Financial Information Services

<div>Update: There continue to be reports of connection issues. IT staff are working with the vendor.&nbsp;<br><br>The CUV PN head-ends were rebooted at 9:10am and all sessions were disconnected and unavailable for approximately 10 minutes. Anyone who uses CU VPN should attempt to re-connect. Several attempts may be necessary.&nbsp;<br><br>The Cornell community may be unable to connect to CU VPN at this time. Some people who attempt to use CU VPN are receiving the error "Failed to create session manager entry."&nbsp;</div>

The legacy Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) is temporarily unavailable. Most Cornell community members will not be affected as only a small number of accounts are on the legacy ADFS.

<div>On Friday, August 7, 2026, between 4:00am and 7:00am, an off-cycle migration with outage may impact the availability of PeopleSoft Student Center, Faculty Center, Student Essentials, ePay, Student Admissions, Contributor Relations, Financial Aid, Student Financials, Student Records, and Student Employment (PSES). This is a migration of online and batch objects to PeopleSoft Production (PSPROD).</div>

<div>Kuali Financial System (KFS) and eShop will be down for a patch release this Sunday, August 9, 2026, from 6am to 12pm EDT.</div>

<div>Between 5pm and 6pm on Thursday, August 13, 2026, the new Zoom User Interface (UI) experience will be enabled for the Cornell Zoom web portal (https://cornell.zoom.us). This UI update changes the web portal experience to be closer to the UI of the Zoom desktop app.&nbsp;<br><br>The vendor is implementing this change for all users on August 26th, 2026. We are triggering the change ahead of schedule in order to prevent the forced vendor change taking place in the middle of the first week of classes.</div>

<div>REMINDER: The Cornell University WiFi system will be unavailable for 10-15 minutes on Wednesday August 12 at 5am ET to apply routine firmware patching.

<div>The public web interfaces to Lyris List Manager will permanently shut down.

<div>The SCCM Cloud Management Gateway (CMG) is currently offline. Cornell IT staff are investigating. Imaging/Operating System Deployment (OSD) and patching are not affected. Any managed windows clients can connect to the Cornell VPN for software or settings.</div>