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UIS Service Desk launches 24/7 live text chat and phone support

We now offer 24/7 support for common IT service queries – such as password resets and MFA, wifi setup, and printing issues – via the new live text chat window on the home page.

eduroam public certificate change on Wednesday 2 October

We're changing the public certificate used by eduroam at 07:30 on Wednesday 2 October.

PoP switches: scheduled firmware updates, 16–27 Sept

UIS will be applying firmware updates to all point-of-presence (PoP) switches before the start of Michaelmas Term 2024. There will be 10 to 15 minutes downtime at 03:00 on the day of the upgrade.

DMARC records for MMDs not pointed to UIS M365 tenancy

This message is for IT staff who manage an email system using a domain under the cam.ac.uk domain that doesn’t point to the University’s Microsoft365 tenancy. Temporary flag limiting DMARC application to some mail domains As part of our work to tighten SPF/DMARC records for the cam.ac.uk domain, UIS has added a temporary...

UIS VPN and Managed VPN service certificate update

The UIS VPN and Managed VPN service will standardise on automated SSL certificate replacements starting on 4 August. Some Linux users may need to take action.

Shared network drives: planned maintenance on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 July

Shared network drives will be unavailable on Saturday 27 July 2024 between 09:00 and 17:00.

Annual archiving and deletion of Panopto content

The annual archive of Panopto lecture capture content has been scheduled for 3 September. Live content created on or before 31 August 2024 will be moved into the Panopto archive. Last year’s archive, containing content created on or before 31 August 2023, will be permanently deleted on 31 August 2024.

University Wireless Service: essential maintenance, July 2024

We will be carrying out essential maintenance to the University Wireless Service on several dates in July. This is to implement updates, upgrades and fixes. The service may be interrupted during these maintenance periods.

Improvements to the Microsoft Authenticator app in August 2024

The Microsoft Authenticator app will show you more information when you are using multi-factor authentication (MFA) to log in with your University account from 1 August 2024.

SharePoint: changes to permissions for new sites from 2 July 2024

We are changing the permission options for our SharePoint sites. From 2 July, SharePoint administrators will not be able to choose the ‘Everyone’ or ‘Everyone except external’ groups when setting permissions on new sites.

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UIS Service Desk launches 24/7 live text chat and phone support

27 September 2024

We now offer 24/7 support for common IT service queries – such as password resets and MFA, wifi setup, and printing issues – via the new live text chat window on the home page.

eduroam public certificate change on Wednesday 2 October

24 September 2024

We're changing the public certificate used by eduroam at 07:30 on Wednesday 2 October.

PoP switches: scheduled firmware updates, 16–27 Sept

29 August 2024

UIS will be applying firmware updates to all point-of-presence (PoP) switches before the start of Michaelmas Term 2024. There will be 10 to 15 minutes downtime at 03:00 on the day of the upgrade.

UIS Service Desk launches 24/7 live text chat and phone support

eduroam public certificate change on Wednesday 2 October

PoP switches: scheduled firmware updates, 16–27 Sept

DMARC records for MMDs not pointed to UIS M365 tenancy

UIS VPN and Managed VPN service certificate update

Shared network drives: planned maintenance on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 July

Annual archiving and deletion of Panopto content

University Wireless Service: essential maintenance, July 2024

Improvements to the Microsoft Authenticator app in August 2024

SharePoint: changes to permissions for new sites from 2 July 2024

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