Cornell has begun its transition to Marketing Cloud as the enterprise mass communication marketing platform for messages sent from units and departments across the university. This comprehensive effort is bringing a disparate array of communications that use dozens of different, incompatible,…

Lyris List Manager (the e-list service many rely on for mass communication) is being replaced, but your e-lists aren’t going away! Simplelists, a new platform, will replace Lyris and become Cornell’s new e-list service in 2026. Although the timeline for transitioning to Simplelists is still…

On Tuesday, January 13, 2026, Cornell will make a configuration change to some Lyris E-lists to bring posts sent by email into better alignment with the upcoming DMARC security policy enforcement scheduled for Wednesday, January 28, 2026. 

A new feature, Microsoft’s First Contact Safety Tip, has been enabled for Cornell email accounts through Microsoft Exchange.

Beginning Monday, December 15, 2025, Cornell will enable more aggressive anti-phishing protections that come with our investment in Microsoft A5 Defender. These settings have previously been piloted by CIT and other IT staff and did not result in any major issues. What to expectThe new…

Beginning Monday, November 24, 2025, Cornell will begin a pilot of enhanced anti-phishing protections that come with our investment in Microsoft A5 Defender. Why are we making this change and why now?As you may be aware, hacktivists have been aggressively targeting higher education…

On Wednesday, February 25, 2026, at the direction of IT leadership, Cornell will complete its accelerated enforcement of DMARC ("Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance") policies. After the implementation, all email messages from “@cornell.edu” addresses that fail…

The rollout of the Outlook Online Archive for all Cornell Outlook email accounts is planned for later in 2026. 

Your Cornell email account is connected to your status at Cornell as active faculty, student, alumni, or staff. If your connection with Cornell changes, for example by changing from student to alumni or from alumni to staff, your email might change. If your affiliation with Cornell ends, your email…

PhishAlarm made its public debut in Cornell Outlook email clients in March 2024, making it easier to report suspicious messages to the IT Security Office and remove these messages from the email client. 

More information to come.For AdminsThe most basic and important tasks of your role include:

Beginning February 1, 2025, Microsoft's deprecation of Outlook legacy tokens resulting from a new authentication protocol, Nested App Authentication (NAA), may impact the Zoom for Outlook Add-in's ability to access Outlook calendar data. To ensure continued functionality of the Zoom for…

In February 2024, Gmail will begin enforcing several security-related requirements for messages sent to Gmail accounts. These requirements include proper authentication and domain records for the sending domain, secure transmission connections, a low spam rate for the sender, and proper email…

As previously announced, beginning October 31, 2018, Microsoft will enforce use of TLS 1.2 with Office 365. TLS (Transport Layer Security) provides communications security over computer networks and so affects email, instant messaging, and other networked communication interactions. Windows 10…

In February 2026, Cornell began full enforcement of DMARC ("Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance") email security policies. This is intended to prevent email fraud from spoofing, phishing, and other forms of email-based crime.Going forward, all email messages from “@…

Implementation TimelineInitial implementation phases were focused on building the platform's email functionality, with additional communication layers enabled during later phases.Currently, implementation is focused on two areas:

AppSMTP is an email routing service for computer hosts, network devices, scanners, and applications such as web sites that need to send email to Cornell and external recipients. While the previous version of this service allowed you to send from any host without any configuration, registration is…

Upon graduation, storage for Cornell Google accounts is reduced to 5GB. Alumni must keep their accounts under 5GB to keep using their Cornell email address and associated Google services.Cornell Google Workspace for Education is Cornell's email, calendar, and collaboration service for…

In order to support collaboration with Cornell students and colleagues at other institutions, Google Workspace accounts - which include Google's email, calendar, and collaboration services - are available for faculty and staff. This service was previously called G Suite. Activating a…

Calendar is the calendar app included with Mac OS X. Using Apple Calendar, Apple Mail and Apple Address Book provides some - but not all - of the functionality of Outlook or Outlook on the Web.