Financial Information Services

<div>On Tuesday, November 11th 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><ul><li>ccc1-2200e</li><li>dist1-600e</li><li>dist2-600e</li><li>geneva1-600e</li></ul>

<div>Some users are reporting slow response times from TeamDynamix.</div>

<div>Starting Monday, November 10, 2025, Cornell will begin tagging emails that fail DMARC policy with a security warning. Looking forward, IT staff should be aware that, starting Wednesday, January 28, 2026, DMARC-non-compliant emails will be blocked. &nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>To support this transition, notifications and reminders have been sent to non-compliant EGA address owners with instructions on what they need to do to comply with DMARC policy and avoid disruptions.

<div>Instructure, the Canvas vendor, will be performing a maintenance event on your New Quizzes instance on November 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM ET. Maintenance work is expected to last up to one hour. Users may not be able to access New Quizzes during the maintenance window. All other Canvas functionality will remain operational.<br><br>Maintenance Details: New Quizzes - database optimizations.<br>If you have any questions, please contact canvas@cornell.edu</div>

<div>Beginning in November 2025, Microsoft will deploy new file and URL protections for Microsoft Teams. This change will be deployed in stages, sometime during November or December.&nbsp;<br><br>When a malicious link is detected, Teams will automatically display a warning to both the sender and recipient. This helps reduce the risk of phishing attacks. Teams will automatically block messages that include weaponizable file types. This applies to both internal and external conversations.</div>

<div>On Saturday, November 8, 2025, from 12am to noon, TeamDynamix will upgrade to version 12.1. TeamDynamix will be unavailable during the upgrade. This release incorporates over thirty different changes.

<div>PeopleSoft Student Center, Faculty Center, Student Essentials, ePay, Student Admissions, Contributor Relations, Financial Aid, Student Financials, Student Records, Student Employment (PSES) will be unavailable on <strong>Sunday, 11/9/2025, at 5:00am until approximately 10:00am</strong> for regularly scheduled server maintenance. This maintenance may not require the fully scheduled time.

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

<div>On Wednesday, November 12, 2025, starting at 9am, CIT will restrict Azure resource deployments to US regions only.

<div>Microsoft Teams returns an error when a customer tries to create a new team using a custom template: "We ran into a problem creating your team. Please try again later."&nbsp;<br><br>The issue affects Cornell customers for whom the Cornell Standard template is recommended when creating a team.