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<div>On Sunday, October 19, 2025, at 9:00 am the Oracle Internet Directory (OID) service will be redirected to new servers to facilitate the retirement of Linux 7 servers. This will affect the following DNS entries:</div><ul><li>oid.cit.cornell.edu</li><li>oidmaster.cit.cornell.edu</li><li>oidmaster1.cit.cornell.edu</li><li>oidmaster2.cit.cornell.edu</li><li>oid-int-10.cit.cornell.edu</li><li>oid-int-10.serverfarm.cornell.edu</li></ul>

<div>KFS, Cynergy, eShop, and Cynergy Applications will be down for a patch release this Sunday, October 5, from 6am to 12 noon EST.</div>

<div>There have been reports of slow login and incomplete project lists for Qualtrics, with a message of "We’re having trouble loading projects and programs. Please check your network connection and try again."</div>

<div>Confluence users have been encountering performance issues. IT staff are working with the vendor to address the cause and are monitoring the situation.</div>

<div>Instructure, the Canvas LMS vendor, will be performing 2 maintenance events on Thursday, October 2, 2025, beginning at 4:00 am EDT. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

<div>On Friday, September 26, from 9:00 to 9:15am, CIT will deploy a configuration policy to all managed Windows and macOS devices in the university fleet to ensure the Beyond Identity authenticator continues to work without changes to the user experience.

<div>On Friday, September 26, from 7-11pm, the Confluence vendor (Contegix/Valiantys) will perform an upgrade to the Confluence Wiki application. Once the upgrade is complete, CIT will verify that the update was successful.</div>

<div>On Tuesday, September 30, at 8am, CIT will update the password policy to change from passwords to 16-character passphrases. Users don’t need to change their passwords right away, but the new rules will apply the next time they change or reset their passwords.&nbsp;<br><br></div><ul><li>A passphrase consists of 4 to 7 words. It may include spaces. Special characters are no longer required.

<div>On Thursday, September 25 at 5pm, CIT will begin using new Zoom notification features to alert meeting hosts about at-risk meetings automatically. These automated notices are sent by Zoom when it detects publicly listed meetings or webinars that lack advanced security settings—such as authentication requirements or waiting rooms—beyond the mandatory passcode.&nbsp;<br><br></div>

<div>&nbsp;On Friday, September 26, 2025, CIT will implement two new security features to strengthen authentication for Microsoft Admin Portals, including <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/get-started/azure-portal">Azure</a>, <a href="https://entra.microsoft.com/#home">Entra</a>, <a href="