<div>Microsoft A5 Defender is being updated for all Cornell Outlook accounts on Monday, December 15, at 6am ET. <br><br>The updated Microsoft Defender Policy for Microsoft Exchange will better identify Phishing email and quarantine or route such emails to Junk email folders. These changes have been tested by the a Pilot Group for over a year and the pilot was expanded to include all IT Staff on 11/24/2025. No major issues were reported in the pilot.</div>
<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>
<div>Media3 will be migrating the 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>
A new user experience for the Concur Travel module will go live for Cornell users on February 13. The new interface features a refreshed, modern design consistent with the Expense and Request modules.
The following finance classes are available from December 2024 through June 2025 and are open to any person interested in learning more about Cornell accounting/finance policies.
SAP Concur is launching a refreshed home page experience with an intuitive design and user-friendly navigation. The new experience rollout will happen over time and only applies to the web version.
