. All individuals using Microsoft Teams on a Cornell account are now able to try the new Teams client. You can

On February 19, 2024, quotas will be added to Cornell Box and Microsoft storage accounts. The quotas will be set above current usage for all accounts, as was done when quotas were added to Google accounts in 2022.

You can now get to your Cornell Microsoft online files more quickly at microsoft365.cornell.edu. This new shortcut takes you directly to Microsoft Home, which provides ready access to documents you've saved online or that have been shared to you through Teams or other Microsoft services. It…

If you'd like to broaden your use of Microsoft Teams beyond Cornell, individuals who are outside the university can be added as external guests to a team. Doing so lets you to coordinate, communicate, and plan with colleagues at other universities, vendors, contractors, and other outside…

OverviewWhen you log in to Copilot with your NetID, your prompts, answers, and viewed content are not used to train the underlying large language models.Microsoft Copilot Enterprise is a generative artificial intelligence (AI) chat with commercial data protection currently available to faculty,…

The Microsoft 365 Home page was recently updated to make it faster and easier to find the files you and your collaborators are working with. It has a Recommended section that lets you know about activity you may want to be aware of. It includes files you've recently shared, files that…

Approvals is a native Teams application that lets you create, manage, and share approval requests and sign-offs. You can quickly start an approval flow from the same place you send a chat or have a channel conversation, or from the approvals app itself. A feature has been added that lets you…

If you’re using SharePoint and want to ask a question or have a discussion with others at Cornell, there's a new community for you in the Viva Engage service: Microsoft SharePoint Users. The community will have participation from the Cornell service team responsible for Microsoft 365, campus…