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Financial Information Services


KFS 7 Overview of Capital Assets Webinar

This webinar will cover the recent changes to KFS including a review of the new look and feel as it pertains to Capital Assets and Capital Asset e-docs.

KFS 7 Overview of Capital Assets Webinar, April 19, 2017

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KFS Overview of Changes and Upgrades to Version 7 Webinar

This webinar will cover the recent changes to KFS including a review the new overall look and feel and the new look for the Disbursement Voucher (DV) and Requisition (REQS) e-docs.

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Scheduled Service Change - Require message authenticator in RADIUS exchanges

<div>On Friday, Dec 12, 2025, between 5am and 7am, enforce the RADIUS message authenticator attribute in the Managed Firewall appliances, IUN firewalls, and Cisco secure client connections. This setting is already in place in many of the devices but will now be set to "required" instead of "optional" for all connections.</div>

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Scheduled Service Change - Media3 VM Migration of CU-CIT-CWD

<div>Media3 will be migrating the&nbsp;CU-CIT-CWD VM to their Azure datacenter, which will result in an outage of up to five minutes for the Cornell Optional Email Alias (COEA) application and Database-Password-App (internal app used by CIT DBA group).</div>

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Scheduled Service Change - Upgrade Firmware On Managed Firewall Appliances 5/5

<div>On Sunday, November 23, 2025, between 5:00am and 7:00am EST, CIT Network Engineering will upgrade the code on 5 campus Managed Firewall Appliances. There will be two reboots, each lasting 10 minutes.

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Scheduled Service Change - Apply latest patch to Oracle Analytics Server (OAS, formerly OBIEE)

<div>The <a href="https://oasprod.db.cornell.edu/analytics">Oracle Analytics Server dashboards</a> will be down for maintenance on Sunday November 23, 2025, from 6am - 8am EST while the application receives the latest patch.</div>

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Scheduled Service Change - KFS 11/23/2025 patch release

<div>KFS, Cynergy, eShop, and Cynergy Applications will be down for a patch release this Sunday, November 23, 2025, from 6am to 12pm EST.</div>

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Scheduled Service Change - Upgrade Firmware On Managed Firewall Appliances 4/5

<div>On Thursday, November 20th, 2025, between 5:00am and 7:00am, CIT Network Engineering will upgrade the code on 4 campus Managed Firewall Appliances. There will be two reboots, each lasting 10 minutes. This will result in complete outages for unit-owned campus networks on the Ithaca and Geneva campuses for the duration of the reboots.<br><br>The list includes:</div><div><br></div><ul><li>research1-2200e</li><li>rhodes1-2200e</li><li>uris1-2200e</li><li>vmc1-2200e</li></ul>

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Scheduled Service Change - Periodic Zoom User Deprovisioning

<div>On Thursday, November 20, 2025, periodic de-provisioning of Cornell Zoom user accounts will take place. Cornell Zoom accounts associated with individuals who no longer have a university affiliation that provides access to Zoom (such as alumni, retirees, etc.) will be unlinked from the Cornell Zoom instance, converting their Zoom accounts to free/personal accounts.</div>

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Unplanned Outage - Secure Connect (Beyond Identity) Errors

<div>Secure Connect authentication attempts are returning errors from the Cloudflare service ("Internal server error, error code 500." The vendor is aware of the issue and working toward a resolution.<br><br>Users are advised to use a private / incognito browser window to sign in without Secure Connect or clear browser cookies for "cornell.edu".</div>

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